According to a statement, the head of Tesla and SpaceX accused the minister of foreign affairs of having not yet fired "anyone". Trump confirmed that the billionaire, responsible for the reduction in federal personnel, and the foreign minister "completely agree". The New York Times reported that the two men seriously quarreled on Thursday during a cabinet meeting.
President of the USA Donald Trump told a journalist who asked a question about the article in the New York Times on the conflict between Elon Musk and the foreign minister, Mike Pompeo, that "there was no confrontation." In his defense, the minister stated in a report that he pointed out the voluntary dismissal of a significant number of employees in his department, before ironically asking: "And was I one of them?"
