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As Feud Continues, Trump Wants to Dump His White House Tesla

&NewLine;<p>A bitter President Trump is planning on parting ways with all traces of Elon Musk&comma; including the Tesla he bought at full price on March 11&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The president is now looking to sell or give away his red Tesla&comma; a White House official confirmed on Friday&comma; June 6&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The vehicle is parked in the White House lot and was meant for staff use since Trump is not permitted to drive due to strict security protocols&period; The president bought the Tesla in a show of support for Musk&comma; whose vehicles&comma; charging stations&comma; and dealerships were the object of attacks by far-left hooligans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re going to catch them&semi; they&&num;8217&semi;re bad guys&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump said at the time in reference to perps taking flamethrowers and Molotov cocktails to the cars and infrastructure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re going to catch you&comma; and you’re going to go through hell&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Model S&nbsp&semi;retails at a starting price of about &dollar;80&comma;000&comma; although the version the president bought appeared to cost more than &dollar;100&comma;000&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The 78-year-old also claimed in March to have bought&nbsp&semi;his granddaughter Kai a CyberTruck&comma; which he said had the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;coolest design&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But that was all before the bitter breakup between the two men&period; Now&comma; any good feeling between the pair of billionaires is likely gone after Musk stepped up his criticism of the Trump-backed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Big&comma; Beautiful Bill” — and then called for the impeachment of the president and a new political party to challenge the GOP&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; as the very public feud between arguably the two most powerful men in the world continues&comma; Trump said over the weekend that there would be &&num;8220&semi;serious consequences&&num;8221&semi; if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP&&num;8217&semi;s sweeping budget bill&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If he does&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;ll have to pay the consequences for that&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump told NBC News in a phone interview&comma; but declined to share what those consequences would be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that&comma;” he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The president also said he has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk after a feud between the two men erupted into public view earlier this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No&comma;” Trump said when asked if he had any wish to do so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Asked if he thought his relationship with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was over&comma; Trump said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would assume so&comma; yeah&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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