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03-07-2025
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump responded to questions about Elon Musk, specifically if the Tesla CEO could be facing deportation, with the president responding, “We’ll take a look.”
Trump answered questions from reporters on Tuesday, July 1, as Musk continues to criticize the president’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, the legislation narrowly passed in the Senate on Tuesday.
‘He (Musk) is upset,” Trump said to reporters. “He’s upset that he’s losing his EV mandate and he’s very upset about things but you know, he could lose a lot more than that.”
Trump also said he would look into deporting Musk.
“We might have to put DOGE on Elon,” Trump said. “You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.”
Musk has warned that he would boost primary challenges to defeat Republican lawmakers who vote for the legislation, and attacked the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” with posts on his official X account on June 30.
“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!” Musk wrote “and they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”
Yes, Musk is a US citizen. Musk has been a US citizen since 2002, according to a 2023 biography of Musk by journalist Walter Isaacson, media reported.
Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Canadian mother and a South African father. He moved to Canada at 17 and came to the US in 1992 to study at the University of Pennsylvania, according to PolitiFact.
US citizens cannot be deported, though the government can attempt to take away the citizenship of a naturalized citizen if it can show the naturalization was gained through fraud, according to the Immigrant Defense Project. For instance, if a person did not disclose an arrest or conviction on the naturalization application, they could be vulnerable to deportation.
Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and a former top White House adviser, has pointed to the bill’s projections to raise the national debt by $3.3 trillion over the next decade as the reason for his hostility but Trump has claimed Musk only opposes the bill because the legislation would end a program under former President Joe Biden that offers consumer tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles.
On his first day in office, Trump took executive action to end the so-called “electric vehicle mandate,” Trump’s phrase for an Environmental Protection Agency rule that required auto manufacturers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half in new light- and medium-duty vehicles beginning in 2027.
“Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one,” Trump wrote in his social media post.
“Elon is very upset that the EV mandate is going to be terminated,” Trump later told reporters. Trump and Musk’s bromance ends after personal attacks over criticism of tax bill.
Born in South Africa, Musk became a naturalized US citizen in 2002 after previously gaining Canadian citizenship through his mother. Musk obtained an exchange visa allowing him to study in the U.S. and later a work visa prior to becoming a citizen. (Int’l News Desk)
