特朗普其後在Truth Social發文:「Elon『讓人厭煩』,我請他離開,我取消了強制所有人購買沒人想要的電動車的強制令(他幾個月前就知道我要這麼做!),然後他就瘋了!(Elon was “wearing thin,” I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!)」、「節省我們預算中數十億美元的最簡單方法,就是終止Elon的政府補貼和合同。我一直很驚訝拜登居然沒這麼做!(The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!)」
所謂的政府合同,投資界即時聯想到的是,SpaceX與美國太空總署的合作,馬斯克亦因此回應,「這真是愈來愈精彩了,來吧,讓我開心一下……(This just gets better and better. Go ahead, make my day …)」。
馬斯克即時啟動龍飛船退役 馬斯克其後發文,指鑑於總統關於取消我政府合同的聲明, @SpaceX將立即開始退役龍飛船(In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately)。