Trump Vows He Will Look At Deporting Billionaire Elon Musk To South Africa

Elon Musk (left) and Donald Trump

Source: Africa Publicity

America President, Donald Trump, has vowed his government will “have to take a look” at deporting billionaire, Elon Musk to South Africa as their fight over his “Big Beautiful Bill” reignited. 

On Monday afternoon, June 30, 2025, Musk, a South African national and a naturalized American citizen posted on X “It is obvious with insane spending of this bill…that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!”.

The Monday post followed several other posts Musk has made on X, blasting Replicans over the “Big Beautiful Bill”.

He has been arguing the bill was adding more debt.

Addressing journalists outside the White House on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, President Trump was asked if he will deport the South African-born billionaire who is a naturalized U.S. citizen and said: “I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look.”

Daily Mail’s Emily Goodin reported that Trump says he might have to “put DOGE on Elon…DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon,” referring to the cost-cutting agency that was the brainchild of Musk.

But responding to a video of that Trump attack, Musk wrote “so tempting to escalate this,” but he would “refrain for now,” though he ominously added, “Physics sees through all lies perfectly.”

Musk attacked the spending bill in a series of posts on X on Monday night and early Tuesday morning, saying: “Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending,” and backed the mega bill “will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”

He then tweeted, “If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” as he bashed what he described as the “Democrat-Republican uniparty.”

Meanwhile, in a post on his Truth Social platform, the president responded to Musk’s criticism of his signature spending bill by threatening to scrap government subsidies provided to the billionaire’s companies. Trump wrote: “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.” Trump then claimed: “Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE.” The president suggested the Department of Government Efficiency—which was previously led by Musk—should “take a good, hard, look” at the subsidies offered to companies like SpaceX and Tesla. Musk shot back on X, by daring Trump to slash the subsidies: “I am literally saying CUT IT ALL. Now.”