President Donald Trump says he's "very disappointed" with Elon Musk after he slammed the Republican tax bill and told reporters the tech billionaire who recently left his administration has "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
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00:00I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people.
00:08He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden he had a problem.
00:12And he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate because that's billions and billions of dollars.
00:18And it really is unfair. We want to have cars of all types. Electric, we want to have electric, but we want to have gasoline, combustion.
00:27We want to have different, we want to have hybrids. We want to have all, we want to be able to sell everything.
00:32And if you saw the statements he made about me, which I'm sure you can get very easily, it's very fresh on tape.
00:38He said the most beautiful things about me. And he hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next.
00:44But I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot. A lot of good things are happening in this room.
00:49And I'll tell you, it's not, he's not the first. People leave my administration and they love us.
00:59And then at some point they miss it so badly. And some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile.
01:07I don't know what it is. It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it.
01:11But we have it with others too. They leave and they wake up in the morning and the glamour's gone.
01:18The whole world is different and they become hostile. I don't know what it is.
01:23Someday you'll write a book about it and you'll let us know.