Elon Musk's White House Tenure Had 'troublesome Ending,' Wh Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles Says

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles lamented successful a caller question and reply that Elon Musk's narration pinch President Donald Trump and nan management came to a "troublesome ending." 

"It seemed almost arsenic if he had a benignant of fatherly fixation pinch Donald Trump that I conjecture inevitably was going to rustle up astatine immoderate point. How did you spot that relationship?" New York Post columnist Miranda Devine asked Wiles aft they some agreed location was a "hiccup" pinch nan erstwhile caput of DOGE.

Wiles sat for a speech connected Devine's "Pod Force One" podcast, which was released connected Wednesday. Musk exited his role pinch nan Trump management successful May.

"Similar, nan president was very, very benignant to him. And Elon had truthful overmuch to connection us. He knew things we didn’t know, he knew group and technologies that we didn’t know. It was a awesome point erstwhile it was a awesome thing, and past it had a very troublesome ending," Wiles said. 

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk be a property convention successful nan Oval Office of nan White House successful Washington, D.C., May 30, 2025.  (REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo)

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Musk and Trump person traded barbs complete nan Trump-backed "Big, Beautiful Bill" arsenic nan erstwhile DOGE main has since launched different political party — nan "America Party."

The caller party, according to Musk’s posts, will target a fewer cardinal seats successful Congress. The extremity is to create a plaything bloc powerful capable to clasp nan equilibrium of powerfulness and extremity what Musk sees arsenic nan worst excesses of some Republicans and Democrats.

Musk called nan bill a "disgusting abomination."

"I don’t understand it. I don’t know," Wiles told Devine of nan pair's fallout. "I enjoyed moving pinch Elon. I deliberation he’s a fascinating personification and sees nan world differently. And I deliberation that’s astir apt what nan president saw, too, conscionable a small spot different than nan mean Joe, but certainly, came to not a bully ending."

Elon Musk speaks astatine nan Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, astatine nan Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, successful Oxon Hill, Md.  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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The president reacted to Musk's third-party announcement connected Monday.

"I deliberation it’s ridiculous to commencement a 3rd party," Trump told reporters earlier boarding Air Force One successful Bedminster, N.J. "We person a tremendous occurrence pinch nan Republican Party. The Democrats person mislaid their way, but it’s ever been a two-party system, and I deliberation starting a 3rd statement conscionable adds to confusion."

President Donald Trump gestures arsenic he boards Air Force One astatine Morristown Municipal Airport successful Morristown, N.J., Sunday, July 6, 2025, en way to Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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"It really seems to person been developed for 2 parties," nan president continued. "Third parties person ne'er worked. So, he tin person nosy pinch it, but I deliberation it’s ridiculous."

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Fox News' Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.