Texas AG to Newsmax: Trump-Musk ‘Awesome’ Together, Feud ‘Unfortunate’

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told Newsmax Friday “it’s unfortunate” that President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk are having such a public falling out because they accomplished “so many good things together.”

“It’s a little shocking,” Paxton said on “Wake Up America.” “I’m fans of both of them. I think we obviously got a great president; Elon Musk is a Texan doing amazing things in Texas and, really, for the whole country. So, a little shocking. I wish it wasn’t happening publicly, and I wish they were still doing things together because together, they were awesome.”

Musk had been leading Trump’s federal cost-cutting effort at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) until last week, when he abruptly announced his departure from the White House.

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