President Donald J. Trump voiced his disappointment Thursday over Elon Musk’s increasingly hostile stance toward the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a hallmark piece of conservative reform legislation backed by the Trump administration and passed by the House earlier this week.

“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” President Trump said from the Oval Office ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “He hasn’t said bad about me personally, but I’m sure that’ll be next. But I’m very disappointed … I’ve helped Elon a lot.”

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, championed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, represents a sweeping, long-overdue restructuring of federal priorities. The bill slashes Biden-era green energy handouts, guts bloated regulatory frameworks, and strengthens America’s fiscal future — all core goals of the Trump agenda in his historic second term.

But Musk, a former Trump administration official who briefly served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has turned his fire on the bill since resigning from his position last Friday. Using his platform X — formerly Twitter — Musk launched a barrage of criticisms, calling the legislation a “disgusting” failure and demanding lawmakers “KILL the BILL.”

Sources familiar with Musk’s motivations claim he is especially incensed over the bill’s termination of electric vehicle tax credits — benefits that heavily subsidized his company Tesla. The legislation also includes critical reforms to how federal space contracts are awarded, a change that could impact Musk’s other enterprise, SpaceX.

The Tesla CEO has taken a markedly self-interested turn, seemingly placing corporate gain above national priorities. Despite having worked closely with Trump on the bill while in office, Musk only began denouncing it after stepping down, a fact President Trump pointedly noted.

“I’m very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill,” Trump remarked. “He never had a problem until right after he left.”

The President also drew a parallel between Musk and other former Trump appointees who left the administration on good terms, only to later join the ranks of its critics.

“He’s not the first. People leave my administration and they love us and then at some point they miss it so badly, and some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile,” Trump said. “I don’t know what it is, it’s sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it. … The glamor is gone, the whole world is different, and they become hostile.”

Trump’s remarks underscore a growing disconnect between some of his former allies in the tech elite and the America First agenda. While Musk’s break from the administration is notable, it also serves as a reminder that the movement is bigger than any one individual — and the American people, not billionaires, will decide the future.

With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act now advancing toward the Senate, the fight to restore constitutional governance, protect taxpayers, and dismantle the progressive administrative state is far from over.