Rumours of Musk and Trump’s friendship breakdown are ‘lies’, Eric Trump says

Eric Trump has dismissed reports of a imaginable breakdown successful the narration betwixt his father’s incoming medication and Elon Musk arsenic “lies”.

The businessman, who was visiting his family’s 2 play courses successful Scotland which helium runs, said his begetter “loves” and “adores” Mr Musk, who helium considers a “super genius”.

Mr Musk, 1 of the world’s richest men, is simply a vocal campaigner for Donald Trump and donated millions of pounds to his statesmanlike campaign.

The billionaire proprietor of Tesla and X volition co-head the US Department of Government Efficiency – nicknamed Doge aft Mr Musk’s gag cryptocurrency – which is tasked with cutting concern regulations and authorities spending.

US media reported that Mr Musk has been highly adjacent to the president-elect since his predetermination win, attending telephone calls with satellite leaders specified arsenic Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

At 1 point, the president-elect joked, “I can’t get him retired of here”, successful a notation to Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Florida wherever the SpaceX proprietor has been staying.

Reported besides suggested Mr Musk had had a heated statement with 1 of Mr Trump’s astir elder aides, and NBC quality reported the tech tycoon “may already beryllium overstaying his invited successful Trump’s orbit”.

He's going to the motorboat of Elon's newest rocket down successful Texas, and they're going to spell ticker it blast into outer abstraction together

Eric Trump

Asked astir the reports, Eric Trump told the PA quality agency: “What media reports would adjacent remotely suggest that? None that I’ve ever seen.

“I don’t know. All I tin archer you is that I went to (mixed martial arts event) UFC 309 with Elon Musk the different night, and I was with my begetter and Elon, and we were eating cheeseburgers and we were laughing and we were having a large clip successful the greenish room.

“If determination is immoderate animosity, arsenic a feline who’s astir some of them a tremendous amount, I’ve ne'er seen it once.

“Listen, the media spews a batch of nonsense. I tin archer you, there’s nary animosity betwixt my begetter and Elon. My begetter loves Elon, and Elon loves my father.”

The president-elect’s lad said helium had “never seen idiosyncratic much excited” arsenic Mr Musk is to co-head the Doge alongside chap billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy.

He added: “I tin archer you, there’s ne'er been idiosyncratic who’s been much pumped up to execute a ngo of cutting the nonsense retired of our government, cutting the wasteful spending retired of our government, than Elon.

“My begetter loves him. He adores him. He thinks he’s a ace genius. In fact, arsenic we’re speaking, he’s going to the motorboat of Elon’s newest rocket down successful Texas, and they’re going to spell ticker it blast into outer abstraction together.

“So immoderate media study that says they person been thing but accelerated friends is conscionable the media doing what the media usually does, which is, frankly, lie.”