This week, Trump has said Musk would have to "close up shop and head back home to South Africa" if he halted government subsidies to his companies, and then later added that his administration would "have to take a look" at deporting Musk.

President Donald Trump said he will 'have to take a look' at deporting Elon Musk to his native South Africa as their fight reached new heights.

After Musk threatened to form a new political party, the president fired back with a nativist attack, accusing the billionaire of being a subsidy addict and threatening to have his own companies investigated.