- President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are seemingly at odds again.
- Trump said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer — who has been heavily criticized by Musk — was doing a “very good job.”
- It comes after Musk criticized Trump’s Stargate venture for AI infrastructure.
Days after Elon Musk criticized President Donald Trump’s Stargate plan, the pair are seemingly at odds again — and this time, it’s over British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
In an interview with the BBC on board Air Force One, Trump praised Starmer, who leads the UK’s left-leaning Labour Party, saying he had done a “very good job thus far” and that they had a “very good relationship.”
“I get along with him well. I like him a lot,” Trump said, adding that they would be holding a call “over the next 24 hours.”
Musk — a close Trump ally who is leading the Department of Government Efficiency — has frequently leveled heavy criticism at Starmer.
Earlier this month, Musk called for the prime minister to resign and face charges for “his complicity in the worst mass crime in the history of Britain,” referring to a grooming scandal in the UK.
He also repeated criticism of Starmer’s time in his position as the UK’s top prosecutor, saying he did too little to combat the grooming gangs.
“Starmer was complicit in the RAPE OF BRITAIN when he was head of Crown Prosecution for 6 years,” the Tesla CEO wrote on X.
Starmer has responded to such comments without explicitly naming Musk, saying certain people were “spreading lies and misinformation” about the scandal.
Following violent far-right protests in the UK in the summer, Musk also said the UK’s police response seemed “onesided,” and he called Starmer “two-tier Keir” — a suggestion that the country has a “two-tier policing” policy that treats far-right protesters more harshly than minority groups.
Musk has also accused Starmer of creating a financial crisis in the UK and said that “nobody trusts” him.
Trump told the BBC that while Starmer was “liberal, which is a bit different from me,” he thought he was “a very good person.”
“He’s represented his country in terms of philosophy,” he said. “I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him.”
It comes days after Musk criticized Trump’s $500 billion Stargate venture for AI infrastructure — a joint plan by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX that the president announced earlier this week. Trump called the plan “the largest AI infrastructure project in history.”
Musk soon took to X to respond to a post from OpenAI that said the venture would “begin deploying $100 billion immediately,” saying it did not “actually have the money” it had pledged.
“They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote, adding that he had it “on good authority” that SoftBank had “well under $10B secured.”
At a press conference on Thursday, Trump told reporters that he wasn’t bothered by Musk’s criticism of the project.
“He hates one of the people in the deal,” Trump said, likely referring to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, with whom Musk has been locked in a long-running personal feud.
