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After financing Trump's campaign in 2024 and joining his administration, Elon Musk experienced a public break with the president in the summer of 2025 due to criticism of budgetary policy.
After their spectacular breakup in the summer of 2025, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are now showing their reconciliation. Thursday October 8, 2026, in Washington, the American president presented the boss of Tesla and SpaceX with the National Medal of Science, during a summit entitled “Science: A new golden age”. A distinction which confirms the return of the billionaire to the entourage of the Head of State.
“Elon Musk is our modern-day Thomas Edison,” declared Donald Trump, before calling the entrepreneur a “national treasure.” The Republican president continued in a personal tone: “Elon, I want to congratulate you. You are my friend, and a truly, truly exceptional person. »
Checkered relationships
However, relations between the two men experienced a major crisis at the start of the summer of 2025. After having largely financed Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2024, Elon Musk joined his administration to supervise federal spending reductions. Their collaboration ended in a public falling out, caused in particular by the billionaire's criticisms of the president's budgetary policy.
Since then, the head of SpaceX has gradually reconnected with Washington. The Pentagon recently entrusted him with a mission aimed at identifying the technologies and weapons necessary for future conflicts involving the United States. Elon Musk also participated last week in the signing of a code of conduct on artificial intelligence at the White House. In September, he was among the guests at the state dinner organized in honor of Xi Jinping.
Other tech personalities rewarded
The ceremony also rewarded several major figures in American technology. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, Sergei Brin, co-founder of Google, and Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, received the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell, founder of the eponymous IT group, and Satya Nadella, boss of Microsoft, were recognized with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
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Donald Trump himself received a frame containing the National Medal of Science awarded posthumously in 1983 to his uncle John Trump. A former physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the latter occupies a special place in the American president's family discourse. Donald Trump regularly evokes this connection to refer to his own “high intelligence quotient”.
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