‘He’s a snake’: Musk jabs at Trump adviser who fueled messy presidential breakup
Sergio Gor helped facilitate the termination of Jared Isaacman’s nomination for NASA head — a pick Musk had pushed.
By GISELLE RUHIYYIH EWING
06/19/2025 11:12 AM EDT
Elon Musk may have stopped sparring with President Donald Trump online, but the former presidential adviser and megabacker isn’t done publicly sniping at members of Trump’s administration.
The former DOGE chief slammed Sergio Gor, a top Trump adviser who played a role in his split with the president, bashing him as a “snake” late Wednesday night.
“He’s a snake,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X, replying to a New York Post storyreporting that Gor, who serves as the director of the White House personnel office, has not himself been properly vetted.
According to the Post, Gor has not submitted the requisite paperwork to obtain a permanent security clearance, even as he presides over the screening process for thousands of White House staffers.
But the White House maintained that Gor has an active security clearance and is “fully compliant” with the necessary requirements.
“Mr. Gor is fully compliant with all applicable ethical and legal obligations. His security clearance is active, any insinuation he doesn’t maintain a clearance is false,” White House counsel David Warrington said.
Vice President JD Vance also stood by Gor, lauding his “effort to ensure committed, principled America First advocates staff the President’s government,” adding for good measure, “he’s done a great job, and will continue to do so.”
Tensions between the two advisers had long simmered, with Musk refusing to work with Gor after a March Cabinet meeting inwhich the billionaire clashed with other Cabinet members over cuts to their agencies, prompting Trump toclarify that agency heads had authority over their departments— not DOGE’s Musk.
But the situation bubbled over when Gor helped facilitate the termination of Jared Isaacman’s nomination for NASA head — a pick Musk had pushed.
The decision to pull Isaacman’s nomination appeared to be the last straw for Musk, who shortly thereafter launched a social media spree attacking the president and the “Big Beautiful Bill” he was drumming up support to push through Congress.
At the time, Trump pointed to his choice to pull Isaacman’s nomination as a motivating factor in Musk’s decision to lash out against the president.
The fight, which came on the heels of Musk’s slated departure from his government duties, marked the nail in the coffin for the relationship between the president and his one-time “first buddy.”
But tensions seem to have calmed between the two men after their massive online meltdown, with Trump saying he had “no hard feelings” for his former ally, and Musk issuing an apology on X, saying he “went too far” in his attacks on the president during their fight. (That is not an apology! There is no sincerity, or request for forgiveness.)
Trump, in particular, had sought to downplay the spat, as the White House worried that the public squabble was drawing attention away from administration priorities.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/19/musk-sergio-gor-feud-00414246
One of the main reasons I will never work for the government, huge egos and divisions.