One of billionaire tycoon Elon Musk’s former tech friends is ominously predicting that the world’s richest man isn’t finished with President Trump despite their feud earlier this month fading away.
Philip Low, a neuroscientist who founded NeuroVigil and had a falling out with Musk, argued that Trump’s former right-hand man doesn’t move on from big fights with people.
“I’ve had my share of blowouts with Elon over the years,” Low told Politico. “Knowing Elon the way I know him, I do think he’s going to do everything to damage the president.”
Earlier this month, Musk, 54, went ballistic on Trump after his frustrations with the deficit impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act seemingly reached a breaking point.
During his fiery rhetorical haymakers against Trump, the former Department of Government Efficiency boss argued that without his help, “Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”
Philip Low, as seen at a TED Talk in 2009, fired Elon Musk from the advisory board of NeuroVigil. Youtube/TEDMED
Elon Musk has kept a lower political profile in the days since his blow-up against President Trump. APHe blasted Trump’s marquee megabill as “pork-filled” and a “disgusting abomination,” while also calling for the creation of a new political party. Musk also dropped a “big bomb,” alleging that the president was in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a since-deleted post.
“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” Musk later posted on X.
Trump has seemingly let bygones be bygones as well, calling his onetime billionaire buddy a “wonderful guy” who’s “gonna do well always.”
“He’s a smart guy, and he actually went and campaigned with me and this and that, but he got a little bit upset and that wasn’t appropriate,” Trump told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” in a pre-taped interview late last week.
But Low surmised that the public moves by the two moguls to bury the hatchet has been “purely cosmetic.”
“He has been humiliated,” he contended. “The whole idea that Elon is going to be on his side and help woo Congress and invest in election campaigns for right-wing judges — Elon might do all of that, but deep down, it’s over.”
President Trump later praised Elon Musk as “smart,” shrugging off the billionaire’s eruption. APThe neuroscientist mused that Trump “tends to make up with his former sparring partners like [Steve] Bannon a bit more easily than Elon does” — but suggested that’s not his experience with Musk.
The SpaceX and Tesla mogul invested in NeuroVigil, which developed iBrain, a device that is designed to give patients a means of getting a non-invasive electroencephalogram to monitor their brain activity. He also joined its advisory board.
By 2021, Musk sought to get off NeuroVigil’s advisory board, and Low fired him, which ensured the billionaire couldn’t exercise his stock options.
“I fired him with cause after he had admitted not participating as an advisor. A consequence of my firing him was that he could not get [to] exercise his stock options,” Low told The Post.
At that point, Musk had formed his own neurotechnology company, Neuralink.
Low went on a public diatribe against Musk earlier this year, penning a blistering Facebook post ripping into his former friend.
Over the weekend, Musk re-upped his criticism of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as the Senate GOP worked on advancing the legislative bundle.
Elon Musk stepped down from his role as a special government employee late last month. AP“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!” Musk raged on X Monday.
