CNN’s Bash: I Just Got Off the Phone with Trump, He Told Me He’s ‘Not Even Thinking About Elon … the Poor Guy’s Got a Problem’

BERMAN: “Joining us now, someone who just got off the phone with the president, CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash joins us now by phone. Dana, what did he tell you?”
BASH: “Good morning, John. Well, he said that he‘s — well, here‘s exactly what he said: ‘I’m not even thinking about Elon. He‘s got a problem. The poor guy‘s got a problem.’ He said he won‘t be speaking to him for a while, but he said he wishes Elon Musk well. It was a short conversation, he was — didn‘t seem very exercised about it. And the interesting thing is — of course, the context of this is how many people who are in both men‘s orbits are trying to broker a peace deal, so to speak, and trying to get them to talk because of the concern about the fallout in so many directions. I mean, the blast radius from this fallout is really, really big and very wide. But right now, he said he‘s not interested in that and he‘s moving on. And in typical Donald Trump fashion, John, he, before I even asked the question, wanted to talk about what he wanted the story line to be today, about the economy. He was talking about gas prices. He said he was waiting for the jobs numbers to come out, which I think is about two minutes from now. So, as he has done his entire career, not just political, but since he was a businessman, trying to push out the narrative and push out the story that he thinks is the most advantageous for him. And he thinks that‘s the economy now. But, of course, we did briefly talk about Elon Musk, and the headline is, he says he has no plans to talk to him right now.”
BERMAN: “Yeah. Just to reiterate, again, because the story overnight has been a whole slew of people working to tone things down and to de-escalate, and he‘s telling you, ‘I don‘t want to talk to him right now,’ and then he also threw that elbow saying that, you know, the poor guy has got a problem. So, you know, if Elon Musk is waking up this morning, he might read that, I imagine, as a new insult.”
BASH: “He might. He also said, ‘I won‘t be speaking to him for a while, I guess, but I wish him well.’ He wasn‘t — he wasn‘t exercised. He wasn‘t — he didn‘t sound angry, he sounded I guess more resigned to where their relationship is right now. But he obviously is very well aware of the impact that this is having. And that‘s why I found it interesting that even though he seemed to try to put a stop to any speculation or, as you were saying, the entreaties from so many people for the two of them to to make up, he was still trying to kind of shape the narrative about what is coming out of the White House. It‘s not an easy thing to do right now, because literally the entire world is focused on this remarkable feud between the president of the United States and Elon Musk.”