After the incident, Musk also had a verbal showdown with U.S. Treasury Secretary Bowman.

On Sunday evening local time, Musk commented on social media that Bowman was a puppet of Soros. He is a student majoring in political science and even can't learn math. A year ago, my public opinion poll results were very positive, which is why Trump valued me so much.

Musk made these comments under a video of an interview with Bowman posted by an X user. In the interview, Bowman stated that the principles of DOGE are very popular, but if you look at the public opinion polls, you will find that Elon is not popular. "He believes that the boards of Musk's companies are not so enthusiastic about CEO of Tesla announcing his new 'American Party'."

Clash at the White House, the feud between Musk and Bowman

During Musk's tenure in Trump's government, Bowman and Musk had multiple conflicts.

Wall Street Observer previously mentioned that in one argument, Bowman, who is usually gentle, was completely enraged and shouted "Forget it", while Musk retorted loudly "Say it again, louder". The conflict extended from the Oval Office to the corridor, and Italian Prime Minister Meloni, who was visiting Trump at the time, was startled, and it eventually required assistants to intervene to separate them.

The argument escalated to personal attacks. Bowman accused Musk of exaggerating and making no progress on the DOGE budget cuts. Musk retaliated by calling Bowman a "puppet of Soros" and mocking his past disastrous hedge fund operations.

The direct trigger for the argument was the dispute over the appointment of the IRS leader. Musk had hoped to appoint Gary Shapley as the acting director of the IRS, while Bowman favored appointing Michael Faulkender, the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Ultimately, Bowman's candidate received Trump's support, seen as a signal that Trump and Musk's relationship was cooling down.

This time, Musk's verbal showdown with Bowman comes at a time when Musk and Trump are experiencing intense conflicts over fiscal policy, and their relationship has deteriorated again.

Trump recently signed a $3.3 trillion spending "Big Beautiful Act" that was publicly criticized by Musk, who claimed the bill would exacerbate the U.S. debt crisis and threatened to fund opponents of any Congress members supporting the bill in the primary elections.

On July 5th local time, Musk announced the establishment of a new political party, "The American Party," independent of the Republican and Democratic parties, and claimed that the party would represent the "80% of middle voters" in American society, striving to gain a seat in Congress through elections.

The next day, President Trump was asked about his view on billionaire Musk's announcement of establishing a new political party. Trump said Musk "could have some fun with it," but he considered it "absurd."

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