Elon Musk makes spiteful move against Trump and NASA

Elon Musk has just taken his new feud with President Trump to the next level, essentially promising to strand NASA's astronauts on the International Space Station.

The SpaceX CEO posted on X Thursday that he has decided to decommission his company's Dragon spacecraft 'immediately.'

The move was in response to Trump posting on Truth Social that he would consider terminating all of the US government's contracts with Musk's commercial space company.

Just two months ago, Musk's Dragon spacecraft came to the rescue of astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded on board the ISS for 286 days.

The decommissioning of the Dragon capsule would leave NASA without a proven American spacecraft capable of sending and retrieving astronauts from the space station.

There are currently four NASA astronauts on the ISS after the rescue of Williams and Wilmore. It is unknown if Musk would allow astronauts to return to Earth on board the Dragon capsule still attached to the station.

NASA also has a contract with Boeing, who is working on fixing their Starliner spacecraft, but the project has been plagued with problems that have left the craft untrustworthy for carrying humans to space at this time.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Musk and SpaceX for comment on the status of the Dragon program.

The spat between Musk and Trump broke out after the SpaceX boss voiced his opposition to the Republican-led 'Big Beautiful Bill.'

The budget reconciliation bill will reportedly add trillions to the national deficit, a move that enraged Musk and prompted his departure from the Trump Administration.

Musk had been overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which had reported saving the US tens of billions of dollars on so-called wasteful government projects.

DOGE's goal has been to get that number into the trillions.

Following his departure, a war of words broke out between Musk and the president over social media.

On Thursday, Musk claimed that Trump is 'in the Epstein files,' dramatically escalating the tensions between the billionaires.

Musk also suggested that Trump should be impeached and replaced with 40-year-old Vice President JD Vance.

Moments before the Epstein charge, Trump had taken to Truth Social and said he had asked Musk to leave his administration and said the billionaire went 'CRAZY!'

The president then found a new way of saving money in the federal budget, posting that he could cut 'Billions and Billions of Dollars' by ending the government's partnership with both of Musk's companies - SpaceX and Tesla.

SpaceX has been awarded over $17 billion in government contracts since 2015, according to ABC News. Much of that money comes from NASA and the Department of Defense.

Tesla has received approximately $1 billion according to the latest figures from February.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, developed as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, is a reusable spacecraft designed to transport cargo and astronauts to the ISS.

It consists of a reusable capsule for the astronauts and an expendable trunk module, launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

There have been two main variants of the capsule: the Dragon 1, which only carried cargo and has been retired, and the Dragon 2, which carries astronauts and cargo to space.

A third variant, Dragon XL, has been in development as part of NASA's Lunar Gateway project, but it's not yet operational.

Dragon XL would be capable of carrying cargo to a new base on the moon. It's unknown if the project will be cancelled as part of Musk's declaration to decommission the Dragon capsules.