Elon Musk goes after White House aide who allegedly caused his rift with Trump: 'He's a snake'

WASHINGTON, DC: Billionaire Elon Musk may have just blown up what little remained of his former friendship with President Donald Trump.

The Tesla and SpaceX boss took to X (formerly Twitter) late Wednesday, June 17, to torch Sergio Gor, the top White House aide he believes single-handedly torpedoed his relationship with the commander-in-chief.

“He’s a snake,” Musk posted, reacting to a bombshell New York Post report that spilled details on the behind-the-scenes feud between him, Trump, and Gor.

Turns out, things between Musk and Trump had already been shaky before the tech mogul left his advisory post at the White House. But things didn't really fall apart until Gor — who's now running the presidential personnel office — stepped in and allegedly tanked Musk’s friend’s NASA nomination.

The NASA nomination that set Elon Musk and Trump on a feuding path

According to the Post, the real trigger came when Gor convinced Trump to yank the nomination of Musk’s close pal Jared Isaacman to lead NASA. The move came just days before the Senate was set to vote on it. Isaacman, a billionaire fintech exec and founder of Shift4, had been tapped for the top job on Musk's recommendation. But Gor apparently had other plans.

Sources say it was personal. One insider told the Post that Gor, 38, was holding a grudge after Musk “humiliated” him in front of other Cabinet members during a meeting when the Tesla chief was still heading the government’s cost-cutting task force, DOGE.

“Sergio was upset about Elon dressing him down at the meeting and said he was going to ‘get him,’” the source claimed.

Despite Musk still being on good terms with Trump at the time, Gor reportedly relished every Tesla stock dip. Once Musk’s special government employee status expired, Gor allegedly made his move by urging Trump to ditch Isaacman’s nomination.

“He was bragging to other people that he was going to get one last shot at Elon out the door. He was going to get Elon back for making him look bad,” another insider told the Post.

Jared Isaacman speaks out and Elon Musk strikes back

The White House publicly blamed Isaacman’s pulled nomination on his past political donations to Democrats. But Isaacman wasn’t buying it.

“There were some people that had some axes to grind, I guess, and I was a good, visible target,” he said after his nomination was pulled.

According to one former official speaking to Axios, Musk took it very personally. “Perception is reality, though, and I’m pretty sure Elon thought the NASA situation was a last insult. So here we are," they said.

Not long after the Isaacman debacle, Musk — who’d pumped more than $250 million into Trump’s reelection effort — went scorched-earth, publicly trying to sink Trump’s much-hyped “big beautiful” budget bill.

Who is White House aide Sergio Gor?

While Gor plays a crucial role inside Trump’s West Wing - after all, his job includes vetting around 4,000 political appointees. But he’s surprisingly elusive.

For starters, the Post reported that even five months into this Trump term, Gor hasn’t filed the paperwork for his own permanent security clearance. That’s the same background check form — called Standard Form 86 — that asks about everything from foreign contacts and finances to drug use and family ties.

To make things even murkier, nobody seems to know for sure where Gor was born. Earlier reports suggested Malta, but even officials there couldn’t verify it, per the Daily Beast.

What's more? Gor’s also a publishing mogul. Together with Donald Trump Jr, he co-founded a company that printed several of Trump’s post-presidency books, according to the New York Times.

Despite all the raised eyebrows, the Trump team is standing firmly behind him. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, “Sergio Gor is a trusted adviser to President Trump and he has played a critical role in helping President Trump staff the most talented administration in history.”

White House counsel David Warrington also pushed back against the Post’s reporting, saying Gor had completed the SF-86 form and currently holds an interim security clearance while full background checks are processed.

“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,” Warrington insisted.

Leavitt added that the Post was simply “engaging in baseless gossip.”

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