Tech entrepreneur and CEO of X, Elon Musk has slammed Sergio Gor, a top Trump adviser, as a “snake”.
Musk, a former DOGE chief, took to X to make his thoughts about Gor known.
Gor played a role in Musk’s split with Donald Trump.
“He’s a snake,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X, replying to a New York Post story reporting that Gor, who serves as the director of the White House personnel office, has not himself been properly vetted.
According to the Post, Gor has not submitted the requisite paperwork to obtain a permanent security clearance, even as he presides over the screening process for thousands of White House staffers.
But the White House maintained that Gor has an active security clearance and is “fully compliant” with the necessary requirements.
“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,” White House counsel David Warrington said.
Vice President JD Vance also stood by Gor, lauding his “effort to ensure committed, principled America First advocates staff the President’s government,” adding for good measure, “he’s done a great job, and will continue to do so.”
Tensions between Musk and Gor had long simmered, with Musk refusing to work with Gor after a March Cabinet meeting in which the billionaire clashed with other Cabinet members over cuts to their agencies, prompting Trump to clarify that agency heads had authority over their departments, not DOGE’s Musk.
But the situation worsened when Gor helped facilitate the termination of Jared Isaacman’s nomination for NASA head—a pick Musk had pushed.
The decision to pull Isaacman’s nomination appeared to be the last straw for Musk, who shortly thereafter launched a social media spree attacking the president and the “Big Beautiful Bill” he was drumming up support to push through Congress.
At the time, Trump pointed to his choice to pull Isaacman’s nomination as a motivating factor in Musk’s decision to lash out against him.
