This week, Trump has said Musk would have to "close up shop and head back home to South Africa" if he halted government subsidies to his companies, and then later added that his administration would "have to take a look" at deporting Musk.

President Donald Trump Tuesday did not dismiss the idea of deporting Elon Musk and said he will have to take a look. Though a naturalized American citizen, Elon Musk was born in South Africa, and in the fresh tussle between Trump and Musk over the old 'Big,