President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested unleashing the DOGE “monster” on ally-turned-rival Elon Musk while leaving deportation on the table for the world’s richest person.

“I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look” at deportation, Trump told reporters Tuesday while touring the “Alligator Alcatraz” for detained migrants in Florida.

Musk is a native of South Africa who moved to the United States in 1992 to advance his education.

He became a U.S. citizen through the naturalization process in 2002.

In a video discussing his immigration status with his brother, Kimbal Musk, at a 2013 global conference, Elon Musk claimed “it was a gray area” after Kimbal Musk said the brothers “were illegal immigrants.”

Trump had another suggestion for dealing with Musk, who is at odds with the president over the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

“We might have to put DOGE on Elon,” Trump said, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk worked with to root out waste, fraud and abuse in government.

“You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies,” Trump said.

Musk’s companies have been awarded lucrative government contracts worth $38 billion, according to the Washington Post.

“But Elon’s very upset that the EV mandate is gonna be terminated,” Trump told reporters. “And, you know what, when you look at it … not everyone wants an electric car.

“I don’t want to have an electric car. I want to have maybe gasoline, maybe electric, maybe a hybrid, maybe someday a hydrogen … sometimes it blows up.”

Musk fired the first shots last month, calling Trump’s signature legislation a “disgusting abomination” for increasing the country’s debt.

Trump posted to his Truth Social account that Musk was “wearing thin.”

“I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!” Trump posted.

Musk denied that the subsidies angered him. On Thursday, he claimed that Trump only won the 2024 election because of the nearly $300 million he provided to the president’s campaign.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk responded. “Such ingratitude.”

Trump fired back, suggesting cutting the billions Musk’s companies receive from the government would be “the easiest way to save money in our budget.”

“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!” the president posted.

On Monday, Musk threatened to form a new political party after Freedom Caucus Republicans, who campaigned on reining in spending, voted in favor of the bill.

“It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!“ Musk tweeted.