India, June 6 -- Amid the escalating feud between tech billionaire Elon Musk and United States President Donald Trump, the former announced that his space firm SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.

Musk made the announcement in response to Trump's statement about cancellation of his government contracts.

"In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately," Musk said in a post on X.

This comes just hour after Trump posted on his own social media platform Truth Social that the easiest way of saving billions of dollars in US' budget is suspending Musk's governmental subsidies and contracts.

"The easiest w...