India, Aug. 23 -- Elon Musk and Sergio Gor, whom President Donald Trump nominated as the next US ambassador to India on Friday, had reportedly clashed for months before the Tesla CEO resigned from the Trump administration in May.

In mid-June 2025, Elon Musk took to X (formerly Twitter) to call Sergio Gor, one of Donald Trump's closest aides and who is currently the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, "a snake".

Musk's post came shortly after a New York Post report claimed that Gor, who oversees vetting for thousands of executive-branch employees, had not completed his own background security clearance paperwork for a permanent security clearance. The report further claimed that he was still operating under an inte...