Elon Musk on Thursday said his company SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft "immediately" because of threats by President Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk's businesses.

But hours later, Musk said, "Ok, we won't decommission Dragon," after a X user urged him to "cool off and take a step back for a couple days."

Musk's about-face on his social media site X came amid an escalating war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.

"In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts , @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately," Musk wrote.

Dragon is the only U.S. option for delivering crew to and

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