Instead of admitting "we can't really go to mars" or that there was ever a point any value to be achieved by that...
He'll just be all like, "hur-dur, I'll cut my own spending because 'merica!! ...And self-sacrifice!!"
And it will be used as an excuse to dip out on the con that was never going to happen anyway, but with positive spin.
**Elon is in quotes, because Elon is an op
He got subsidies for teslas now he doesn't want them for his competitors. The art of the deal, right?
...And hey, bro, Trump, also some tariffs on those Chinese EVs won't hurt either.