While I don't take what Musk says very seriously he's talking about sending a Starship rocket with a robot on to Mars next year. Maybe something like that could be combined with the return mission? <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/tech/spacex-send-starship-mars-next-year-elon-musk-confirms" rel="nofollow">https://www.foxnews.com/tech/spacex-send-starship-mars-next-...</a>
The writing has been on the wall for the MSR mission for quite some time. As disappointing as this is, I don't think it's fair to blame this all on the Trump admin.