Musk: I apologise for some of my Trump posts
Baku, June 11, AZERTAC
Elon Musk has made a public apology to Donald Trump for posting incendiary comments on social media that imploded their relationship, according to Telegraph.
The billionaire Tesla founder, who had been one of Mr Trump’s closest advisers, had called for the US president to be impeached and claimed that he was named in the Epstein files.
“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” Mr Musk wrote on Wednesday morning.
He did not specify which ones, although he has since deleted the claim about Mr Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Trump said Mr Musk had “lost his mind” in the meltdown, which started with a disagreement over the president’s so-called “big, beautiful” spending Bill.
Mr Musk had been hired as a “special government employee” to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), controversially tasked with downsizing the federal workforce and slashing spending.
While he enjoyed some success in his mission, he was upset by Mr Trump’s decision to open the spending taps in his Bill, saying it was undoing his team’s work.
Mr Musk exited the White House at the end of May, ending a turbulent 130-day stint in Mr Trump’s team, just days after he said he was “disappointed” with the new budget.
In a cordial public farewell to the man who appointed himself as Trump’s “first buddy”, the president said Mr Musk would stay on as an adviser. He was handed a gold key to the White House.
But the simmering dissent went public last week when the pair began trading insults online, with Mr Musk denouncing the president’s budget as “a disgusting abomination” that would bankrupt the US.
The Tesla billionaire called on Americans to help “kill the Bill”, which includes multi-trillion-dollar tax breaks and a boost to defence spending.
Mr Trump was quick to hit back, claiming the Tesla billionaire had been irked by the legislation ending tax credit worth billions of dollars to his electric vehicle company.
Their spat rapidly intensified when Mr Musk called for the president’s impeachment and claimed the Republican was “in the Epstein files” – the dossier of US government information held on the late paedophile financier.
In response, Mr Trump threatened to cancel US government contracts with Mr Musk’s companies, which include SpaceX.
By Saturday, Mr Musk had deleted the worst of his tweets in an apparent sign that he was hoping to repair the rift.
Yet the damage was done. Mr Trump declared his relationship with the South African-born tech tycoon was over and that he had “no desire” to mend it, accusing Mr Musk of being “disrespectful to the office of the president”.
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