Elon Musk has said he regrets his scathing comments about US President Donald Trump, just six days after their explosive breakup.
“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” he said in a post on X on Wednesday morning. “They went too far.”
The tech billionaire spent $250m on Trump’s election campaign and became one of the President’s closest advisers, heading up a new Government department created specifically for him designed to cut back spending.
But the relationship spectacularly imploded last week, when Musk made a series of allegations about Trump’s relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and attacked Trump’s landmark spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.
Trump has not yet responded to Musk’s row-back.
Cracks began to show in late May, when Musk was still in post at the White House and said he was “disappointed” in the spending bill.
Musk left his position on 31 May, saying it was “scheduled” because he was limited to a 130-day appointment as a “special government employee”.
The parting was amicable, with Trump presenting Musk a gold key to the White House as a leaving present during a farewell press conference in the Oval Office.
Happier recent times: Elon Musk receives a golden key from Donald Trump in the Oval Office after leaving his government role (Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters)Musk said he looked forward to “continuing to be a friend and adviser to the President”.
But on 3 June, Musk launched a wave of strongly worded attacks on the spending bill, saying “shame on those who voted for it”.
The feud erupted two days later, when Musk claimed that Trump would have lost the election without his support and had shown “such ingratitude”.
Musk suggested the creation of a new political party which “actually represents the 80 per cent in the middle”.
Musk was one of the Republican presidential contender’s top financial backers and joined him several times on the campaign trail last year (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP)In response, Trump threatened to cancel Musk’s lucrative contracts with the US Government, saying the tech billionaire has gone “crazy” and was “wearing thin”.
Musk then made a bombshell allegation about Trump’s relationship with Epstein, who was convicted of sex trafficking and died in jail in 2019, saying that Trump is “in the Epstein files” and this is why they haven’t been released to the public.
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In February, the US attorney general pledged to release all of the information the government has on Epstein – known as the “Epstein files”.
However, “Phase One” of the release of documents contained only phone-book contacts and flight logs, most of which have been available since 2015. No date has been set for releasing the remaining files.
Musk reposted videos of Epstein and Trump together and shared a screenshot from a magazine interview in which Trump appears to calls Epstein a “terrific guy”.
He later shared a post calling for Trump to be impeached, and claimed that Trump’s tariffs “will cause a recession in the second half of this year”.
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