“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.”
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”.
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.
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)But on 3 June, Musk launched a wave of strongly worded attacks on the spending bill, saying “shame on those who voted for it”.
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)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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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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