Former DOGE chief Elon Musk has said that he regrets some of the posts he made last week about US President Donald Trump.
The two traded threats and insults online last week, in a row that was widely viewed as an end of their “bromance.”
Musk has since deleted some posts critical of Trump, including one signalling support for impeaching the president.
“I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk said on his X account early on Wednesday.
Following Musk’s comments, Trump told the New York Post: “I thought it was very nice that he did that.”
RT reports: Musk claims he sponsored Trump’s run for a second term in the White House to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, which he insists was crucial for the Republican candidate’s victory last November. After taking office, Trump appointed Musk to serve as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with slashing wasteful government expenditure.
In recent weeks, however, the tech entrepreneur has emerged as a vocal critic of Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” that requires Congressional approval to fund the president’s second term policy priorities. Musk branded the proposal full of “pork” and claimed it reneged on the campaign promise to decrease the federal debt.
Trump claimed last week that Musk opposed the bill out of self-interest, which triggered a barrage of increasingly hostile posts between the pair. The president branded Musk “crazy,” while the tech billionaire alleged that Trump was complicit in the sex offenses of late financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Musk later deleted the post.
Musk did not specify which of his previous posts he now found regrettable. Media reports have suggested that his associates and the White House were engaged in backchannel communications in a bid to deflate the tensions. Trump publicly said he was not interested in direct contacts with Musk, but later appeared to tone down his rhetoric toward the entrepreneur.