President Donald Trump signaled openness to repairing his relationship with Elon Musk, expressing appreciation for the tech mogul’s apology.
Speaking with the New York Post, the president said he appreciated Musk’s brief apology for X posts made during their heated public spat last week.
“I thought it was very nice that he did that,” he said, but didn’t commit to whether he was willing to reconcile with Musk.
A feud between Trump and Musk erupted dramatically last Thursday. Trump downplayed Musk’s importance in the 2024 elections, said he’d gone “CRAZY,” and threatened to cancel federal contracts with his companies. Musk said Trump would have lost the 2024 election without his help and claimed Trump was withholding the release of the Epstein files because they implicated him.
Trump took a stoic approach to the feud beginning Friday, signaling in phone calls with CNN and ABC News that their relationship was over.
“I’m not even thinking about Elon. He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem,” Trump told CNN.
“I won’t be speaking to him for a while, I guess, but I wish him well,” he added.
He was harsher in an interview with ABC News, saying, “You mean the man who has lost his mind?” when asked about a phone call between him and Musk.
MUSK COMMENTS ABOUT FEUD WITH TRUMP, SAYS HE REGRETS ‘SOME’ OF HIS POSTS
Trump added that he was “not particularly” interested in talking to the Tesla CEO.
Musk began flirting with a full political split with Trump, floating the idea of starting a new party. However, he soon began backtracking. By Wednesday morning, he had deleted his posts linking Trump with Epstein and said he regretted “some” of his posts about the president, as they had taken things “too far.”
