Elon Musk says he ‘regrets’ social media attacks on Trump

Tech billionaire says immoderate of his societal media posts astir the US president ‘went excessively far’.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret implicit his broadsides against United States President Donald Trump pursuing their spectacular nationalist falling-out.

“I regret immoderate of my posts astir President @realDonaldTrump past week,” Musk said successful a station connected his societal media level X aboriginal connected Wednesday.

“They went excessively far.”

Musk, who departed from his relation arsenic the caput of the Department of Government Efficiency past month, did not specify which criticisms, successful particular, helium regretted.

Musk’s look of regret comes aft helium made a bid of bonzer attacks connected Trump, including the unsubstantiated assertion that his medication refused to merchandise files connected Jeffrey Epstein to conceal the president’s engagement with the precocious financier and convicted enactment offender.

After serving arsenic 1 of Trump’s astir almighty backers during his re-election run and the archetypal signifier of his presidency, Musk publically broke with the Republican past week implicit his “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, branding the bundle of sweeping taxation cuts and spending increases a “disgusting abomination”.

Musk went connected to station a flurry of criticisms of Trump and the Republicans’ spending plans, prompting a nationalist warfare of words betwixt 2 of the world’s astir almighty men.

I regret immoderate of my posts astir President @realDonaldTrump past week. They went excessively far.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 11, 2025

Musk, who spent hundreds of millions of dollars successful enactment of Trump’s White House run, besides claimed that the president would not person been elected without him and expressed enactment for his impeachment.

In his sharpest attack, Musk claimed that Trump was “in” the alleged Epstein files and that was the “real reason” they had not been made public.

The White House described the assertion arsenic an “unfortunate episode”.

Amid the backmost and distant betwixt the 2 men, Trump said the “easiest way” to chopped spending would beryllium to cancel authorities contracts and subsidies awarded to Musk’s companies, which see electrical carmaker Tesla and rocket institution SpaceX.

In an interrogation with NBC News connected Saturday, Trump said helium assumed his narration with Musk was implicit and that helium had nary involvement successful mending ties.

“I person nary volition of speaking to him,” Trump said.

Trump besides warned that Musk would “pay precise superior consequences” if helium followed calls to enactment superior challenges against Republicans who backed his signature bill, which is pending successful the US Congress.

On Monday, Trump appeared to person softened connected his erstwhile ally, telling reporters they had had a “great relationship” and helium wished him well.

Before his look of regret, Musk had made moves seemingly aimed astatine dialling down tensions betwixt the 2 men.

The South African-born entrepreneur deleted a fig of X posts attacking Trump – including his assertion astir links to Epstein – and shared respective of the president’s societal media posts defending his migration crackdown and condemning unrest successful Los Angeles.