Tech billionaire Elon Musk has confessed that he now regrets some of the barbs he made as he and U.S. President Donald Trump set the ‘internet on fire’ last week.
‘I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,’ Musk wrote on X.
Musk’s post came just days after Mr. Trump threatened the tech billionaire with ‘serious consequences’ if he sought to punish Republicans who vote for a controversial spending bill.
Musk’s Tesla saw its biggest-ever hit to its market cap in the aftermath of the feud, but shares have since been recouping losses.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act
The feud was sparked by Musk’s opposition to the Trump-backed ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ tax and spending bill.
The row escalated when Musk published a series of incendiary posts linking Trump to the former financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
‘Time to drop the really big bomb: (Trump) is in the Epstein files,’ Musk wrote, referring to unreleased government documents related to Epstein’s network of associates.
He claimed that these documents were being deliberately suppressed, suggesting that they might contain damaging information about the president.
In a follow-up post, he urged users to ‘mark this post for the future,’ adding, ‘The truth will come out.’
By Saturday morning, both posts had been deleted without explanation.
