{"id":54441,"date":"2025-06-11T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/elon-musk-expresses-regret-over-recent-trump-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:08:53","slug":"elon-musk-expresses-regret-over-recent-trump-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/elon-musk-expresses-regret-over-recent-trump-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk expresses regret over recent Trump criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,\u201d Musk posted on X, the platform he owns, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

The post marks the first conciliatory gesture from Musk after days of highly public clashes that drew headlines and shook political and financial circles alike.<\/p>\n

The feud erupted after Musk labelled Trump\u2019s newly passed tax and spending bill a \u201cdisgusting abomination,\u201d urging Americans to lobby their representatives to \u201ckill the bill,\u201d which he warned could lead to a recession later this year. <\/p>\n

The bill, which includes major tax cuts and increases to defense spending, passed the House last month and is now under Senate consideration.<\/p>\n

Tensions escalated further when Musk suggested Trump was named in unreleased government files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The White House dismissed the claim, while Trump responded by calling Musk \u201cdisrespectful\u201d and threatened to terminate his companies\u2019 government contracts, valued at around $38 billion, much of which goes to SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s attacks included reposting calls for Trump\u2019s impeachment and claiming that the president owed his 2024 election victory to Musk\u2019s support and donations. <\/p>\n

Musk, who previously served as co-head of the Trump administration\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and was a top donor to the 2024 Trump campaign, appeared to delete many of those posts over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Trump, for his part, declared their relationship “over” and said he had no interest in speaking with Musk again, telling CNN, \u201cI don\u2019t know what his problem is\u2026 I haven\u2019t thought too much about him in the last little while.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fallout shocked Washington and Silicon Valley alike. Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon called for Musk, who was born in South Africa, to be deported. Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance and several senior Republicans expressed hope that the two powerful figures could reconcile.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Musk\u2019s walk-back, Tesla shares rose 2% in premarket trading, reflecting investor relief over the potential de-escalation of a political rift that had also spooked markets.<\/p>\n

While Musk didn\u2019t specify which posts he regretted, his recent actions suggest a softening stance. He deleted the post referencing Epstein, as well as one endorsing Trump\u2019s impeachment. <\/p>\n

Over the weekend, he signalled agreement with investor Bill Ackman\u2019s call for reconciliation, replying, \u201cnot wrong,\u201d to a suggestion that the two men should \u201cmake peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk also appeared to back the administration\u2019s tough response to protests in Los Angeles, posting American flag emojis in response to VP Vance\u2019s remarks condemning the unrest.<\/p>\n

Adding to the drama, Musk\u2019s father, Errol Musk, told Russian media over the weekend that Elon had made a \u201cmistake\u201d in taking on the president. <\/p>\n

\u201cTrump will prevail. He is the president,\u201d Errol said, predicting the feud would be \u201cover tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it remains to be seen whether the truce will hold or the rivalry will reignite, Musk\u2019s change in tone signals a possible end, at least for now, to one of the most explosive political clashes of 2025.<\/p>\n

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has publicly expressed regret over a series of incendiary social media posts aimed at President Donald Trump, signalling a potential cooling of tensions after a spectacular fallout between the two influential figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000088909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000088909,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/intro-1737210418_1_.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/intro-1737210418_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/intro-1737210418_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/intro-1737210418_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/intro-1737210418_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/intro-1737210418_1_.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000088909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54441"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54441"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}