President Donald Trump revealed this week that he is open to reconciling with billionaire Elon Musk over their falling out due to the president’s “big, beautiful bill.”
“Look, I have no hard feelings. I was really surprised that that happened. He went after a bill that’s phenomenal. He just — I think he feels very badly that he said that, actually,” Trump said during an interview on “Pod Force One with Miranda Devine” that was published Wednesday,
Trump’s comments came after Musk expressed regret over some posts he made last week regarding Trump, marking a significant retreat from his online conflict with the president.
“I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk posted to his X platform on Wednesday, though he didn’t specify which posts for which he was most regretful.
Tensions flared last week between President Trump and Elon Musk after the former DOGE chief called the president’s sweeping tax and spending package a “disgusting abomination.”
The dispute quickly escalated, with Trump declaring that his relationship with Musk was over and threatening to revoke federal funding for Musk’s SpaceX ventures.
In response, Musk intensified the feud by posting—and later deleting—a message suggesting Trump’s name appeared in documents connected to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Musk’s post said: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Trump denied the claim in an interview with ABC News, saying Musk had “lost his mind” and made it clear he had no intention of reconciling.
Musk has also removed a separate post in which he appeared to support efforts to impeach the president.
As for Musk’s initial assertion that Trump was “in” the Epstein files, several people have since publicly refuted that.
Attorney David Schoen said in an X post that Epstein told him he had nothing inappropriate or damaging on the future president.
“I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!” the attorney wrote on the platform.
