Musk is the biggest donor in Republican politics, pouring nearly $275 million into Trump's last election campaign.
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President Trump and Elon Musk slammed each other on social media last week. Trump has also said he has no interest in repairing his relationship with his former adviser.
Elon Musk, writing on his own social network "X" on Wednesday morning, "regretted" some of his posts and comments about President Donald Trump last week. After Musk wrote a series of posts against President Trump on X, Trump also responded strongly to it.
Musk took to his platform on Wednesday to mention that some of his posts about Trump "went too far". Musk, the world's richest man, was once one of the president's closest advisers, overseeing government spending and efforts to cut federal employees. However, after Tesla's chief executive Musk stepped out of his role in the Trump administration, he became dramatically anti-Trump.
With both of them criticizing each other on social media, Trump said he has no interest in improving relations with Musk. Musk's public apology is seen as a sign that his impasse with the president may be coming to an end. Last week, after unexpected ups and downs, Musk took a step back and announced that the two will be stronger together. He also deleted some of his most provocative social media posts. At the same time, Trump also reduced public criticism of Musk.
The protest in Los Angeles has become an issue that the two agree on . Musk has also supported Trump's statement that a concrete and immediate response is needed to control the protests against Trump's immigration policy in LA. He has not only supported, but is also making his social network X a means of gathering support for Trump's policy.
Musk is the biggest donor in Republican politics, pouring nearly $275 million into Trump's latest campaign. He also has a lot of followers on X, which he owns. But compared to Musk, Trump's political power is very big. Musk's companies, notably Tesla and SpaceX, have received multibillion-dollar contracts from the federal government in recent years. In a virtual spat between the two, Trump threatened to re-evaluate contracts awarded to Musk's company and cancel them.
In 2023 alone, 17 federal agencies awarded plans worth $3 billion to Musk's companies. Aides of the two men urged them to reconcile . At the beginning of the dispute, Musk criticized Trump's domestic policy bill. Which he condemned as 'disgusting'. But the dispute soon turned into petty and personal attacks.
