{"id":1240,"date":"2025-06-11T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/elon-musk-says-he-regrets-social-media-attacks-on-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:51:03","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-regrets-social-media-attacks-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/elon-musk-says-he-regrets-social-media-attacks-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says he \u2018regrets\u2019 social media attacks on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tech billionaire says some of his social media posts about the US president \u2018went too far\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret over his broadsides against United States President Donald Trump following their spectacular public falling-out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,\u201d Musk said in a post on his social media platform X early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey went too far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk, who departed from his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency last month, did not specify which criticisms, in particular, he regretted.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s expression of regret comes after he made a series of extraordinary attacks on Trump, including the unsubstantiated claim that his administration refused to release files on Jeffrey Epstein to conceal the president\u2019s involvement with the late financier and convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n

After serving as one of Trump\u2019s most powerful backers during his re-election campaign and the initial phase of his presidency, Musk publicly broke with the Republican last week over his \u201cOne Big, Beautiful Bill\u201d, branding the package of sweeping tax cuts and spending increases a \u201cdisgusting abomination\u201d.<\/p>\n

Musk went on to post a flurry of criticisms of Trump and the Republicans\u2019 spending plans, prompting a public war of words between two of the world\u2019s most powerful men.<\/p>\n

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I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump<\/a> last week. They went too far.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Musk, who spent hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Trump\u2019s White House run, also claimed that the president would not have been elected without him and expressed support for his impeachment.<\/p>\n

In his sharpest attack, Musk claimed that Trump was \u201cin\u201d the so-called Epstein files and that was the \u201creal reason\u201d they had not been made public.<\/p>\n

The White House described the claim as an \u201cunfortunate episode\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amid the back and forth between the two men, Trump said the \u201ceasiest way\u201d to cut spending would be to cancel government contracts and subsidies awarded to Musk\u2019s companies, which include electric carmaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX.<\/p>\n

In an interview with NBC News on Saturday, Trump said he assumed his relationship with Musk was over and that he had no interest in mending ties.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no intention of speaking to him,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Trump also warned that Musk would \u201cpay very serious consequences\u201d if he followed calls to support primary challenges against Republicans who backed his signature bill, which is pending in the US Congress.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump appeared to have softened on his former ally, telling reporters they had had a \u201cgreat relationship\u201d and he wished him well.<\/p>\n

Before his expression of regret, Musk had made moves apparently aimed at dialling down tensions between the two men.<\/p>\n

The South African-born entrepreneur deleted a number of X posts attacking Trump \u2013 including his claim about links to Epstein \u2013 and shared several of the president\u2019s social media posts defending his immigration crackdown and condemning unrest in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech billionaire says some of his social media posts about the US president \u2018went too far\u2019. Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret over his broadsides against United States President Donald Trump following their spectacular public falling-out. \u201cI regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,\u201d Musk said in a post on his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}