Musk's attacks against Trump will not be ‘easy to walk back'
Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer discusses whether Elon Musk can reconcile with Donald Trump after launching personal attacks at the president on X.
This comes after Mr Musk expressed his regret on X – formerly known as Twitter – at some of his previous posts about the US President, saying they 'went too far'.
'Not an easy thing to walk back ... having said that, I appreciate the instinct to try to walk it back,' Mr Hammer told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
'It is best for the American right to try to get these two titans to try to let bygones be bygones but easier said than done.'
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