Trump aides ‘to broker peace talks' with Elon Musk after feud
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Date: 2025-06-06T07:45:00.000Z
Title: Donald Trump
Content: US president told Politico, 'Oh it's OK,' and, 'It's going very well, never done better,' when asked about his public breakup with billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the news outlet reported on Thursday.
White House aides have scheduled a call on Friday with Musk to broker a peace, Politico reported.
On Thursday, Trump and Musk escalated their disagreement about the US budget bill into a big public argument on social media. When asked about Musk's criticism of his 'Big, Beautiful Bill', the US president told reporters:
Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will any more.
Trump also said he was 'very disappointed in Elon'.
In return, Musk published a flurry of posts that stepped up his feud with the president and went on to claim that without him Trump would have 'lost the election' before bemoaning what he called 'such ingratitude'.
Meanwhile, a district judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration's ban on Harvard's international students from entering the United States after the Ivy League university argued the move was illegal.
Harvard had asked the judge, Allison Burrough, to block the ban, pending further litigation, arguing Trump had violated federal law by failing to back up his claims that the students posed a threat to national security.
More on both of these stories in a moment, but first, here are some other key developments:
Musk also suggested Trump should be impeached and that JD Vance should replace Trump, warning that Trump's global tariffs would 'cause a recession in the second half of this year' and claimed Trump was in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The White House described the Epstein assertions as an 'unfortunate episode', in a statement to CNN.
Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump ally and Elon Musk critic, suggested there were grounds to deport the tech billionaire, who has US citizenship. Bannon told the New York Times: 'They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately.'
Poland's foreign minister poked fun at Musk late on Thursday, returning to a social media spat from March after the Tesla and SpaceX boss spectacularly fell out with Trump. Warsaw's top diplomat Radoslaw Sikorski found himself embroiled in an extraordinarily public clash with Musk and US secretary of state Marco Rubio in March after he said Ukraine may need an alternative to the Starlink satellite service.
Trump's pick to be the next US surgeon general has repeatedly said the nation's medical, health and food systems are corrupted by special interests and people out to make a profit at the expense of Americans' health. Yet as Casey Means has criticised scientists, medical schools and regulators for taking money from the food and pharmaceutical industries, she has promoted dozens of health and wellness products – including specialty basil seed supplements, a blood testing service and a prepared meal delivery service – in ways that put money in her own pocket. A review by The Associated Press found Means, who has carved out a niche in the wellness industry, set up deals with an array of businesses.
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