Elon Musk says he ‘regrets' some posts he made about Donald Trump
Billionaire
Elon Musk
has said he regrets some of the posts he made last week about US president
Donald Trump
, in a message on his
social media platform X
.
'I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,' Mr Musk wrote.
The two men began exchanging insults last week on social media, with the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive describing the US president's sweeping tax and spending bill as a 'disgusting abomination.'
Mr Musk called for Mr Trump to be impeached, suggested his trade tariffs would cause a US recession, threatened to decommission SpaceX capsules used to transport Nasa astronauts and insinuated the president was associated with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Mr Musk's post comes days after Mr Trump said his relationship with the world's richest man was over.
I regret some of my posts about President
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