Days after President Trump’s public break with his former advisor Elon Musk, the latter appears to be controlling the damage.
“I’m sorry for some of my posts about President [Trump] last week,” Musk posted on X, his social media platform, on Wednesday (11). “They went too far.”
Trump was active on social media on Wednesday morning (11), but did not publicly respond to Musk’s apology.
However, in a previously recorded podcast interview with the New York Post, Trump said he “held no grudges” against Musk.
“I don’t blame him for anything, but I was a little disappointed,” Trump said, adding that he hadn’t “thought much about him lately”.
When asked if he could forgive Musk, Trump replied: “I think so,” but that “my only job now is to take this country back to a higher level than ever”.
The president told NBC News on Saturday that he has no desire to mend his relationship with Musk, stating that he assumed it was over.
“I’m very busy doing other things,” Trump said, adding: “I have no intention of talking to him”.
Trump criticized Musk in that interview, saying the tech billionaire had been “disrespectful to the office of the president”.
But Trump also seemed to soften some of his positions. He said he hadn’t thought anymore about his previous threat to cancel federal contracts for Musk’s companies or investigate his immigration status, as Steve Bannon, a Trump ally, had publicly suggested.
Meanwhile, Musk quietly deleted some of his most inflammatory tweets from the previous week, including posts supporting a call to impeach Trump, linking Trump to the files of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and saying that Trump’s tariffs would cause a recession this year.
Trump said on Monday (09) that he had no plans to discontinue Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system installed at the White House, despite security concerns — although he might move his Tesla, which he bought in March, to another location. And he told reporters he wouldn’t have a problem if Musk called.
“We had a good relationship and I just wish him all the best — very well, actually,” Trump said. A clip of the conversation was posted on X, where Musk responded with a heart emoji.
Fonte: www.npr.org