Elon Musk has come crawling on his hands and knees back to Donald Trump.
The antagonistic technocrat gave a public apology for his harsh words directed at his ally in the White House, in a post on X at 3 a.m. on Wednesday.
“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” he wrote.
But Musk hadn’t simply criticized Trump’s policies during their messy public break.
Musk had implied that Trump was implicated in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and alleged human trafficker, and that was why his administration was soft-footing the release of the so-called Epstein files. He’d even backed calls for Trump’s impeachment. In doing so, the billionaire set himself adrift from the MAGA crowd that had readily embraced him.
Obviously, the internet was more than a little curious about which posts Musk regretted, and why he’d decided to walk back his hard turn away from Trump.
To some the answer seemed obvious: his feud had cost him too much money.
Others speculated that Musk had decided he’d drawn the public’s attention to his own close relationship to Epstein’s associates.
It’s clear that Musk has been trying to turn the ship on his departure from Trump’s good graces, cheerleading the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration protests in Los Angeles. In a podcast interview earlier this week, Musk declared that he had “no hard feelings” about Trump, and sources close to Musk told Reuters that his anger at the president had subsided, and he may want to rekindle their connection.
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