President Donald Trump doesn’t seem too eager to chat about his apparent “where did it go wrong for us” moment with Elon Musk during a memorial service for late far-right activist Charlie Kirk.
Speaking with journalists aboard Air Force One after Sunday’s event, Trump dismissed the notion that the loss of a mutual friend might have brought the two men back together again.
“Well, Elon came over and said hello, and no, it’s nothing to do with that,” he said. “It was… I thought it was nice. And he came over, had a little conversation. We had a very good relationship. But it was nicer that he came.”
The president and his former first buddy were seen sharing a moment and even a handshake at a private box overlooking the conservative youth activist’s funeral in Arizona, following Kirk’s assassination earlier this month by what Trump has falsely framed as a conspiratorial albeit ill-defined “radical left group of lunatics.”
Authorities have charged a single person, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, with Kirk’s murder, and there is no indication at this time he may have carried out the killing with the help of accomplices.
Musk followed up on his amicable-seeming exchange with Trump by posting on X a photo of himself and the president sitting together in the booth, accompanied by the caption “For Charlie,” which would appear to be what prompted the journalist’s question aboard Air Force One.
The moment follows after months of inconsistent hostilities between Trump and his former government efficiency czar, after Musk turned on MAGA in June by poking holes in the president’s spending proposals, trolling him with threats of starting his own political party, and even accusing Trump of being less-than-candid about his ties to late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
By far the most incendiary of Musk’s vitriolic online outbursts, those latter allegations have since proven prescient, with the White House facing intense scrutiny over Trump’s historic relationship with Epstein. The Justice Department and FBI found the disgraced financier, contrary to conspiracy theories long cherished by the MAGA support base, died by suicide in 2019 and kept no “client list” of uber-wealthy co-conspirators.
Musk has since conceded he may have taken things “too far” with those comments, and is even reported to have donated roughly $15 million to pro-Trump PACs, in addition to the estimated $280 million he spent getting the MAGA president re-elected in the first place, by way of making amends.
Trump—who has previously responded to Musk’s animosity by hinting at revoking his lucrative government contracts and even threatening to have him deported—appeared reluctant Sunday to further discuss the pair seemingly burying the hatchet. He quickly pivoted away from Kirk’s memorial entirely to talk about forthcoming MMA fights outside the White House.
“We’re going to have a UFC fight right at the White House, and we’re going to end up probably with 6,000 people in front of the White House,” he told reporters. “Then on the ellipse, we’re gonna have 80 or 90,000. It’s going to be an unbelievable event that a lot of people are talking about.”
The post Trump Addresses Getting Back Together With Musk After Their Explosive Feud appeared first on The Daily Beast.
