Following their public spat last week, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and a former adviser to Donald Trump, stated on Wednesday that he regretted some of his recent criticisms of the US president.
“I apologize for a few of my posts from last week regarding President @realDonaldTrump. On his social networking site X, Musk posted, “They went too far.”
Musk’s apology followed Trump’s threat of “serious consequences” if the tech entrepreneur tried to punish Republicans who supported a contentious funding bill. Musk’s scathing critique of Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful” spending bill, which is presently before Congress, sparked their acrimonious split, which was primarily conducted on social media in front of an enthralled public on Thursday last week.
Some lawmakers who were against the bill had called on Musk — one of the Republican Party’s biggest financial backers in last year’s presidential election — to fund primary challenges against Republicans who voted for the legislation.
“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” Trump, who also branded Musk “disrespectful,” told NBC News on Saturday, without specifying what those consequences would be.
