By Kolawole Ojebisi
US President, Donald Trump, has stated that he is ready to bury the hatchet with the tech billionaire Elon Musk and let bygones be bygones.
Trump, however, maintained that Musk’s recent attacks against him on social media has shown the true colours of the founder of SpaceX, adding that he was “not a happy camper”.
“I guess I could,” Trump told “Pod Force One” with The New York Post’s Miranda Devine in an interview published on Wednesday morning.
When asked if he could forgive his estranged political associate, Trump added that “we have to straighten out the country.
“And my sole function now is getting this country back to a level higher than it’s ever been”.
Trump made these remarks hours after Musk posted on X that he regretted some of his comments about the US president
“They went too far,” Musk admitted.The rosy relationship between Trump and Musk began to fall apart after the latter left his White House advisory role on “good terms”
Prior to his decision Musk had steered the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with slashing waste and fraud in federal spending.
Meanwhile, after leaving DOGE, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO sharply criticized the One Big Beautiful Bill—the centerpiece of Trump’s domestic agenda—as “pork-filled” and an “abomination”.
He also accused Trump of ingratitude, taking credit for delivering the 2024 election win, and claimed the president was in the Jeffrey Epstein files, explaining the delay to their full release by the Department of Justice.
Reacting to his estranged ally’s series offensive posts, Trump threatened to cut lucrative federal contracts held by Musk’s businesses.
