“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary brushed off the significance of the public feud between President Trump and Elon Musk, saying the two men “really need each other” and will find a way to move forward.
In an interview on Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” O’Leary said “it’s a good thing” that the tension between Trump and Musk seems to be subsiding.
“I’m pretty happy that these two have started to reconcile their differences,” O’Leary said. “I mean, you know, this is a classic case of ‘poo poo happens.’ But they really need each other.”
O’Leary pointed to Musk’s commercial success — in electric vehicles, robotics, neurosurgery, SpaceX and other ventures — as a potential asset for Trump going forward.
“Elon is the No. 1 industrialist in America, with many of these technologies the envy of the world,” O’Leary said, adding, “All this stuff is the cutting edge of American tech, and Trump wants to have that in his back pocket.”
O’Leary said repairing the relationship is important for Trump, so he expects Trump to be able to overlook the “little fight.”
“The most powerful man on Earth wants the richest man on Earth for a million reasons,” O’Leary said.
“So if they have a little fight for a week or two, so what? Maybe the relationship is slightly different going forward, but it’s going to be there again.”
O’Leary noted that mending the relationship between the two men is beneficial for outside parties too.
“I think it’s a good thing, and the market loved it, by the way. Investors loved it. They don’t want this fight. Nobody wants this fight,” he said.
Trump and Musk spoke on the phone late Monday night, after allies of both men urged them to reconcile their feud that exploded last week with a torrent of social media barbs.
The very public falling out last week came after Musk departed from his role as a special government employee and chief adviser to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The billionaire, who owns six companies, had criticized the massive reconciliation package working its way through Congress as an “abomination.” Trump said he was “very disappointed” in Musk, who responded with a wave of attacks on social media that included echoing a call for Trump to be impeached and an allegation that the president was named in documents connected to a federal investigation of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder, who spent millions of dollars in support of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, had deleted his more inflammatory posts in recent days. Early Wednesday, he posted on social platform X, which he also owns, that some of his attacks “went too far.”
