President Trump said he thinks he could make amends with tech billionaire Elon Musk following their public feud, but that doing so is not a priority for him.
Trump was asked by The New York Post’s “Pod Force One” if he could reconcile with Musk, less than a week after the blowup between the two men that grew increasingly dramatic as the Tesla CEO called for Trump’s impeachment and linked him to the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“I guess I could, but you know, we have to straighten out the country,” the president said. “And my sole function now is getting this country back to a level higher than it’s ever been. And I think we can do that. I think we’re going to do it easily.”
Post columnist Miranda Devine asked Trump if there was anything he could do to forgive Musk, and the president said he has “no hard feelings” but was surprised by his former top adviser’s public criticism of the House-passed “big, beautiful bill.”
“When he did that, I was not a happy camper,” he said.
The president on Friday told reporters he’s not interested in making up with the Tesla CEO and signaled that he was done with his relationship-turned-feud.
Devine also asked the president what kind of problems Musk has, questioning if they are drug-related after The New York Times reported on his alleged drug use on the 2024 campaign trail.
“I don’t know what his problem is, really. I don’t know,” the president said. “I haven’t thought too much about him in the last little while, but the bill is so good.”
The president added that he thinks Musk “feels very badly” that he criticized the megabill, which includes top priorities for Trump.
Additionally, Trump clarified that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Musk didn’t have “a fist fight, I guess they had a little bit of a shouting match.” The president had said Monday that he didn’t see “a lot of physicality” but that the two did have an argument, following a Washington Post reporting that Musk rammed his shoulder into the Treasury secretary’s rib cage during a disagreement.
Musk earlier on Wednesday voiced regret for his public feud with Trump, saying that it “went too far” on his social media platform X.
