Donald Trump: Elon Musk deletes the worst tweet about the president

In the publicly held sludge battle with US President Donald Trump, the Tech billionaire Elon Musk deleted a explosive comment in his online service X: On Saturday morning, the entries that Musk claimed had disappeared that Trump was under lock and key.

With the comment, Musk had referred to the abuse scandal around the US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, which was found dead in his prison cell in 2019. Epstein was a former neighbor of Trump in Florida. The investment banker was accused of having misused numerous girls and young women and performed celebrities such as the British prince Andrew.

Musk had neither explained in his X-contribution which documents he referred to, nor did he present evidence of his claims. The name Trump also appeared in released documents for the Epstein affair, but the acting president was not accused of misconduct.

Trump had been open to the release of further files in the election campaign, but so far nothing has happened. After the escalation in the dispute with the US President, Musk claimed that the real reason for the lack of approval was that Trump occurs.

Musk-owner of the companies SpaceX, Tesla and X as well as the richest man in the world-had joined Trump’s Maga movement (Make America Great Again, makes America great again) in the summer of 2024 and supported the right-wing populists in the election campaign with an estimated up to $ 280 million (around $ 245 million).

As a thank you, Trump made him his special consultant after his election and commissioned him with massive savings in the state apparatus. Musk gave up the consultant post at the end of May. After that, the billionaire expressed increasingly sharp criticism of Trump’s tax plans, which “drove America into bankruptcy” and would lead to increasing public debt.

In parallel to the visit of Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) on Thursday in Washington there was a final break between the most powerful and the richest man in the world. Trump said that his former ally had “lost the mind” after he said that Trump had lost the presidential election in November without him.