Elon Musk strikes conciliatory tones in a dispute with Donald Trump

After his public dusting with US President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk surprisingly rowed back. “I regret some of my contributions about President @Raldonaldtrump last week. They went too far,” he wrote on the platform X.

Musk’s gentler tones follow a few days after Trump threatened “very serious consequences” in the event of support from the Democrats. In an interview with the broadcaster NBC News last week, Trump warned, who belongs to the Republican Party: “If he does it, he has to pay the price for it.” However, he did not name any consequences.

The dispute at a tax and budgetary law driven by Trump, against which Musk was stuck against Trump. This demands far more powerful spending. Thereupon, Musk, the richest man in the world, and Trump, the most powerful man in the world, had an open mud battle after months of close cooperation.

Musk attacked the president in numerous posts and, among other things, claimed that Trump had never won the presidential election without his support. He had financed his election campaign with more than $ 250 million and had become a confidante of the Republican. Trump then wrote that the Tesla boss had “gone crazy” and provided the prospect of deleting orders and subsidies for Musks such as Tesla and SpaceX to save billions.