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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret over his recent attacks on United States President Donald Trump, following a dramatic public fallout between the two high-profile figuresq. “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” Musk posted early Wednesday on his social media platform X. “They went too far.” According to AL Jazeera, Musk did not specify which comments he regretted, but his statement follows a string of severe criticisms he levelled against Trump in recent days. However, among them was a sensational, unsubstantiated accusation that Trump’s administration withheld files related to Jeffrey Epstein to conceal the president’s alleged involvement with the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. Before expressing regret, Musk had already begun to scale back tensions, deleting several X posts critical of Trump, including the Epstein claim. He also shared some of Trump’s posts that defended his immigration policy and condemned unrest in Los Angeles. The outspoken entrepreneur’s regret comes just weeks after he stepped down as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, a role he held under Trump’s administration. Musk had previously been a key supporter of Trump, especially during his re-election campaign and early presidency. However, tensions erupted after Musk denounced Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill”—a sweeping package of tax cuts and spending increases—as a “disgusting abomination.” Republicans urge Donald Trump and Elon Musk to end their feud Musk, who invested hundreds of millions of dollars to support Trump’s campaign, claimed the president would not have been elected without his help. He also voiced support for Trump’s impeachment, deepening the rift. In what was perhaps his most scathing attack, Musk claimed Trump was “in” the so-called Epstein files, suggesting this was the “real reason” the documents had not been made public. The White House dismissed the allegation as an “unfortunate episode.” The feud escalated as Trump responded by suggesting that cancelling government contracts and subsidies for Musk’s companies, such as Tesla and SpaceX, would be an effective way to reduce federal spending. Earlier on Saturday while speaking to NBC News, Trump said he believed his relationship with Musk was finished and added, “I have no intention of speaking to him.” Trump also issued a warning to Musk, saying he would face “very serious consequences” if he supported primary challengers to Republicans who backed the controversial bill. However, on Monday, Trump appeared to soften his tone, telling reporters they had a “great relationship” and that he wished Musk well.

Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy. His departure, announced Wednesday evening, marks the end of a turbulent chapter that included thousands of layoffs, the evisceration of government agencies and reams of litigation, reports AP. Despite the upheaval, the billionaire entrepreneur struggled in the unfamiliar environment of Washington, and he accomplished far less than he hoped. He dramatically reduced his target for cutting spending — from $2 trillion to $1 trillion to $150 billion — and increasingly expressed frustration about resistance to his goals. Sometimes he clashed with other top members of Trump's administration, who chafed at the newcomer's efforts to reshape their departments, and he faced fierce political blowback for his efforts. Musk's role working for Trump was always intended to be temporary, and he had recently signalled that he would be shifting his attention back to running his businesses, such as the electric automaker Tesla and the rocket company SpaceX. But administration officials were often vague about when Musk would step back from his position spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, and he abruptly revealed that he was leaving in a post on X, his social media website. “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” he wrote. “The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.” A White House official, who requested anonymity to talk about the change, confirmed Musk's departure. Trump admin cancels $766m Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu Musk announced his decision one day after CBS released part of an interview in which he criticised the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda by saying he was “disappointed” by what the president calls his “big beautiful bill.” The legislation includes a mix of tax cuts and enhanced immigration enforcement. Musk described it as a “massive spending bill” that increases the federal deficit and “undermines the work” of his Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE. “I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful,” Musk said. “But I don’t know if it could be both.” Trump, speaking in the Oval Office on Wednesday, defended his agenda by talking about the delicate politics involved with negotiating the legislation. “I’m not happy about certain aspects of it, but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it,” he said. Trump also suggested that more changes could be made. “We’re going to see what happens,” he said. “It’s got a way to go.” Republicans recently pushed the measure through the House and are debating it in the Senate. Musk's concerns are shared by some Republican lawmakers. “I sympathize with Elon being discouraged,” said Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. Speaking at a Milwaukee Press Club event on Wednesday, Johnson added that he was “pretty confident” there was enough opposition “to slow this process down until the president, our leadership, gets serious” about reducing spending. He said there was no amount of pressure Trump could put on him to change his position. Speaker Mike Johnson has asked senators to make as few changes to the legislation as possible, saying that House Republicans reached a “very delicate balance” that could be upended with major changes. The narrowly divided House will have to vote again on final passage once the Senate alters the bill. On Wednesday, Johnson thanked Musk for his work and promised to pursue more spending cuts in the future, saying “the House is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings.”

Elon Musk called Thursday to “delete entire agencies” from the United States' federal government as part of his push under President Donald Trump to radically cut spending and restructure its priorities. Musk offered a wide-ranging survey via a videocall to the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, of what he described as the priorities of the Trump administration interspersed with multiple references to “thermonuclear warfare” and the possible dangers of artificial intelligence. “We really have here rule of the bureaucracy as opposed to rule of the people — democracy,” Musk said, wearing a black T-shirt that read: “Tech Support.” He also joked that he was the “White House’s tech support,” borrowing from his profile on the social platform X, which he owns. “I think we do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leave a lot of them behind,” Musk said. “If we don’t remove the roots of the weed, then it’s easy for the weed to grow back.” While Musk has spoken to the summit in the past, his appearance Thursday comes as he has consolidated control over large swaths of the government with Trump ’s blessing since assuming leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency. That’s included sidelining career officials, gaining access to sensitive databases and inviting a constitutional clash over the limits of presidential authority. Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Here's why the idea is rejected Musk's new role imbued his comments with more weight beyond being the world’s wealthiest person through his investments in SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla. His remarks also offered a more-isolationist view of American power in the Middle East, where the U.S. has fought wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. “A lot of attention has been on USAID for example,” Musk said, referring to Trump's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development. “There's like the National Endowment for Democracy. But I’m like, ‘Okay, well, how much democracy have they achieved lately?’” He added that the U.S. under Trump is “less interested in interfering with the affairs of other countries.” There are “times the United States has been kind of pushy in international affairs, which may resonate with some members of the audience,” Musk said, speaking to the crowd in the UAE, an autocratically ruled nation of seven sheikhdoms. He also noted the Trump administration's focus on eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion work, at one point linking it to AI. Apple changes Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on maps “If hypothetically, AI is designed for DEI, you know, diversity at all costs, it could decide that there’s too many men in power and execute them,” Musk said. On AI, Musk said he believed X's newly updated AI chatbot, Grok 3, would be ready in about two weeks, calling it at one point “kind of scary.” He criticized Sam Altman's management of OpenAI, which Musk just led a $97.4 billion takeover bid for, describing it as akin to a nonprofit aimed at saving the Amazon rainforest becoming a "lumber company that chops down the trees.” Musk also announced plans for a “Dubai Loop” project in line with his work in the Boring Company — which is digging tunnels in Las Vegas to speed transit. However, he and the Emirati government official speaking with him offered no immediate details of the plan. “It’s going to be like a wormhole," Musk promised. "You just wormhole from one part of the city — boom — and you're out in another part of the city.”