President Trump has said he “could” patch things up with Elon Musk, but a potential reconciliation isn’t a top priority, APA reports, citing The New York Post.
Speaking with Post columnist Miranda Devine on the debut episode of “Pod Force One,” Trump said he doesn’t “blame” Musk for the blow-up of their alliance, but is “a little disappointed.”
“Look, I have no hard feelings,” Trump, 78, said during a wide-ranging interview recorded Monday. “I was really surprised that that happened. He went after a bill that’s phenomenal. …He just — I think he feels very badly that he said that, actually.”
“I was disappointed in him, but, you know, it is what it is,” Trump admitted after Devine remarked that Musk seemed to treat the president “a bit like a father.”
“That happens. Things like that happen. I don’t blame him for anything. I was a little disappointed.”
Musk, 53, publicly erupted in fury last week over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the Congressional Budget Office projects will add $3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
This past Thursday, Musk sniped that the president wouldn’t have won the 2024 election without him and accused Trump of displaying “such ingratitude.”