(Washington) Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, who had spread last week against the most powerful man in the world, Donald Trump, regretted having “gone too far” in the thunderous dispute that angry the two former loved ones.
“I regret some of my messages on the president (…) last week. They went too far, ”he published on his social network X, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in the United States.
Elon Musk Patron of SpaceX, a space company very dependent on the orders of NASA, and general manager of the car manufacturer Tesla, subject to the normative framework enacted by the American authorities, had made a series of first gestures last week.
He had thus deleted a publication on X published at the height of his dispute with the American president, in which he accused him of being involved in the case Jeffrey Epstein, named after a financier accused of sexual exploitation of minors.
Other publications written or shared by the billionaire, one of whom called to dismiss Donald Trump, have also been deleted.
Elon Musk did not detail Wednesday to which publications he was referring.
The two men, who were very close during the Donald Trump campaign and at the start of his second term, were torn publicly, in both professional and personal registers. The businessman had thus denounced the budget bill brought by Donald Trump, who had questioned the mental health of the latter.
Trumpian threats
It all started when Elon Musk had treated the great budgetary bill. Donald Trump replied that he was amazed, especially since according to him Elon Musk knew the content of the project.
“False”, had retorted the latter, before chaining by saying that it was thanks to him, his support and his dollars, that Donald Trump was sitting in the oval office today. And to evoke the possibility of creating his own political party, he who cannot be elected to the White House, because born outside the United States.
He “gone crazy”, had retaliated Donald Trump, waving the threat of removing public subsidies and orders to Elon Musk companies, and the exchanges had continued for hours under the gaze of the rest of the planet, amazed before the shock between the richest man in the world, backed by a fortune of almost $ 400 billion, and the most powerful man UNITED STATES.
Especially since they had been very close, exchanging countless kindness in previous months, when Elon Musk had been responsible for setting up the DOGE, the Federal Commission responsible for melting, sometimes brutally, the expenses of the federal state.
But this separation also carries very concrete consequences for Elon Musk companies, given the executive power held by Donald Trump. And this, despite the crucial place of Elon Musk’s companies in the American landscape, even if the latter argued that his power was more sustainable: “Trump is still three and a half years as president. I will be there for another 40 years. »»
He also faced a series of less economic implications and threats: influential Trumpists like the far -right ideologist Steve Bannon thus asked to investigate the migration status of Elon Musk, a 50 -year -old born in South Africa, on his authorization to access confidential information and his alleged consumption of drugs.
The American president also explicitly threatened him if he began to support democratic candidates in elections: “He will have to face very heavy consequences,” he warned, without detailing the nature of these potential repercussions.
