Elon Musk went into damage-control mode early Wednesday as he tried to mend fences with President Donald Trump after their spectacular falling-out last week.And his critics are mocking his public show of fealty on his own platform. Musk spent some $291 million during the 2024 election cycle, most notably to help Trump, according to OpenSecrets.org, and became a constant presence by his side. Once in office, Trump put Musk in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to cut government spending. But Musk left his role, attacked Trump’s signature “big, beautiful bill” as a “disgusting abomination,” and went scorched-earth against his one-time ally in a series of posts on X last week. Musk wrote that Trump won’t release the files of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein because the president is named in them, shared a post in support of impeaching Trump and replacing him with Vice President JD Vance, and floated the creation of a third political party.Trump, in turn, threatened repercussions for Musk’s businesses and warned him of “serious consequences” if he backed Democrats for office. But Musk blinked on Wednesday. He wrote that he regretted some of his posts about Trump and said some of them “went too far.” He also deleted many of those messages. His critics fired back: Are you back to defending someone who you said is on the Epstein files?— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) June 11, 2025So which one is it, is he in the Epstein files or did you just lie about it?— Daractenus (@Daractenus) June 11, 2025Whys he apologizing to the guy he said was on the Epstein files?— Dante 🔻 (@Vientisms) June 11, 2025Close