‘They went too far’: Musk says he regrets some of his posts about Trump
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., left, and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US. Picture: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg
Elon Musk has expressed contrition for some of his tweets about Donald Trump last week, in an apparent effort to retreat from an explosive falling out that has threatened to damage the Tesla boss’s business interests.
Musk was by far the biggest donor to Trump’s presidential campaign, but tensions between the two erupted into public view last week and rapidly escalated, as the world’s richest man called for the president’s impeachment and mocked his connections to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a series of posts.
