{"id":67809,"date":"2025-06-11T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67809"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:49:27","slug":"elon-musk-expresses-regret-over-posts-targeting-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/11\/elon-musk-expresses-regret-over-posts-targeting-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Expresses Regret Over Posts Targeting Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Wednesday expressed regret over some of his recent social media posts aimed at former U.S. President Donald Trump, admitting that his comments \u201cwent too far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tensions began after Musk harshly criticized Trump\u2019s tax and spending bill, describing it as a \u201cdisgusting abomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks sparked a public exchange between the two influential figures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,\u201d Musk wrote on his X handle (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>Though he did not specify which posts he was referring to, Musk has since deleted several critical tweets, including one that alleged Trump\u2019s name appeared in the still-sealed Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p>The rift intensified when Trump announced that their relationship was over. However, he later softened his stance, stating he would have no problem if Musk chose to reach out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a good relationship, and I wish him well,\u201d Trump said, while also suggesting he might reconsider Tesla\u2019s eligibility for government contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded with a heart emoji, signaling a possible thaw in tensions. Following the apology, Tesla shares rose by 2.44% in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Musk say he has calmed down and may be open to mending ties with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump confirmed he has no intention of discontinuing the Starlink satellite internet services provided to the White House by Musk\u2019s company, SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Wednesday expressed regret over some of his recent social media posts aimed at former U.S. President Donald Trump, admitting that his comments \u201cwent too far.\u201d The tensions began after Musk harshly criticized Trump\u2019s tax and spending bill, describing it as a \u201cdisgusting abomination.\u201d The remarks sparked a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67811,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67809\/revisions\/67811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}