Elon Musk admits he has 'regrets' after explosive Trump row

Elon Musk has said helium "regrets" immoderate of his posts astir Donald Trump, saying they "went excessively far".

Musk posted a bid of tweets connected X past week successful a fiery speech betwixt the pair.

Among them, the Tesla and SpaceX main enforcement described the US president's sweeping taxation and spending measure arsenic a "disgusting abomination".

Last Thursday, the billionaire besides posted connected X saying the president appeared successful files relating to the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The station was deleted by Sunday, on with immoderate others accusing the president of wrongdoing.

The White House dismissed Musk's Epstein claims astatine the time, with property caput Karoline Leavitt saying: "This is an unfortunate occurrence from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill [a Republican taxation and spending bill] due to the fact that it does not see the policies helium wanted.

"The president is focused connected passing this historical portion of authorities and making our state large again."

Musk did not specify which posts helium regretted.

In different station past Thursday, Musk attacked Mr Trump's tariffs, saying they "will origin a recession successful the 2nd fractional of this year".

In response, Mr Trump said Musk had "lost his mind" successful an interrogation with interview with ABC News, threatened to cancel authorities contracts with Musk's companies and said helium had asked the billionaire to permission the White House.

But yesterday, Musk's begetter Errol Musk told Sky News' Moscow analogous Ivor Bennett: "It's similar immoderate argument. Everybody astatine immoderate constituent says I'll ne'er marque up, but past they bash later."

He said the statement apt happened due to the fact that of "emotions welling retired of hand".

"They've had 5 months of aggravated time and night, hardly immoderate sleep, and anybody who went done that would cognize your nerves are beauteous overmuch shredded aft that time."

He besides said his lad substance him saying: "Don't worry, we're sorting it out."

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The spat deed Tesla shares, which closed down 14.3% past Thursday, losing astir $150bn (£111bn) successful value.

They've since regained overmuch of their worth compared to the opening of the month.