Elon Musk appears to delete some explosive X posts amid feud with Trump

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Elon Musk speaks during a property lawsuit with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025.

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Elon Musk has appeared to delete immoderate of his posts connected his societal media level X that escalated his bitter feud with President Donald Trump this week.

One post, nary longer disposable arsenic of Saturday morning, accused Trump of being mentioned successful "files" of the precocious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Musk's accusation, which the White House has disputed, marked an escalation successful the nationalist spat betwixt the men.

"Hmm...this leafage doesn't exist. Try searching for thing else," said the X page that erstwhile displayed Musk's post.

On Thursday, Musk besides responded "yes" to a user's station that called for Trump to beryllium impeached and replaced with Vice President JD Vance.

That station was besides no longer available arsenic of Saturday morning.

In an interrogation connected Friday with "manosphere" comedian Theo Von, Vance said Musk was making a "huge mistake" going aft Trump, portion attempting to downplay the billionaire's attacks arsenic an "emotional guy" who got frustrated.

It was not instantly wide wherefore Musk deleted the posts. The White House did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for comment.

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Nonetheless, it's the latest twist successful the rapidly deteriorating relationship betwixt the onetime allies.

Just implicit 1 week ago, Trump and Musk exchanged compliments astatine the decision of Musk's authoritative clip starring the Department of Government Efficiency.

But their relationship devolved this week arsenic the 2 men exchanged barbs connected societal media, stemming successful ample portion from Musk's vocal absorption to Trump's "big, beauteous bill," CNBC antecedently reported.

In 1 of the now-deleted posts, Musk accused Trump of being mentioned successful files related to Epstein, without providing immoderate grounds of his claim.

Musk alleged, "that is the existent crushed they person not been made public."

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt rejected Musk's allegations.

"This is an unfortunate occurrence from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill due to the fact that it does not see the policies helium wanted," she said successful a statement to CNN.

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