USA: Elon Musk backs off from feud with Trump

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USA: Elon Musk backs off from feud with Trump  Early Wednesday morning, he posted “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.”  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/06/11/usa-elon-musk-backs-off-from-feud-with-trump  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00It was one of the most explosive social media exchanges in American politics.

00:07Relations between billionaire Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump

00:11rapidly deteriorated into an open feud on social media earlier this month.

00:16Now, Musk has backtracked on some of his social media posts about Trump

00:20and said that they went too far.

00:23The billionaire earlier deleted a post in which he claimed without evidence

00:26that the government was concealing information about the president's association

00:30with infamous paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

00:34Musk previously spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Trump's election campaign

00:38and played a key role in the first months of Trump's second term as president.

00:43But whether the apology will bring the billionaire once again close to the US president remains uncertain.

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