WASHINGTON – Billionaire Elon Musk said on June 11 that he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump in a message on his social media platform X.

“I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Mr Musk wrote.

Mr Trump and Mr Musk began exchanging insults last week on social media, with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO describing the president’s sweeping tax and spending Bill as a “disgusting abomination”.

Mr Musk’s expression of regret came just days after Mr Trump threatened the tech billionaire with “serious consequences” if he sought to punish Republicans who vote for the controversial Bill.

It also comes days after Mr Trump said his relationship with Mr Musk was over.

Some lawmakers who were against the Bill had called on Mr Musk  – one of the Republican Party’s biggest financial backers in last year’s presidential election – to fund primary challenges against Republicans who voted for the legislation.

“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” Mr Trump, who also branded Mr Musk “disrespectful”, told NBC News on June 7, without specifying what those consequences would be. REUTERS, AFP

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