Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made regarding President Donald Trump.
“I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went to far,” he said.
The apology came after Musk and Trump had a public fallout, exchanging words on the platform, X, after the Tesla owner called the presidents tax bill a “disgusting abomination.”
The budget, which includes huge tax breaks and more defence spending, was passed by the House of Representatives last month and is now being considered by senators.
Musk urged Americans to call their representatives in Washington to “kill the bill” as he believed it would “cause a recession in the second half of the year”.
In response Trump said Musk had “lost his mind” and threatened to cancel his government contracts which have an estimated value of $38bn (£28bn). A significant chunk of that goes to Musk’s space technology company SpaceX.
“I think it’s a very bad thing, because he’s very disrespectful. You could not disrespect the office of the president,” Trump said in an interview with NBC on Sunday.
Musk deleted most of his posts over the weekend, including one that called for Trump’s impeachment and another claiming he won the election for him.
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