Tech mogul Elon Musk offered a modest sign of peace toward the White House late Thursday after an all-out social media war with his ally, President Trump.
The peace signal was small and came in the form of a reply to an post on the social platform X by Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square and an ally of both men who has sought to cool tensions on the right on various issues before.
Musk posted the reply of “true” to a post by Ackman that said: “I support @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk and they should make peace for the benefit of our great country. We are much stronger together than apart.”
Trump earlier in the day had ripped Musk on camera and on social media, as the man who funneled hundreds of millions to Trump’s presidential campaign unleashed a fusillade against him.
Thursday night, however, Trump was quiet, and Politico reported that White House aides were arranging a phone call between the two men Friday as an attempt to settle the waters.
But NewsNation, citing a White House official, reported that as of early Friday morning, Trump and Musk had not spoken and a phone call was not planned.
A complete reconciliation looks tougher after Thursday, when Musk called for Trump’s impeachment and insulted Trump by saying he was in the files of Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious sex crimes offender.
And there were signs overnight that even if Musk was offering one positive sign with Trump, he was far from ready to make nice.
The pinned post at the top of Musk’s account on his social platform X remains a poll asking whether a third party should be started in the United States, a crystal clear sign of his antipathy toward Trump.
Just before 10 p.m. EDT, he posted another reference to Trump and the Epstein files, though it also mentioned the controversy surrounding his own reported ketamine use.
At 9:21 p.m. EDT, he posted that “nothing would matter” if the U.S. went broke, another clear criticism of the “big, beautiful bill” passed by the House that contains a version of Trump’s main legislative agenda.
It is that legislation that triggered the feud between the president and the world’s richest person.
Updated at 8:03 a.m. EDT
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