Elon Musk kisses the ring

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” Elon Musk wrote on X at 3 a.m., after six days of soul-searching.

Since this wee-hours confession from the onetime right-hand man of the President of the United States, several of Musk’s most searing posts about Trump from last Thursday have vanished from the internet – though screenshots are forever. Looking for Musk’s post alleging that the President was connected to the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein? Now you’ll see, “Hmm…this page doesn’t exist.” Based on the X CEO’s track record on the topic, Cockburn thinks “Godwin’s Law” could use a variation. Introducing Elon’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, if it involves Elon Musk, the probability of him accusing his adversary of being a pedophile approaches one.”

Also missing from Musk’s feed are his assertion that Trump should be impeached and J.D. Vance should replace him and that the President’s tariffs will cause a recession this year.

But Musk has not walked back much of what he posted last Thursday, including a plea for the formation of a third political party and a call to fire every senator and representative who “betrayed the American people” – aka, voted for the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” set to raise the national debt.

Trump does not appear rattled by his separation from the world’s richest man. The President has yet to walk back any of his own statements on Musk, who he claimed was “wearing thin” and just “went CRAZY!” On Saturday, Trump told NBC he was “too busy doing other things” to reconcile with the former DoGE head. “I have no intention of speaking to him,” Trump said.

In an interview with the New York Post, which aired Wednesday morning, Trump echoed his earlier sentiments, saying he hasn’t “thought too much about him in the last little while,” but he has “no hard feelings” towards Musk.

“I don’t blame him for anything but I was a little disappointed,” Trump said.

The President also did not appear vexed by Musk’s pedophilia finger-pointing. “That’s called ‘old news,’ that’s been old news, that has been talked about for years,” Trump said Saturday. “Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had nothing to do with it. It’s old news.”