Elon Musk has deleted a tweet in which he alleged that Donald Trump was “in the Epstein files,” Report informs via The Telegraph.
The social media post was written on Thursday during a fierce war of words between the tech billionaire and the US president, marking an abrupt end to their close alliance after a dispute over Trump’s flagship spending Bill.
As the disagreement escalated, Musk also suggested that his former boss should be removed from office.
“The Epstein files” is a phrase colloquially used to describe intelligence US authorities hold on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced paedophile, who died in 2019.
“Time to drop the really big bomb: Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,” Musk wrote, before adding: “Have a nice day, DJT!”
However, by Saturday morning, Musk deleted his post on X, in a sign that the pair’s row could now be winding down.
Trump also appeared to suggest he was moving on from the spat, telling reporters during a flight to New Jersey: “Honestly I’ve been so busy working on China, working on Russia, working on Iran... I’m not thinking about Elon Musk, I just wish him well.”
The row began when Musk – who last week stepped down as head of the Department of Government Efficiency – criticised the president’s upcoming Bill as a “disgusting abomination” and claimed it would increase the national debt.
Trump retaliated by saying the billionaire was upset because one of his allies had not been chosen for a role in the new Nasa administration.
The president also suggested Musk was annoyed because the White House’s “big beautiful Bill” would end tax breaks for electric vehicles worth billions of dollars to his car company Tesla.
“He knew it better than almost anybody, and he never had a problem until right after he left," Trump said.