Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Linking Trump to ‘Epstein Files’
The billionaire signaled that he wants back into the MAGA fold after being ripped for going“too far.”

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Former “First Buddy” Elon Musk has deleted a spate of explosive tweets in which he claimed President Donald Trump “is in the Epstein files.”
He added in the since-scrubbed June 5 tweet, “That is the real reason they have not been made public.” He then promised, “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
The dramatic claim came amid Musk’s nearly three-day blitzkrieg attack against Trump, urging Congress to “kill” the MAGA head’s “big beautiful bill,” ripping it as “ugly and “pork-filled,” and suggesting Trump should be impeached again for his plan to add an estimated $2.4 trillion to the federal deficit through the megabill.
Yet Musk appears to have reset and climbed out of his “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” as the president labeled it, amid MAGA’s calls for the billionaire to make amends with the Republican president.
Elon,
— James Fishback (@j_fishback) June 6, 2025
Keep tweeting about your “new political party” and Japanese fertility rates all you want.
You owe President Trump a full-throated apology, and every hour you delay, it’ll make an eventual apology less sincere.
You can substantively disagree with the President on policy,… https://t.co/vWFcjzoyCI
Investor and former DOGE architect James Fishback—who told Politico that he left the so-called department amid the Trump-Musk feud—tweeted Friday that Musk owed Trump a “full-throated apology.”
He added, “And every hour you delay, it’ll make an eventual apology less sincere.”
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Amid disagreements on policy between the Trump and Musk, Fishback said Musk “should not have baselessly and personally attacked him.”

Trump was pictured with Epstein at the Victoria's Secret "Angels" party in New York City in April 1997.
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Musk used Fishback’s tweet as an opportunity to share his side, writing in successive comments under the post: “What’s the apology for exactly.” He added, “Be precise,” declaring, “I will apologize profusely as soon as there is a full dump of the Epstein files.”
Musk’s comments under the post have also since been deleted.
Keeping the pressure on Musk, Fishback followed up by sharing his Friday appearance on CNN with two specific directives on why the Tesla CEO should apologize to Trump.
Elon Musk has to apologize to President Trump for two things.
— James Fishback (@j_fishback) June 7, 2025
First, randomly calling for the impeachment of the duly elected President of the United States over a policy disagreement.
That’s not OK. I mean, at least the Democrats had the common courtesy of making up the… pic.twitter.com/JGLTIhwSNr
“First, randomly calling for the impeachment of the duly elected President of the United States over a policy disagreement,” Fishback wrote. “Second, and it just pains me to bring this up, is the slanderous accusation that somehow the President of the United States was a co-conspirator in a multi-decade sex trafficking ring of minors.”
Attempting to play peacekeeper, Fishback added that it was “not okay” for Musk to drag Trump “in the mud” with “scumbag” Epstein.

President Donald Trump meets with the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the White House Oval Office in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 2025.
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“As Americans, we are allowed to disagree on the substance of the issue—but ad hominem attacks have no place in the public square,” Fishback wrote.
Another commentator added, “The Epstein comment went too far, whether it is true or not.”
Trump attacked Elon personally first using falsehoods. That being said, Trump is not the enemy, and Elon should not make literally every powerful figure on the planet into an enemy.
— economatrix (@economatrix1) June 7, 2025
The Epstein comment went too far, whether it is true or not.
However, other commentators weren’t convinced Musk owed Trump anything at all.
“He owes Trump exactly nothing,” commented X user John Roush under Fishback’s post. “He made the mistake of believing Trump’s talk about reigning in spending, agreed to try and help, ended up becoming one of the most reviled men in America, and then found out that Trump doesn’t give a damn about spending & was just using him as an election prop.”
Rumors have swirled that White House aides have set up a deescalation call between Trump and Musk. Despite this, BBC News reported that the president is “not interested” in making up with Musk.
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