{"id":633,"date":"2025-09-05T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=633"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:37:25","slug":"trump-extends-olive-branch-to-musk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/trump-extends-olive-branch-to-musk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump extends olive branch to Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US president hailed the tech billionaire as a \u201csuper genius\u201d but said that he should abandon the idea of creating his own political party<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has said he still likes Elon Musk despite a major spat between the two earlier this year. Trump nonetheless warned that the Tesla CEO’s plans to create his own political party would prove fruitless.<\/p>\n

“[Musk] is a good person,”<\/em> Trump told Scott Jennings, the host of the Scott Jennings Show on Salem Radio, on Wednesday. He also referred to the US-based tycoon as a “good man”<\/em> and a “man of common sense.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Musk supported Trump in the 2024 election and temporarily served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) before the two had a public falling-out over the president’s “Big Beautiful Bill”<\/em> spending package.<\/p>\n

According to the US president, the billionaire is “80% super genius and then 20% he’s got some problems.”<\/em> Trump also stated that he has “always”<\/em> liked Musk and continues to think of him favorably.<\/p>\n

Trump nonetheless maintained that Musk’s ambition to create a new US political party would prove fruitless. “What’s he going to do? He’s going to go with the radical left lunatics? … I don’t think he has a choice.”<\/em> The president added that he would like the tech mogul to support the Republicans again.<\/p>\n

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After resigning from DOGE, the billionaire announced he would start his own political faction to challenge the two-party system and field candidates in the 2026 midterms. Last month, he doubled down on his plan, shooting down a Wall Street Journal piece claiming he had abandoned the idea.<\/p>\n

He ventured at one point that his America Party would concentrate on the US Congress ahead of the 2026 midterms “but backing a candidate for president is not out of the question.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

Trump had previously called Musk a “train wreck”<\/em> and argued that third parties “have never succeeded in the US,”<\/em> warning that the billionaire’s actions would only create “chaos.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking about the falling-out with Musk on Wednesday, Trump said that the tech entrepreneur “went off the reservation, and he wished he didn’t do it.”<\/em> Musk has not commented yet on the president’s conciliatory words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US president hailed the tech billionaire as a \u201csuper genius\u201d but said that he should abandon the idea of creating his own political party US President Donald Trump has said he still likes Elon Musk despite a major spat between the two earlier this year. Trump nonetheless warned that the…<\/p>\n

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