Musk regrets some of his Trump criticisms, says they ‍‍`went too far‍‍`

Elon Musk, the world‍‍`s richest person and Donald Trump‍‍`s former advisor, said Wednesday he regretted some of his recent criticisms of the US president, after the pair‍‍`s public falling-out last week.

"I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far," Musk wrote on his social media platform X.
Musk‍‍`s expression of regret came just days after Trump threatened the tech billionaire with "serious consequences" if he sought to punish Republicans who vote for a controversial spending bill.

Their blistering break-up -- largely carried out on social media before a riveted public on Thursday last week -- was ignited by Musk‍‍`s harsh criticism of Trump‍‍`s so-called "big, beautiful" spending bill, which is currently before Congress.

Some lawmakers who were against the bill had called on Musk -- one of the Republican Party‍‍`s biggest financial backers in last year‍‍`s presidential election -- to fund primary challenges against Republicans who voted for the legislation.
"He‍‍`ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that," Trump, who also branded Musk "disrespectful," told NBC News on Saturday, without specifying what those consequences would be.