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Elon Musk seems to be keen to deescalate his feud with Donald Trump.

The Tesla CEO replied to Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman’s name for he and Musk to unify as a result of they’re “stronger together.”

“You’re not wrong,” Musk replied.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk could also be talking tomorrow, in line with Politician’s White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns, who stated she spoke to the president on Thursday evening.

According to Burns, White House aides have suggested Trump to mood his response to Musk if the boys speak.

Trump reportedly instructed Politico that issues had been going “very well” for him and bragged about his polling quantity.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Sean Hannity’s present on Thursday, and downplayed the persevering with feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.

She stated that Musk has a “right to speak for his companies … but that Trump has a responsibility to fight for this country.”

Hannity additionally tried to downplay the feud as simply “powerful men” having a “policy disagreement,” and likened it to highschool hockey teammates combating one another solely to grow to be pals once more the subsequent day.

Musk and Trump aren’t combating instantly, nonetheless; they’re sniping at one another not directly over social media. They additionally aren’t highschool boys.

Musk has co-signed a name for Trump’s impeachment and insinuated that the president is a rapist pedophile, and Trump has threatened to finish Musk’s authorities subsidies.

House Democrats are asking the Department of Justice and the FBI whether or not or not Elon Musk’s claims that Donald Trump is on the Epstein shopper checklist are true, in line with an Axios report.

Musk accused Trump of being within the Epstein recordsdata on Thursday when the 2 males’s relationship imploded on social media.

Now, Democratic Congressmen Stephen Lynch and Robert Garcia have despatched a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel requesting that he “immediately clarify whether [Musk’s] allegation is true.”

The lawmakers requested a timeline for the Department of Justice’s efforts to assessment and declassify the Epstein recordsdata, for an outline of Trump’s involvement in reviewing the paperwork, and an evidence for why earlier variations of the shopper checklist had been closely redacted, in line with the report.

A White House spokesperson instructed Axios that the Democrats are engaged in “another baseless stunt” of their efforts to undermine Trump.

Steve Bannon has referred to as for Donald Trump to research Elon Musk’s citizenship and to deport him within the wake of the 2 males’s feud.

Musk joined some X customers Thursday who had been throwing insults at Bannon. He stated that Bannon was “peak r*****.”

Vice President JD Vance joked that it had been a “slow news day” on Thursday.

The vice chairman shared a picture of himself and podcaster Theo Von, joking that there wouldn’t be a lot for them to speak about, regardless of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s huge implosion.

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was requested by a Spectrum News 1 NY reporter to touch upon the continued feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

“Oh man, the girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

Several Republican senators have questioned the price of an upcoming army parade set to happen on President Donald Trump’s birthday.

The parade is predicted to be held in Washington, D.C., on June 14 to rejoice the Army’s 250th birthday, which additionally occurs to fall on Trump’s 79th birthday.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, voiced his concern concerning the spectacle after he discovered it might value an estimated $25 million to $40 million, per Politico.

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Senator Adam Schiff stated that Donald Trump’s administration giving Elon Musk authorities contracts and subsidies — after which threatening to take them away — was each a battle of curiosity and confirmed the administration’s favoritism.