Tesla billionaire CEO Elon Musk has deleted some of his posts targeting United States President Donald Trump in the wake of public backlash. The first, accusing Trump of being connected to Jeffrey Epstein, and another supporting a call to replace Trump with Vice President JD Vance, with both disappearing without any explanation.
One of the missing posts contained an unverified claim about Trump’s name appearing in Epstein’s documents. While the original post wasn’t backed with any evidence, it now leads to a blank X page that simply says, “Hmm…this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.” The second deleted post was Musk replying “yes” to a user who called for Trump to be impeached and replaced by JD Vance, his current Vice.
Elon Musk deletes controversial posts amid backlash
JD Vance spoke about the deleted post in an interview Friday with podcaster and comedian Theo Von, saying Elon Musk was being emotional. “I think he’s making a huge mistake going after Trump,” Vance said, but added, “Elon is an emotional guy. He got frustrated.” The deleted posts came days after Musk started going after Trump over the administration’s massive tax and spending proposal called “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Musk, who recently wrapped up his role running the Department of Government Efficiency, had been publicly supportive of Trump just a week earlier. The sudden change shows how fast their relationship has collapsed. That bill appears to be the trigger. Musk has publicly expressed frustration that the legislation didn’t include key policy goals he had pushed for.
Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, spoke to CNN and dismissed Musk’s attacks as political whining. “This is an unfortunate episode from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted,” Karoline said. But the Epstein accusation is what escalated things. Elon claimed the reason certain Epstein documents haven’t been released is because Trump’s name is in them.
Speaking to Kristen Welker of NBC News on Saturday, Trump said Musk would face “serious consequences” if he backs Democratic candidates in the next election. “If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump said in the interview. “He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he added, though he didn’t explain what those consequences might be.
Trump also added that their relationship is over. “I gave him a lot of breaks, long before this happened,” he said. “I gave him breaks in my first administration and saved his life in my first administration. I have no intention of speaking to him.” When asked if the relationship is finished, Trump replied, “I would assume so.” He also criticized Musk for being disrespectful to the office of the president.