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Opinion: Musk can’t put his words back in his mouth
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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, right, speak in the Oval Office before departing the White House in Washington, D.C., on the way to Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on March 14, 2025. Trump and Musk's unlikely political marriage exploded in a fiery public divorce on June 5, 2025. The President Trump said in a televised Oval Office diatribe that he was "very disappointed" after his former aide and top donor criticized his "big, beautiful" spending bill before Congress. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
There is a wide divide between Elon Musk and me. It is characterized by a very important fact in our upbringing, and that is the fact that my mother liked me, and Elon Musk’s mother did not like him.