Axios further reports that only the day after alleging online that Trump’s name did indeed appear in the “Epstein files,” Musk hopped on a call with Vice President JD Vance and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to ask how he might go about making amends. The following morning, he deleted his posts, going on to publicly state he had taken things “too far.”

The Trump administration is weaponizing federal agencies to prop up right-wing media in an unprecedented assault on free speech — with the Federal Trade Commission now forcing advertisers to return toElon Musk's X platform through a controversial merger condition,