Donald Trump reveals why he can't forgive Elon Musk yet: 'I don’t blame Musk but..'

Entrepreneur Elon Musk may have apologised to US President Donald Trump for his scathing posts on X, a culmination of their explosive spat, but the President is in no mood to forgive him yet. 

Musk walked back on his missives, stating he "regrets some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. "They went too far,” Musk wrote on X Thursday morning. 

But, Trump, though he isn't angry with Musk at the moment, may not be ready for a patch-up. The President, while speaking with New York Post podcast 'Pod Force One', said he doesn't blame Musk for the feud but is disappointed.  

"Look, I have no hard feelings," the 78-year-old President said. "I was really surprised that that happened. He went after a bill that’s phenomenal. …He just — I think he feels very badly that he said that, actually," he added.

Trump, however, seemed to acknowledge podcaster Miranda Devine's suggestion that Musk seemed to treat him "a bit like a father".  "I was disappointed in him, but, you know, it is what it is," Trump said. “That happens. Things like that happen. I don’t blame him for anything. I was a little disappointed."

Devine later told an interview that though Trump was open to reconciling with Musk at some point in the future, he is not just  "too busy at the moment trying to end two world wars, dealing with riots in L.A., and bringing the economy back."

Though he gave no hints of patching up with Musk, Trump seemed to have mellowed down from his earlier stance wherein he said Musk "lost his mind" and has gone crazy. "The poor guy’s got a problem," Trump told CNN. He had also added that he "was not even thinking about Elon” and wouldn’t be speaking to Musk "for a while."

Trump also reportedly asked his aides and advisers about Musk's alleged drug use and whether they believed the entrepreneur's erratic behaviour was the result of it.