About a month after President Donald Trump threatened Elon Musk’s government contracts, he has now reversed course in a message that surprised supporters and critics alike. The South African-born billionaire was an outspoken MAGA supporter and invested millions in Trump’s presidential campaign before their bitter breakup.

A once-close alliance between President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk has spectacularly imploded, with Trump lashing out at Musk for forming a new political party. The President called the move “ridiculous” and asserted that his former ally had gone “completely off the rails.

According to senior administration officials, Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy informed President Trump in May 2025 that his name appeared multiple times in the Justice Department’s trove of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.

A Gulfstream G700 private jet linked to Bezos landed in Dulles, Virginia, outside Washington, on July 14 before taking off the next day.

President Donald Trump and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos met each other at the White House in Washington, D.C, last week. The two high-profile individuals reportedly chatted for an hour, and details about the conversation have been kept strictly private.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles described the fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk as “very troublesome,” yet just a “little hiccup” for Trump’s administration.