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Show Over?

6/11/25

By:

Michael K.

From the “Impeachment Call” to “I Regret…”: An Intermission in the Political-Corporate Reality Show of Musk vs. Trump.

Trump Musk battle

In the June 6, 2025 piece “When a Billionaire Takes on Power: The Battle for the Future of Space and Electric Vehicles” I vividly chronicled the height of that public “brawl”: from the cry of “disgusting abomination” aimed at the tax bill to Trump’s threats to cancel SpaceX and Tesla contracts and subsidies. At that moment, it felt as if the clash between these two titans might trigger a geopolitical implosion in both ratings and markets.

Yet today, June 11, 2025, has brought a dramatic turn. According to The Guardian, Elon Musk posted on X a terse but telling message:

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.”

That very morning, Tesla shares jumped 2.6 % in pre-market trading—investors took the apology as a de-escalation signal and refocused on the upcoming “robotaxi” launch in Austin, Texas.

Analysts at Reuters suggest the apology is largely pragmatic—a PR gambit to protect Musk’s business interests from potential political fallout and to restore market confidence after a more than 14 % slide in the share price just days ago.

What began as a principled critique of electric-vehicle subsidies has today boiled down to a simpler question: can a billionaire and a politician resume normal business relations when billions of dollars in contracts and the future of space missions hang in the balance?

The real irony here is that behind the spectacle of a public feud lies a very real stake—the rollout of the robotaxi, fresh NASA contracts, and investors’ faith that Silicon Valley and the White House won’t stage another bloody showdown. Musk’s admission that his tweets “went too far” sounds like a producer’s cue: “Show’s over—time to cash out.”

A couple of lines—“I regret…”—were enough to soothe the markets and pull the plug on the drama. But as we prepare the next episode of this political-corporate reality show, let’s remember—the main act is still to come, and the stakes are far too high to leave everything to raw emotion.

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