Donald Trump tried to cut ties with Elon Musk’s SpaceX following their fallout, it has been reported. As Mr Trump’s relationship with his former “first buddy” descended into a bitter feud, the US president suggested he could save public money by terminating contracts awarded to Mr Musk’s companies.

Elon Musk was referring to an earlier post by Donald Trump on Truth Social, which claimed that he wanted the Tesla CEO to “THRIVE”.

President Donald Trump met privately with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at the White House last week, according to sources cited by CNBC. The agenda for the hour-long meeting remains undisclosed. It comes as the Trump administration reconsiders its ties to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and evaluates new partners for the $175 billion Ground-Based Midcourse Defense missile defense system.

President Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to extend a surprising olive branch to Elon Musk, vowing he doesn’t plan to “destroy” the Tesla CEO’s empire and actually wants him “to thrive.” The shift in tone comes amid an explosive public feud that saw Musk accusing Trump of appearing in Jeffrey Epstein’s secret files—a claim that Trump has tried desperately to deflect.

Now that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and president Donald Trump are no longer seeing eye to eye, the White House is struggling to undercut the richest man in the world's influence in Washington, DC. As the Wall Street Journal reports,

Shares in Tesla were down in premarket trading as the carmaker lays out the risks from President Trump’s tariffs and his scrapping of tax credits.