Musk posts about Trump and Epstein again. Here's what he had to say this time – The Commercial Appeal
Elon Musk is once again making posts about President Donald Trump on X.
Musk has made repeated posts regarding the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, posting questions about the whereabouts of all the evidence against Epstein andmaking jokes about who visited Epstein’s island. On July 17, he decided to bring the president into the fray.
Musk also shared a post by U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, promoting legislation that would require the government to release all documents related to Epstein, a wealthy convicted sex offender who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
After Trump described the Epstein saga as a “hoax,” Musk wrote July 17: “Wow I can’t believe Epstein killed himself before realizing it was all a hoax.”
Later that day, the president announced in a social media post that he is directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce more Epstein documents amid public clamor for the records.
Here’s what to know about Musk and Trump’s recently rocky relationship.
On the campaign trail and when he took office for his second term, Trump promised to release the Epstein files ― documents reported to have the names of high-profile people who were his clients ― but now his administration states that they don’t exist.
In March, Bondi touted that she had a “truckload” of Epstein files to review and potentially release. Four months later, Bondi’s Justice Department stated that there was no “client list” and no further disclosure was required.
Trump has backed Bondi and called the Republicans who are looking for more information on the matter “weaklings” who fell for the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax”.
In a series of June 5 posts on X, Musk claimed Trump wouldn’t have his current position without the help of the billionaire.
“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk wrote on X.
Musk then spent most of the afternoon posting his opposition to Trump’s spending bill, resurfacing old tweets of the president, making claims against the president and interacting with supporters.
Musk has since deleted several tweets, including one that said, “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.”
The “Epstein files” references flight logs and the scandal surrounding the multimillionaire’s exploitation of teenage girls. Trump and Epstein were filmed and photographed together at parties, and in 2002, he praised the wealthy businessman as a “terrific guy.” About 200 pages of documents from the Epstein files were released in February 2025.
Other tweets Musk deleted include one stating that he was never shown the tax bill recently passed by the House, and a post claiming that President Trump lied in a Truth Social post, which stated that the President asked Musk to leave his position.
Early on the morning of June 11, Musk issued an apology for the posts he made about President Trump last week.
“I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk wrote in a post on his social media platform X, without specifying which posts he was talking about.
While there is no way to know the real reason for Musk issuing the apology, many in the comments of his post speculated that it was due to the losses Tesla has suffered this week following the posts.
Fortune reported that Musk lost $34 billion personally during his exchange with President Trump.
When the stock market closed on June 5, Tesla shares were valued at $284.68, a sharp decline from the $322.52 they were valued at when the market opened that day.
Prices have risen steadily since then, with shares valued at $326.09 when the stock market closed on June 10. However, this is still a bit short of the $332.05 that stocks were valued at on June 4 before their spat.
Jordan Green covers trending news for The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at jordan.green@commercialappeal.com.