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Elon Musk has once again dropped a passive-aggressive comment on his MAGA friend Donald Trump, telling Joe Rogan that the US president is \u201cnot perfect\u201d but \u201cnot evil,\u201d describing GOP leader as a \u201cproduct of his time.\u201d The billionaire CEO made the remarks during a three-hour interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, where he took a moment back and recalled his rollercoaster of a friendship with Trump. He seemingly defended parts of Trump’s political record.<\/p>\n
Trump Admits Soft Spot for Elon Musk Despite Explosive Rift, Epstein Claims, and Public Attacks<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people still think, you know, Trump is like the devil, basically,\u201d Musk said. \u201cAnd, I mean, I think, I think Trump actually is not perfect, but, but he\u2019s not evil. Trump is not evil. I spent a lot of time with, with him, and he\u2019s, I mean, he\u2019s a product of his time, but he is not, he\u2019s not evil.\u201dThe Tesla and SpaceX boss insisted that the media exaggerates Trump\u2019s flaws and treats him unfairly. \u201cThe media treats him like he\u2019s super evil,\u201d Musk told Rogan, who agreed that news coverage of the president was \u201cpretty shocking.\u201d Rogan added, \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s evil either, but if you look at the media coverage\u2014\u201d before Musk cut in to continue his criticism of the press.<\/p>\n
The big beautiful breakup<\/p>\n
The conversation showed Musk\u2019s swaying towards the right-wing despite his fallout with Trump earlier this year. Both men were once close allies, but had a dramatic public breakup in June after Musk accused Trump of blocking the release of the Epstein files because his own name appeared in them. The accusation triggered a furious response from the president, who retaliated by threatening to cancel federal contracts with Musk\u2019s companies.Their feud had followed months of tension. In May, Musk criticised Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill,\u201d a major spending package he claimed would worsen the national deficit. The dispute came after Musk\u2019s government-backed project, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), collapsed.Musk had once played a key role in helping Trump reclaim political dominance during the second MAGA wave, using his social media platform X and his wealth to amplify Trump\u2019s message. The two men appear to have reconciled in recent weeks. They reunited at a vigil for the slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. This week, Musk\u2019s companies received a $2 billion government contract from the White House.<\/p>\n
A common stance on border policies<\/p>\n
During the Rogan interview, Musk also defended Trump\u2019s immigration policies, arguing that strong border enforcement was essential to preserve fair elections. \u201cIf Trump had lost, there would never have been another real election again, because Trump is actually enforcing the border,\u201d he claimed. Musk acknowledged that immigration enforcement could sometimes be \u201coverzealous\u201d but argued that \u201cperfection is impossible.\u201dHe added, \u201cNow, you cannot point to situations where there\u2019s been, you know, immigration, you know, enforcement has been overzealous, because they are not going to be perfect. There will be cases where they\u2019ve been overzealous in expelling illegals. But if you say that the standard must be perfection for expelling legals, then you will not get any expulsion, because perfection is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has once again dropped a passive-aggressive comment on his MAGA friend Donald Trump, telling Joe Rogan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,81721,77668,81722,111,139,69,81723,81724],"class_list":["post-114760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-elon-musk-donald-trump-friendship","tag-joe-rogan-experience","tag-musk-spacex-tesla","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-trump-immigration-policies","tag-us-president-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}