The White House on Friday was looking to turn the page on the blowup between President Trump and Elon Musk, shutting down talk of a potential call for the two men to reconcile and instead putting the focus on Trump’s agenda.

Officials close to the White House did not rule out the possibility of the two men patching things up at some point, but Trump and his aides signaled Friday that they were hoping to move past the drama of a tech mogul calling for his former ally’s impeachment and linking him to the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump himself signaled a desire to seemingly be done with the story after a wild day of insults.

“No. I won't be speaking to him for a while I guess, but I wish him well,” Trump told CNN in an interview.

White House officials felt Trump had taken the “high road” on Thursday and Friday in how he was handling the situation. They viewed Trump as having given Musk a warm send off from his role as a special government employee, only for Musk to escalate the situation with mounting attacks on the “big beautiful bill” that contains many of the president’s priorities.

Those same officials argued it was Musk who got intensely personal with claims that he was the reason Trump won the 2024 election and allegations that Trump is named in........

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