'Keeping him up at night': CNN host mocks Elon Musk's late-night apology

CNN's Erica Hill needled tech mogul Elon Musk's late-night about-face in his feud against President Donald Trump.

The president and his billionaire benefactor publicly split last week after Musk lambasted the so-called "big beautiful bill" as a "disgusting abomination," and the break-up quickly escalated into a bitter war of words on social media that Musk now regrets.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week," Musk said in a post on X. "They went too far."

He didn't specify which posts fall into that category, but over the weekend Musk appeared to delete a post threatening to "drop the really big bomb" on Trump by revealing his ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but the guest host for "CNN This Morning" noted the overnight timestamp for Musk's apparent mea culpa.

"Well, it turns out regrets, he's got a few," Hill said, paraphrasing Frank Sinatra's enduring hit, "My Way." "Elon Musk, second thoughts. It appears about all those unkind tweets he rattled off last week calling for the president to be impeached, suggesting without evidence that the name 'Donald Trump' appears in the unreleased Epstein files, in fact, the bromance breakup appears to be keeping Musk up at night. How do we know that? Well, we're just looking at the timestamp here, but at 3:04 a.m. so just about three-and-a-half hours ago this morning."

She read the Tesla CEO's walk-back of his angry outbursts, saying the statement sounded like a child's apology.

"That is probably like the most perfect response you could have from one of your kids when they realize they messed up like, 'Oh, hey – I went too far,'" Hill said.

Former Republican congressman Charlie Dent said Musk's entire stint in the government was regrettable.

"Of course, he has to have regrets, not just about the tweets, but about the whole DOGE process," Dent said. "Remember how this started off? He said he was going to find $2 trillion in savings, then they shaved it down to $1 trillion, and they said, 'Oh, we're not going to look at Social Security and Medicare and all the big areas where the federal government spends money,' and then they talk about bringing out wood chippers, and there's the chainsaw and, you know, and the images of the wealthiest man in the world, then denying food assistance and medical assistance to some of the most desperately poor people in the world. Then you wonder why people don't want to buy your cars."

"So I think he probably has a few regrets well beyond his latest fight with Donald Trump," Dent added, "so he's got a lot to think about."

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