Kanye West urges Trump-Musk reconciliation amid escalating feud on X
-Reuters
Disgraced rapper and entrepreneur Kanye West, who now goes by “Ye,” has weighed in on the escalating public fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, urging the two influential figures to reconcile.
Broooos please noooooo 🫂 We love you both so much
“Broooos please noooooo,” Ye wrote on X, the platform owned by Musk, along with an emoji of two people hugging. “We love you both so much.”
Ye’s comments come after a turbulent few years in which he vacillated between supporting Trump’s campaigns and launching his own unsuccessful presidential bid. He has also faced widespread backlash after making antisemitic statements earlier this year, which he later dismissed as a “social experiment.”
His plea for unity follows a dramatic public spat between the former president and the tech mogul. Over the past three days, the relationship between Musk and Trump has collapsed, with Musk alleging on X that Trump was named in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump, in turn, hinted that the federal government could pull funding from Musk’s space programs.
On Thursday, the feud escalated, with Musk leveraging his far larger social media platform to lob pointed accusations and memes at Trump. Musk’s X posts reached an audience of hundreds of millions, compared to Trump’s more muted messages on his Truth Social platform, which has a significantly smaller user base.
The clash spilled into the stock market, with shares of both Tesla and Trump Media & Technology Group falling amid the chaos.
As Musk’s posts continue to attract widespread attention and Trump struggles to match the visibility from Truth Social, the episode underscores how power dynamics in the digital age are shifting — where control of a platform can rival even the influence of the presidency.