Did Donald Trump post on his Truth Social account that he is "...open to reconciling with Elon ..."? No, that's not true: The viral image of the supposed Trump post on the social media platform he owns is fabricated. There is no trace of such a post on Trump's Truth Social account and none was indexed by Google. After their very public falling out in early June 2025 dominated global headlines, Trump announcing a rapprochement with billionaire industrialist Elon Musk would have been a major story, but there has been no evidence-based reporting on such a post.
The claim originated in a June 11, 2025 X.com post (archived here) on the @stillgray account under the caption "BREAKING: " It opened:
Trump says he's open to reconciling his relationship with Elon Musk.
Here's what the X.com post looked like when this fact check was written:
(X.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Lead Stories reviewed Donald Trump's account on Truth Social (archived here) and did not see a post like this published in the week after the President and the billionaire feuded over Trump-imposed tariffs and over the proposed federal budget's impacts on the national debt.
A Google search for the phrase "reconciling with Elon" limited to links containing truthsocial.com/@realdonaldtrump (using the "site:" search operator) returned no results (archived here), indicating Google didn't recently index such a post.
(Source: Trumpstruth.org screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Lead Stories has collected past fact checks arising from the June, 2025 feud between Musk and Trump here.
