Elon Musk net worth: The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, saw his net worth increase modestly after he expressed regret about remarks made against US President Donald Trump.Forbes’ real-time billionaire tracking system indicated that Elon Musk’s fortune increased by $191 million to $411.4 billion, according to an ET report. This uptick occurred shortly after his acknowledgement that certain previous posts directed at Trump might have been ‘gone too far’.Musk wrote on X on Wednesday: “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.”Subsequently, Reuters reported that Elon Musk had contacted Trump via telephone prior to making his public apology.The White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt later confirmed that Trump had received Musk’s message and was thankful. She stated that the President appreciated Elon’s morning statement whilst maintaining their focus on addressing national matters.In his conversation with the New York Post about Musk’s apology, Trump expressed his positive reception, saying: “I thought it was very nice that he did that.”The initial conflict arose when Musk openly criticised Trump’s economic legislation, specifically mocking the President’s termed “The Big Beautiful Bill” by instead calling it “The Big Ugly Bill.”Prior to his series of online critiques against the bill, which lasted three days, Musk had resigned from his position at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
