Trump considers Musk Starlink for Iran web amid warming ties

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk is more and more drifting again into President Donald Trump ’s MAGA orbit after their public blowup in June 2025 led to months of icy distance between the pair.

That thaw surfaced publicly once more over the weekend. Trump talked about Musk by identify Sunday when requested by the media whether or not he would lean on Starlink, Musk’s satellite tv for pc web constellation, to assist ship web entry to Iran as residents take to the streets in mass protests towards Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime.

"We might get the web going if that is attainable," Trump advised the media Sunday whereas aboard Air Power One. "We might converse to Elon. As a result of as you realize, he is superb at that type of factor. He is obtained an excellent firm. So we might converse to Elon Musk."

The president added, "I am gonna name him as quickly as I am completed with you."

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President Donald Trump's friendship with Elon Musk is warming up once more because the president reignites reward and mentions of Musk in public. (Brandon Bell/Getty Photographs)

SpaceX didn't instantly reply to Fox Digital's request for touch upon the president's remarks.

Trump's remark is the most recent sign that the Trump–Musk friendship is warming after months of the pair spatting or having cordial interactions — a stark distinction to their cozy relationship whereas on the 2024 marketing campaign path and the early days of the administration.

When requested Monday for updates on the president's friendship with Musk, and if Trump's feedback have been extra reflective of the urgency in Iran, the White Home directed Fox Digital to Trump praising Musk Jan. 4.

" Elon's nice. I say about Elon, he is 80% tremendous genius, and 20%, he makes errors. However he is man. He is a well-meaning individual," Trump stated of Musk whereas aboard Air Power One Jan 4.

Trump's feedback observe the pair sharing a "pretty dinner" collectively at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Musk reported on X on the time.

Simply roughly a yr in the past, Musk was described as Trump's "first buddy," because the media took be aware of the pair's shut working relationship, which included Musk serving as a particular worker of the federal authorities as Trump unleashed the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE). Particular authorities staff are generally consultants that the federal authorities hires on a short lived foundation for not more than 130 days a yr.

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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has indicated he might help Republican candidates within the upcoming midterm elections. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP through Getty Photographs)

Musk would sleep on the White Home on late work nights, attend Cupboard conferences and change into a typical face on the White Home campus when he served as the general public chief of DOGE — the federal government workplace Trump established in January 2025 to hunt out and finish potential fraud, waste and mismanagement throughout the federal authorities.

"He is one of many biggest enterprise leaders and innovators the world has ever produced," Trump stated in Might, when Musk's tenure as a particular authorities worker ran dry of its 130 days. "He stepped ahead to place his very nice abilities into the service of our nation, and we respect it."

Days later, Musk started publicly criticizing the "large, lovely invoice" — a large tax and spending package deal that advances Trump's agenda on taxes, immigration, vitality, protection and the nationwide debt — as a "disgusting abomination."

Musk warned on X it will be the "BIGGEST DEBT ceiling improve in HISTORY" — then escalated the spat with a private jab that "@RealDonaldTrump is within the Epstein recordsdata."

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Trump advised the media that he was dissatisfied in Musk's feedback, whereas the tech billionaire reeled in a few of his commentary, remarking he typically "went too far." The president stated in 2025 that his relationship with Musk modified when he started discussing plans to get rid of the electrical automobile mandate, which might have an effect on Musk's signature electrical firm, Tesla.

President Donald Trump stated he likes Elon Musk "lots" after the pair confronted a rift over the "large, lovely invoice" in 2025. (Brandon Bell/Getty Photographs)

The pair abruptly parted methods in June. Musk has sporadically signaled help for the Trump administration, together with simply weeks later in July when he praised Trump's actions in Israel to finish the struggle with Gaza.

Trump signed the "large, lovely invoice" into legislation on the Fourth of July.

Their relationship has been on an obvious mend since at the very least September 2025, when the pair was seen sitting subsequent to one another and chatting throughout Turning Level USA founder Charlie Kirk's memorial service in Arizona following his stunning assassination.

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Musk attended a White House dinner for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia Nov. 18, 2025, and advised the media in December 2025, "I like Elon lots," however stated he was not sure if the tech chief was again in his pal circle following the June fallout.