The hostile public feud between SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump may be losing steam. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)
"Governor Gavin Newscum and ‘Mayor’ Bass should apologize to the people of Los Angeles for the absolutely horrible job that they’ve done, and this now includes the ongoing L.A. riots," Trump said late Sunday in the post Musk shared. "These are not protesters, they are troublemakers and insurrectionists."
Additionally, Musk also re-posted one of Vice President JD Vance’s posts on X about the riots.
"This moment calls for decisive leadership," Vance said, sharing a screenshot of a post from Trump about how his administration would address the riots. "The president will not tolerate rioting and violence."
Specifically, Trump said that members of his Cabinet, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi, would "take all such action necessary" to stop the riots and a "Migrant Invasion."
"Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free," Trump said in the Sunday post.
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President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jun. 5, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Musk jumped onto X to respond to Trump's statements, pushing to remove the "disgusting pork" included in the measure and claiming it was untrue he had been shown the measure "even once."
The two continued to publicly take aim at each other, with Musk claiming that Trump wouldn’t have won the 2024 election without his backing. In turn, Trump accused Musk of going "CRAZY" over cuts to the electric vehicle credits, and said that Musk had been "wearing thin."
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on whether the two had smoothed things over.
Musk also did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Trump has taken action to respond to the riots in Los Angeles, which broke out Friday in response to immigration arrests to deport illegal immigrants, and announced he would deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to "address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester," the White House said in a statement. At least 300 troops arrived Sunday.
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Los Angeles County Sheriffs stand during a protest in Compton, California, Jun. 7, 2025, after federal immigration authorities conducted operations. (Ethan Swope/The Associated Press)
Trump’s use of National Guard troops has prompted backlash from figures including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said the deployment violated California’s state sovereignty. Typically, state governors oversee National Guard troops, but Trump has invoked a law to place the troops under federal command so he could bypass Newsom.
"I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command," Newsom wrote on X Sunday. "We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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