President Trump and Elon Musk ... reunited again?
The president has personally invited the Tesla CEO, along with a powerful delegation of top American business leaders, including Apple’s Tim Cook and BlackRock’s Larry Fink, to join him on a high-stakes trip to China this week.
The delegation will take part in a direct summit with President Xi Jinping.
After months of distance following the 2024 election cycle, the high-profile reunion signals a renewed alliance as the Trump-Musk power duo prepares to negotiate major business deals and push for American interests.
The band is back together again, albeit in a less dramatic capacity. This is almost as big as seeing Liam and Noel Gallagher reunite for an Oasis tour. Almost.
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The summit with Xi Jinping, scheduled for this week in Beijing, will certainly be interesting. The delegation will reportedly tackle major issues, including: massive trade imbalances, restrictions on artificial intelligence, export controls, tensions over Taiwan, and the ongoing conflict in Iran.
Trump sees the trip as a major opportunity to secure big purchase agreements and favorable deals for American companies. And an entire team of major league players from the tech and business world will remind Communist China that the administration is negotiating from a position of strength.
The President has been looking forward to this challenge.
“I’m going to go see President Xi in two weeks. I look forward to that,” Trump said at a White House event last week. “Actually, it’ll be a very important trip.”
He has repeatedly stressed that pairing his negotiating style with top CEOs gives America maximum leverage to deliver wins for U.S. workers and businesses.
It’s a long way from the ugly public spat that erupted last summer, when Musk publicly criticized the sausage-making process behind a spending bill championed by the President. Musk, you may recall, ripped the “One Big Beautiful Bill” as a disgusting abomination and the two traded blows in public.
That feud should have stayed private. It didn't, unfortunately, and resulted in some serious mud-slinging on Musk's part. Fortunately, cooler heads eventually prevailed.
"I think he's a good person," Trump would later say. "I think he had a bad moment, really bad moment. But he's a good person. I believe that."
Now they're not only speaking again — they’re teaming up on the world stage. Trump and Musk ... officially back in business. Would love to see more of it.
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/05/11/trump-musk-power-duo-reunites-for-showdown-with-communist-china-n2202227
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