Sean Hannity desperately tried to downplay the bitter fallout between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on Thursday night, as he implored the estranged “best friends” to patch things up.
Just hours after Musk claimed the president appears in the Jeffrey Epstein files and suggested he should be impeached, Hannity framed the drama as the “legacy media mob” making a fuss. He sought to soften the impact of the fiery fallout, deflect by attacking Bill Clinton, and then predicted Musk and Trump will “become friends again.”
“So let’s be very blunt here: Big deal. It’s an online, public spat between two very powerful men over what is really a policy difference,” the Fox News host said on Hannity.
“It got personal and still, despite all the bad blood, I’m going to make a bold prediction. I could be wrong. I think that Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they’ll work it out eventually, they’ll become friends again.”
“These are two very talented individuals. Frankly, they don’t need each other to be successful, but I do hope they work it out and set an example for the rest of the country,” he added.
Hannity implied Musk was upset over provisions in Trump’s spending bill that would cut government support for electric vehicles.
The ugly feud began this week with Musk slamming Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” as a “disgusting abomination” because of the trillions it would add to the national debt. Trump claimed on Truth Social Thursday that Musk “just went CRAZY” after he “took away his EV Mandate.”
“I can certainly understand why Elon, you know, wants that in the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill.’ Pretty obvious, pretty apparent, understandable difference,” Hannity commented.
As for the claims about Epstein, the late convicted sex offender with whom Trump was once friends, Hannity said Trump was “one of the first people to realize just how horrible Epstein really was,” and had ended the relationship two decades ago.
Then, he brought up former President Clinton, who also had documented ties to Epstein.
“Is he in those files?” Hannity wondered, attempting to shift the conversation. “I haven’t seen them, but if I was a betting man, I know where I’d put my money.”
“Now if by some, you know, chance that Bill Clinton is in there, I wonder if he kicked Epstein out of his life as publicly as Donald Trump did,” he added.
The clash between Musk and Trump has escalated rapidly over the past week, devolving from what appeared on the surface to be a policy disagreement to much more personal attacks.
The Epstein claim was a particularly shocking bomb, amid criticism accusing the Trump administration of failing to follow through on its promise to release additional documents and information about the disgraced financier, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
