Donald Trump ‘asked Elon Musk last summer if he wanted to buy Truth Social but X billionaire turned him down’

Elon Musk turned down a request from Donald Trump to buy Truth Social, his defunct social media site, last summer, according to sources cited by The Washington Post today.

At the time, Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media, was in the middle of a complicated and long-delayed merger process.

The Post’s unnamed sources say Trump told Musk he had only made $200 on the venture.

Musk ultimately declined the request, the sources said.

Just a few months after the announcement, Trump Media’s merger partner, Digital World Acquisition Corp., said it had offered to pay an $18 million settlement to the Securities and Exchange Commission if the merger went through.

The SEC alleged that DWA had misled investors, putting the merger in a precarious position.

But the SEC has since authorized DWA to file a merger, which could allow Trump Media to eventually go public.

When reached by the Post about the Truth Social claims, Musk said only that he had “never been to Mar-a-Lago.”

A spokesman for Trump Media refused to confirm or deny the claims, instead coyly telling the paper: ‘We heard that Trump and Musk did indeed discuss buying the Washington Post, but they decided there was no value.’

Trump has long spoken out against the Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos.

Musk previously looked down on Truth Social, tweeting in 2022 that the platform had a ‘terrible name’ and that it was ‘time for Trump to tip his hat and sail off into the sunset’.

Trump didn’t take it lightly, posting a photo of the two men in the Oval Office shortly after with a caption claiming Musk would be ‘worthless’ without government support for his projects.

‘I could have said “get on your knees and beg,” and he would have done it,’ he boasted.

But Tesla’s CEO has increasingly endorsed the conservative ideology espoused by Trump.

He echoed Trump’s unverified claims that Joe Biden is ‘importing voters and creating a national security threat from unchecked illegal immigrants’.

Since being fired from Twitter by Musk’s predecessors, Trump has used Truth Social to communicate with his army of supporters.

He said nothing about the Musk claims this morning, instead claiming Joe Biden.