In an interview with NBC News, the president also said he assumes his relationship with the tech billionaire is over following their recent falling out.

Billionaire Elon Musk has seemingly removed posts on X, formerly Twitter, that he wrote in which he claimed that President Donald Trump was named in the much-discussed files of Jeffrey Epstein, a move that significantly escalated a feud between the two former allies.

Trump said Thursday that he had offered makeup to Elon Musk to cover a black eye ahead of their appearance last week in the Oval Office. “I said, ‘Do you want a little makeup? We’ll get you a