Donald Trump and Elon Musk meet and shake hands months after messy split

Musk, who bankrolled Trump's presidential campaign and later became an advisor to him, greeted the president at the memorial for Charlie Kirk

Donald Trump met with billionaire Elon Musk, his once trusted adviser with whom the president had a spectacular public falling out, at a memorial event for right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, raising speculation that the two could be reconciling.

Trump shook hands with and chatted to Musk, who once led the president's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which took a hatchet to the US federal workforce and agencies in the early months of Trump's second administration.