The war of words between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world's richest man, appears to be over, and there are signs of some reconciliation.
However, a new poll suggests that the verbal attacks by Musk, who spent the first four months of Trump's second administration as a special White House advisor steering the recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have hurt his standing among Republicans.
Sixty-two percent of Republicans hold a favorable opinion of Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released on Wednesday.
That is down 16 points from a Quinnipiac survey in March, when 78% of Republicans viewed Musk in a favorable way.