Taking shots at President Donald Trump usually results in fire and fury from his second-in-command, Vice President JD Vance. Yet Vance, widely regarded as the president’s pit bull, was notably measured when responding to Elon Musk’s scathing attacks on his boss — a posture informed by his own relationship with Musk as well as direction from Trump,

The president doesn’t think that he needs to be in a blood feud with Elon Musk, and I actually think if Elon chilled out a little bit, everything would be fine,” JD Vance said.

Vance appears to be fully in Trump’s corner amid the public spat between the two billionaires — and expressed his support of the president in an X post late Thursday night.

Elon Musk apologised to Donald Trump after a phone call with JD Vance, the US vice-president, it has emerged. Mr Musk, the richest man in the world, has now spoken privately to Mr Trump for the first time since their public clash, The New York Times reported.

The duo caught up from their last conversation seven months ago in October, when Vance was still a U.S. Senator from Ohio

Vice President JD Vance rolled his eyes when shown during a podcast taping Elon Musk’s suggestion that President Donald Trump should be impeached and Vance should replace him.