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

"They've been under incredible stress for five months, give them a break," Errol Musk said while attending a forum by Putin's ultranationalist ally in Moscow.

(Trump dismissed the allegations about his connection with the late Jeffrey Epstein. “That’s called ‘old news,’ that’s been old news, that has been talked about for years,” Trump said on Saturday. “Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had nothing to do with it. It’s old news.”)