President Trump and tech tycoon Elon Musk were spotted sitting together and even shaking hands at the funeral service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk — marking their first public interaction since their bitter fallout earlier this year.
Musk, 54, was first seen alone in the stands at State Farm Stadium, where some 78,000 mourners gathered to honor the slain Turning Point USA Founder.
Footage posted later to social media showed Trump and Musk seated beside each other in the audience and talking as attendees clapped around them.
Trump extended his hand out to Musk, and the two exchanged a brief but earnest handshake before the tech billionaire stood up and walked away from the president.
It’s unclear what words were exchanged between the two ex-political allies.
Musk later shared a photo of himself and Trump chatting on X, writing simply “For Charlie.”
The interaction comes months after Musk departed from his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in late May.
His exit followed public criticism of Trump’s sweeping “Big Beautiful Bill,” which the Tesla founder claimed undercut his budget-slashing efforts.
During the bitter public feud, Musk called for the impeachment of the president and a new political party to challenge the GOP.
Trump responded by threatening to pull Musk’s government contracts and claiming the former DOGE lodestar was suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” after departing government work.
The president even planned to sell or give away the red Tesla Model S he purchased to support Musk on March 11, a White House official previously confirmed to The Post.
The two exchanged several jabs on Musk’s platform, X. The tech mogul even announced he would throw in with one of the commander in chief’s biggest foes in Congress, Rep. Thomas Massie — the libertarian-leaning House Republican who Trump has vowed to see defeated in next year’s midterm election.
An at-capacity crowd of people dressed in red, white and blue packed the stadium for Kirk, 31, while more than 100,000 others watched the service from a spillover stadium next door or are outside in scorching heat.
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