mend fences

Some billionaires who clashed with Trump in previous years have sought to mend fences since his reelection.

Nigel Farage says he wants to "mend fences" with Elon Musk, after the billionaire Trump adviser called for him to be replaced as Reform UK party leader.

Musk is now furiously trying to mend fences with Trump by threatening to primary Democrats, blaming them for what he actually did.

That felt particularly notable in the case of Kate Forbes - an influential figure as the woman John Swinney brought into government in part to mend fences with business.

A second possible reason for their meeting with Trump is that Scarborough and Brezinski want to mend fences with Trump because they fear becoming targets of the president-elect’s promised campaign of retribution against his critics and political opponents.