Some of the goodwill that billionaire Elon Musk recently earned meeting former President Donald Trump evaporated overnight thanks to Musk’s latest statement about the 2024 presidential election.
Writing on his social media platform X this Wednesday, Musk said outright that he doesn’t intend to donate any money to either of the top two presidential candidates this election cycle.
“Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President,” he wrote.
Look:
Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2024
Musk’s statement didn’t outright anger Trump supporters, but it did disappoint them, prompting many of them to argue why the billionaire should consider changing his mind and donate to Trump.
“If you truly care about the future of our nation you will donate, and choose the candidate that will secure our border, and put America First. This may be our last election. It may already be too late but we have to try!” one critic wrote.
See more responses below:
You might regret that if the dementia patient wins
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) March 6, 2024
Why not support the candidate who supports free speech? And who is fighting to stop the invasion of our country?
We only get one shot at this. The left doesn’t waste their chances.
— Julia (@Jules31415) March 6, 2024
Elon, you should consider making an endorsement. You are obviously very aware that the migration crisis we are experiencing is destroying this country is pretty short order.
It is not sustainable.
— Steven Steele (@MrStevenSteele) March 6, 2024
well, you should be donating to Trump if you want the border secured and our economy brought back to life without crippling inflation/mortgage rates that is obliterating the middle/lower class
— Josh Barnett-AZ (@BarnettforAZ) March 6, 2024
So you won’t put your money wear your mouth is like Mark Zuckerberg does.
Then don’t complain about the destruction of America if that crooked old basterd wins in November @elonmusk— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) March 6, 2024
The statement from Musk came after The New York Times confirmed on Tuesday that Trump met with him, along with “a few wealthy Republican donors,” in Palm Beach on Sunday. The Times’ sources also said that Trump had recently praised Musk to his allies and was seeking a one-on-one meeting with him sometime soon.
“It’s not yet clear whether Mr. Musk plans to spend any of his fortune on Mr. Trump’s behalf,” according to the Times. “But his recent social media posts suggest he thinks it’s essential that Mr. Biden be defeated in November — and people who have spoken to Mr. Musk privately confirmed that is indeed his view.”
“[A] person close to Mr. Musk, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that if he does get behind Mr. Trump, his views about immigration will have been a significant motivator,” the Times added.
The Times, a far-left outlet, went on to bemoan that Musk could, were he to decide to financially back Trump, “almost single-handedly erase what is expected to be Mr. Biden and his allies’ huge financial advantage over the former president.”
Conversely, it’s very unlikely that Musk would endorse Biden given that the two have been at each other’s throats. For example, in 2021 the president purposefully didn’t invite Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla to an electric vehicle summit.
‘Can the world handle a Musk and Trump tag team?’ The two giants have Palm Beach meeting, X is buzzing https://t.co/qLrxk7f0nO via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) March 6, 2024
The Biden administration has also opened multiple investigations into Musk over his allegedly foul business practices.
To be fair, Trump and Musk have also bumped heads.
“In 2017, the billionaire famously stepped away from two business advisory councils when Mr. Trump was president over Mr. Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement,” according to the Times.
And then “in the summer of 2022, he and the former president traded insults, with Mr. Trump calling him an expletive and Mr. Musk saying it was time for the former president to ‘sail into the sunset.’”
But Trump did previously praise Musk in a 2020 CNBC interview, saying, “You have to give him credit. I spoke to him very recently, and he’s also doing the rockets. He likes rockets. And – he does good at rockets too, by the way. I never saw where the engines come down with no wings, no anything, and they’re landing. I said I’ve never seen that before.”
Dovetailing back to Musk’s X statement, it also attracted a rebuttal from Edward Snowden, who noted that there are more than two candidates to choose from …
There are more than two.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 6, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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