Elon Musk revealed that he heard that his fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos was advising people to dump their shares in Tesla and SpaceX because Donald J. Trump was going to lose the election.
The Amazon tycoon and Washington Post owner may have been able to amass a vast fortune but when it comes to picking winners he’d best stick with the online retail industry because if what Musk says is correct, he missed bigly by backing the Democrat nominee.
“Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock,” Musk said in an early Thursday post to X.
Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2024
The Tesla/Space X CEO’s post suggests that Bezos believed that Musk would face severe retaliation from the Harris administration over his support for Trump and that in addition to shutting down X, his other companies would have also been targeted by the weaponized government.
If true, then it means that Bezos had to choke down a lot of crow when Kamala came up as the big loser and he was forced to extend his congratulations to President-elect Trump after the results were official.
Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has bigger opportunities. Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 6, 2024
Bezos infuriated leftists when he put the kibosh on the Washington Post Editorial Board’s planned endorsement of Harris, possibly hedging his bets if he was wrong about Trump.
The decision to not go all-in on Kamala caused arch-neocon editor-at-large Robert Kagan to resign in protest and a quarter of a million customers canceled their WaPo subscriptions, another blow to the paper which is reportedly already set to lose $77 million.
“Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion,” Bezos said in a column explaining his decision.
Last week, Trump tapped Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head up the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Described by Trump as the “Manhattan Project of our time,” DOGE will save the taxpayers billions of dollars by downsizing bureaucratic bloodsuckers.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government https://t.co/a10EjFd34C
— GOP (@GOP) November 20, 2024
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed that was published on Wednesday, the two laid out some of their plans for the new department including making government employees show up for their taxpayer-funded jobs five days a week instead of working remotely.
“If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,” they wrote.
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