Elon Musk is famous for many things. The accuracy is not one of them.
When you share a lovely musk A two -minute duration video At 4:59 am on Monday to 218 million of his followers, his post did not include words, yet the message was clear. In the 1980, the intellectual in the free market, in the 1980 section of the economists, and poetic wax around free trade, showed the international assets of parts that make up a pencil.
Musk was expressing his discomfort by President Trump’s imposition of new definitions. However, one must wonder what Musk hopes to achieve.
This is not a well -known president for Bruck a lot of general criticism, after all. Try to imagine Suzy Wales, the head of the White House staff, who is known as her president.
Musk went over and over again to differ with Trump during the weekend, indicating that he believes that he is not subject to the same rules that govern others in the president’s inner circle.
He spoke by video on Saturday to an Italian -right political conference, and he said he hoped that the United States and the European Union will rise “Go to a zero position, which creates effectively a free trade area.”
This came after MUSK twice took footage on X in the administration trade, Hook Peter Navarro: First, he mocked Navarro PhD in Harvard. In the economy as “bad, not a good thing”, indicating that this means that the Navarro has exceeded its intelligence.
After that, if no person was arrested on his throats, it can be said that Musk added a line to the future obituary of Navarro, saying that he was “not built” anything, using a obscene word to confirm. (Later delete the second insult.)
I have been covering the famous musk for some time now. I do not see a convincing strategy in the announcement of his frustration with his boss.
This is not the first time that Musa has been at odds with Trump since he joined his team, publicly.
During the transition, musk Rick Scott supported From Florida to be the majority leader of the Senate, the progress of Trump, who did not support Scott. Then musk Hadeh Houard Lootnick For the cabinet minister, whom Trump ignored to choose Scott Bessent.
The most prominent of which is, Musk loudly defended the H-1B visa program against the most anti-immigration immigrants, Maga Wing for the Republican Party, saying that he would go to the “war” to defend the program, which the technology industry has. Trump ultimately Side with musk.
In the first days of the Trump administration, musk as well Paying the Trump artificial manufacturing plan. Trump gave him a pass.
Does Musk have some secret plan here to make Trump move away from the edge?
Trump adopted the definitions and fever for decades. Online representation of Musk indicates that he believes that Trump’s position may be negotiable on the assumption that there is sufficient pressure that is applied.
I have no doubt that Musk believes sincerely what he says about definitions and trade. But it seems very doubtful that the video of Milton Friedman with a pencil is able to change what Trump believes.
At the same time on x
Protectors protests too much
Musk uses its X account as loudspeakers. My colleague, Kate Konger, is looking at how to respond to the site for protests on government cost points.
On Monday, Musk proposed in a series of jobs that were paid to the demonstrators to demonstrate against him, or they had no little idea about the reason for their protest.
In one of them, he responded to a title from his right -wing website, who said that the demonstrators were demanding the government goal, writing “seriously”, and adding expressive symbols. In another, he wrote that the people protested against him were full of “bitterness”.
He also participated in other X -users who claim that the protests have been organized, and asked, “Who are the main individuals who finance this?”
The idea that someone is funding the opposition to him and his work has seen musk in recent weeks. When the protests appeared in Tesla agents last month, he was accused George Soros And other democratic donors to finance them.
These responses are a feature of musk, which often explains the dispute with it as an attack. It also violates one of the Cardinal rules on the Internet: Do not nourish the consultants. When other billionaires ignore criticism, Musk does not seem to prevent himself from responding to it – and attracts more attention.
– Kate Conger
In numbers
31 billion dollars
This is about the amount of musk Void In the net value since the announcement of the Trump tariff, according to Bloomberg billionaires index. Perhaps this will help make the losses of 401 (K) slightly decrease.
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How did Trump Musk help save Twitter, financially
When he bought Musk Twitter for about $ 44 billion in 2022, he was said to have paid large sums to the besieged company. Musk agreed to cash, to the point that he tried to get out of the deal completely.
But something funny happened. The company, which is now called X, has been somewhat recovered. As Kate Konger explained, this is greatly due to the election of Trump, who says he had a “aura effect” on the company. The company is still facing problems, but Kate stated that Trump’s return to power has brought some advertisers to the platform and made it newly related.
Musk often has a way to falsify his luck in one way or another. It is not as if he saw this coming; Trump was not even an official candidate for the president when he bought Musk Twitter in 2022.
It raises an enjoyable assumption, as I thought about it from time to time in the past few months: What would have happened to X and the Mousics, Kamal Harris won in November?
Read a piece of Kate here.
