Elon Musk, Donald Trump.Photo: Getty (2)
One day afterElon Muskwished over social media forDonald Trumpto “sail into the sunset,” the former president is hitting back.
Trump, 76, took to his alternative social media platform Truth Social late Tuesday night, and in a series of posts, shared his thoughts about the Tesla mogul, 51 — and Musk’s controversial decision to renege on buying Twitter.
“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it…” Trumpwrote in the first post.
“…Now Elon should focus on getting himself out of the Twitter mess because he could owe $44 billion for something that’s perhaps worthless. Also, lots of competition for electric cars!” he added.
Trump then mulled in the final post about why Musk was “allowed to break the $15 million stock purchase barrier on Twitter without any reporting?”
“That is a very serious breach! Have fun Elon and@jack, go to it!” he wrote, bringing Twitter co-founderJack Dorseyinto the conversation.
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But at a political rally in Alaska on Saturday, the former President spoke about a claim Musk made in which he wrote on Twitter that he had recently voted for a Republican for the first time last month,according toThe Washington Post.
“He said the other day, ‘Oh, I’ve never voted for a Republican.’ I said, ‘I didn’t know that,'” Trump said. “He told me he voted for me, so he’s another bull— artist.”
“I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset,” hewrote. “Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.”
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Acrimony between the two businessmen has not always been the case.
Before backing out of his Twitter deal, Musk said in May that if his deal to acquire the social-media platform went through as planned, he would reverse thepermanent ban against Trumpthat was put in place following theriots at the U.S. Capitol.
“Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots, or scam, spam accounts … I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump,” Musk said at FT Live’s Future of the Car conference, according to aCNBC report. “I think that was a mistake, because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”
source: people.com
