Elon Trump?

Even though, at times, Elon Musk has expressed opposition to many actions imposed by former President Donald Trump, like saying prior to the 2016 presidential election, he didn’t believe Trump was the “right guy” to lead the US and after Trump won the presidency, Musk publicly opposed a few of the former president’s decisions. 

Yet, I suspect that deep inside, he’s been influenced by him and seems to strive for the same kind of limelight Trump is after. This helps understand why Musk has been in the news for his controversial statements and actions. 

He’s been accused of violating the “social contract with employees, investors, suppliers, regulators, and other parts of his ecosystem”. In February 2023, he was testifying at his trial for tweeting in 2018 that he had secured funding to take the electric car company Tesla private. 

He suggested that people shouldn’t believe everything that he writes on the social network he now owns. Even though the jury ultimately did punish Musk for the tweet, questions about his business style and practices remain.

This being said, his success with SpaceX and Tesla are hard to ignore. I think that Tesla is a wonderful automobile, but that its owner, just like Trump, has turned into a terrible human being.