We’re witnessing the birth of a feud between two of our most volatile rich dudes
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue; Scott Olson/Getty Images Elon Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter in late April and just two weeks later confirmed that he intended to lift the site’s permanent ban on Donald Trump.
In August 2019, Musk said he supported Democrat Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign. That still didn’t keep Trump from heaping praise on the tech billionaire at Davos in January 2020, calling him in a CNBC interview “one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius.” He continued, “You know, we have to protect Thomas Edison, and we have to protect all of these people that came up with originally the lightbulb and the wheel and all of these things.
At this point, Trump had already publicly claimed he was sticking with the flailing social-media network he had barely been using. “Truth Social will be a voice for me,” Trump told Fox News. “And that’s something nobody else can get.” Although it was unclear whether “this election” referred to the midterms or the next presidential contest, initially this seemed as if it could be good news for likely 2024 candidate Trump. A few weeks later, however, the “moderate” tech CEO revealed that the Republican currently winning him over is the Florida governor known for the “Don’t Say Gay” law and for punishing companies that defy him.
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