A simmering feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump began to reach a boil yesterday when Trump posted comments making fun of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s unfulfilled ambitions.
Posting on his own social media site, Truth Social, Trump ridiculed Musk’s car and rocket companies, as well as his reliance on government subsidies.
The former US president listed “electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash,” and “rocketships to nowhere.”
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Trump said that without the subsidies he gave him “he’d be worthless.” The post featured a picture of the two men in The Whitehouse smiling for the camera.
“I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it…” said Trump about Musk asking for subsidies for his companies.
This latest jab comes after Musk said that the former president should not run for office again in 2024 as he would be too old, saying Trump should “sail into the sunset.” A comment that was prompted by Trump calling Musk a “bullshit artist.”
This escalating spat began when Musk recently voiced support for Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, as the next Republican nominee for president in 2024.
It all comes at a particularly tumultuous time for the South African billionaire, who is facing a legal battle with social media site Twitter.
Musk had offered to pay $44 billion to take the company private but backed out of the deal saying Twitter had breached the agreement by not disclosing the number of fake accounts the site had.
Twitter has said it intends to take Musk to court to force him to honour the agreement.
In response, Musk, of course, took to Twitter.
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