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Former President Donald Trump ripped Elon Musk on Tuesday, citing the billions of dollars his firms have acquired in government money.
The Tesla Motors CEO tweeted on Monday night time that Trump will have to step out of the spotlight. “It’s time for Trump to hang up his hat,” the billionaire mentioned.
Trump called Musk “another bullshit artist” all over a rally on Saturday, claiming that Musk had told him he voted for him regardless of the actual fact Musk later said he’d by no means voted for a Republican.
Posting on his social media platform Reality Social, Trump mentioned Musk sought his assist on “many backed initiatives.” He additionally claimed that if he had asked Musk to beg from his knees, he would have obliged:
“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for assist on all of his many sponsored tasks, whether it’s electric cars that don’t force lengthy sufficient, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, with out which subsidies he’d be worthless,” Trump wrote, “and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have mentioned, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have executed it…”
In every other put up, the previous president mentioned Musk “must center of attention on getting himself out of the Twitter mess,” regarding Musk’s efforts to back out of a $44 billion acquisition deal involving the corporate.
Musk heads up a few companies, which bought $4.9 billion in subsidies via 2015, and have obtained extra on account that.
Musk responded to Trump’s dig via tweeting, “Lmaooo” and a GIF of Abe Simpson yelling at a cloud.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2022
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