By Laura D’Angelo – Published on 28 Nov 2024 at 11:30
While he decided to support Donald Trump, Elon Musk had a completely different opinion of the American president in the past.
He has been involved in Donald Trump's campaign for many weeks. Elon Musk will thus play an important role in the next mandate of the 47th President of the United States. Indeed, he was appointed head of a new department of“governmental efficiency”.
Elon Musk: this sharp opinion on Donald Trump
He will therefore have a special place in the Trump administration. Enough to worry many Americans. Very committed, Elon Musk, who let loose on the French, did he always have the same opinion on Donald Trump as he does today? Not really, according to biographer Walter Isaacson, who published a biography on the billionaire in September 2023. Titled Elon Muskthis biography then describes a billionaire who is not at all a fan of the one he will later support. Indeed, according to the biographer's writings, Elon Musk reportedly described Melania Trump's husband
“a slightly crazy crook”.Not very positive and benevolent qualifiers about Donald Trump.
Why did the billionaire decide to vote for the Republicans?
In this work, we also learn that during a meal with Joe Biden in San Francisco, but that this dinner had been “boring to death“. If he has not changed his opinion about the current President of the United States, it seems that Elon Musk has a completely different opinion from Donald Trump. Indeed, originally, the boss of has always been a democrat:
“In my opinion, the shift begins during confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic.had confided Boris Manenti, journalist and author of the book Elon Musk, the barker. “On Twitter, we see him slipping and making increasingly conservative comments, and some of those close to him say that it was at this time that he began to spend a lot of time on the internet and in particular on conspiracy sites.“.
Son's gender transition
As early as the mid-term elections in 2022, Elon Musk, friend of P. Diddy, announced that he would vote for the Republican candidate. Among the reasons that pushed him to do so was the gender transformation of his son Xavierthen a minor, during the Covid-19 period.
“My son Xavier is deadkilled by the woke virus. I swore to destroy the woke virus after this“, he confided. So to counter this phenomenon, he made the decision to buy X. “This is really what motivated the acquisition of Twitter. Elon Musk adorns himself with all the virtues of the defender of freedom of expression, but ultimately, what he wants is a counter-narrative, that is to say, to give much more echo to all conservative ideas around the world, and particularly in the United States“.
