President Biden Won’t Get Elon Musk’s Vote In 2024; Billionaire Explains Why
deadline.comElon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of X (formerly Twitter) says his opposition to President Biden in his re-election bid is mainly due to his bitterness over a White House snub in 2021.
During a 90-minute appearance at the New York Times DealBook Summit, Musk’s profane taunts of advertisers made headlines, but his views on Biden also were noteworthy given his vast resources and influence.
Musk said his issue with Biden can be traced back to the White House excluding Tesla from an event on electric vehicles it hosted a few months after Biden took office.
The president also later added “insult to injury” by praising General Motors as the company leading the “electric car revolution,” the exec recalled. “Without doing anything to provoke the Biden administration, they held an electrical vehicle summit at the White House and specifically refused to let Tesla attend,” Musk said. “This was in the first six months of the administration.
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