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Is Elon Musk A Trump Supporter? Does Elon Musk Like Trump?

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Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an entrepreneur, investor, and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.

Politically, Musk has described himself as “half Democrat, half Republican” and “I’m somewhere in the middle, socially liberal and fiscally conservative.”

In 2018, he stated that he was “not a conservative. I’m registered independent [and] politically moderate.

Is Elon Musk A Trump Supporter?

Before the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Musk criticized candidate Trump by saying: “I feel a bit stronger than he is probably not the right guy. He doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States.”

Following Donald Trump’s inauguration, Musk expressed approval of Trump’s choice of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and accepted an invitation to participate in two councils advising President Trump.

Regarding his cooperation with Trump, Musk has subsequently commented: “The more voices of reason that the President hears, the better.”

Elon Musk and Donald Trump

He subsequently resigned from both business advisory councils in June 2017 in protest of Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, stating: “Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world”.

In May 2020, amidst Musk’s restarting of Tesla assembly plant production during the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump tweeted in support of Musk, which Musk welcomed and publicly thanked him on Twitter.

Does Elon Musk Like Trump?

In August 2019, Musk came out on Twitter in support of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, whose platform revolves around the ongoing problem of job displacement through technological automation and AI.

Musk said in a tweet that universal basic income, which Yang supports, is “obviously needed”. Musk went on to voice support for Kanye West’s independent run for president in July 2020.

In May 2020, amidst Musk’s restarting of Tesla assembly plant production during the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump tweeted in support of Musk, which Musk welcomed and publicly thanked him on Twitter.

In September 2021, following the launch of Inspiration4, Musk mocked President Joe Biden when asked why the President had not yet congratulated the SpaceX mission and its civilian crew.