But Musk later changed his mind, reportedly donating $45 million a month of his money to the pro-Trump political action committee American PAC.
`Nuff said. CEOs are often Republican, but to be this outspokenly political is normally a bad thing for CEOs like Musk. Media company heads (and Twitter/X is a media company) are supposed to at least pretend to be neutral.
And catering to the far-right seems like a bad idea if your company makes EVs. But what do I know?
Are they? Maybe something like an S Plaid or a Cybertruck, but the Tesla name is synonymous with those fuckhuge ugly wagon models you see everywhere on the road these days. Even absent of Musk’s connection to the brand, I haven’t seen a Tesla be considered a status symbol in years