Billionaire Elon Musk has been in the news in recent weeks. Although he received criticism from critics for his interview with Donald Trump, the entrepreneur has once again promoted his social network X to the maximum.
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Billionaire Elon Musk has been making headlines in recent weeks. Although he received criticism from critics for his interview with Donald Trump (they say, Elon’s interviewer was not good, he sat there nodding), the businessman has once again promoted his social network X to the maximum. In general, Musk’s statements are becoming more vivid: the Western press says that he has become a complete hooligan. KP.RU understands the phenomenon.
The latest wave of “masco vandalism” began with the conflict between the billionaire and Nicolás Maduro, who won the presidential election in Venezuela. According to the country’s electoral commission, he received 51.2% of the vote, the opposition did not agree and protests broke out across the country. Musk wrote about this: “Shame on dictator Maduro,” recalling that alternative results supposedly give victory to the opposition candidate.
In response, the Venezuelan leader called the billionaire his sworn enemy and suggested that he wants to invade the Latin American country with his space rockets. The climax of the confrontation was Musk challenging him to a duel. Elon agreed and promised that he would take Maduro to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay on a donkey.
The politician’s reaction to this was the decision to temporarily block the social network X (formerly Twitter) in Venezuela. “We will set fire to your mustache from space!” – promised Elon Musk in response.
Then came Musk’s controversy with British politicians. The reason was the riots that began in late July after a black teenager attacked a dance studio and killed three girls in Southport. Regarding the violent clashes with the police, Musk said that civil war in the UK is “inevitable.” Prime Minister Starmer’s press secretary raged: “There is no justification for such comments.” And he warned that “anyone who incites violence online will face the full weight of the law.” Starmer himself later repeated these words during a meeting of the COBRA emergency committee.
Former Scottish First Minister Hamza Yousaf called Musk “one of the most dangerous people on the planet”: “He answers to no one. He has enormous wealth in his hands and he is using it to commit the most terrible atrocities I have ever seen.”
The billionaire accused the Scottish politician of being “super, super racist,” recalling Yousaf’s speech in which she complained that 96% of the British population is of European origin, hence the “dominance of whites” in the kingdom. The controversy led to mutual intimidation with lawsuits. The British media sided with the offended politicians and began massively printing caricatures of Musk as the instigator of the riots.
Musk’s interview with Donald Trump, broadcast on the X platform, was equally outrageous.
In Europe, this was met with hostility. The European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Thierry Breton, turned to the billionaire to ask him to censor the conversation in advance.
“Dear Musk, I am writing to you regarding the planned broadcast on your X platform of a conversation between you and the US presidential candidate. My teams and I will be extremely vigilant for any evidence suggesting a violation of the Digital Services Act. We will use all available tools without delay to protect EU citizens from serious harm,” Breton wrote. And Elon posted an obscene meme and accompanied it with the words: “I would like to respond to you with this meme, but it would be too irresponsible!”
Musk compared it to a comedy character and, of course, did not censor anything.
– In terms of symptoms, Elon Musk’s behavior resembles a midlife crisis. Only somehow it comes to him a little late, usually this happens to people over forty, and Musk is already 53 years old,” Andrei Manoilo, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences at Moscow State University, notes in an interview with KP. – During a midlife crisis, men start to behave strangely, they put on a leather jacket, buy a bike to prove that they are still doing well, that they can still do it.
For Musk, this crisis is manifested in the desire to be a stopper in any barrel, hence the sudden eruption of talkativeness, which he did not have before. He just needs to survive this crisis and then he will return to being serious, silent and will not cling to any Maduro. It could also be simply character. Or a well-calculated media image of a rebel.
Even though the billionaire regularly speaks on political issues, this does not mean that he plans to build a political career.
“His business is not tied to the ability to chat, the content of his speeches is far from the analysis of political scientists,” recalls the expert, adding that Musk was most likely inspired to interview Donald Trump by independent journalist Tucker Carlson.
– And Trump decided to hold on to Musk’s recognition, to refresh himself with this interview. Trump has a limited repertoire of shocking antics. When he started repeating himself, the public’s interest in him began to wane. Once he waved his arms, shook his lock of hair and shouted something, and then again, and the third time it didn’t work, something new was needed,” explains Andrei Manoilo.
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