Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate, the billionaire told conservative commentator Jordan Peterson during an interview Monday evening.
During the interview, which was hosted on Musk’s platform, X, Peterson asked Musk if he had “shocked” himself by donating a substantial amount of money to Trump’s campaign. Musk – who has previously criticized Trump, calling him a “bull in a china shop” – paused to correct the “media.”
“What’s been reported in the media is simply not true,” Musk said. “I am not donating $45 million a month to Trump.”
Knowing Elon’s past history with wording, he is probably actually donating $45,999,999.99 or $45,000,000.01 just to say the media reports are not true. He never denied donating money, just disputed that exact figure.
Nah, the word salad decryption is I’m giving 45 mil/ month to a PAC that just so happens to be giving their money to Donald Trump. Yeah, I founded the PAC, what of it. I’m not giving him that, I’m giving the PAC it. No campaign finance laws were broken wink wink.
I think you’re all focusing on the wrong part. I didn’t donate $45M, I made an investment that I expect to pay back a lot more. Donating to Trump would indeed be cult of personality, buying a US President to protect me and be my pet is pure Elon.
He wants to take a bite from Boeing and Lockheeds contracts.
doesn’t subscribe to cult of personality
Well that tracks. Cult leaders don’t really like to acknowledge other cults.
There can be only one
*clears throat*
lol
‘I don’t subscribe to the Cult of Personality, it subscribed to me’
Elon Musk (probably)
Wasn’t musk the one who tweeted this? Why is he lying saying that media reported something that is not true when the source was himself?
I thought so too, but I just went searching for the source and it appears that everyone gives attribution for this as “according to the WSJ”, and the WSJ attributes it to “people familiar with the matter”. So, no actual statement from Musk that I could find.
That said, I still think he’s likely contributing to a PAC (which makes it technically true that isn’t directly giving to Trump…). I also suspect that it’s very likely he has an agreement with the PAC that they will then spend this money on ads at Twitter, though I have no evidence to back that up.
I must call a doctor because I have a boner that’s been lasting way more than 4 hours and it just keeps getting harder with every new headline I read.
It’s a Good Thing Republicans and Muskets do their Own Research! Otherwise they might have thought Elon Musk was donating $45MILLION a Month to Trump when Elon Musk said he was donating $45MILLION a Month to Trump!
I think it’s funny that benzo psychologist who’s afraid of pronouns is still relevant.
Oddly, not 10 mins before seeing this post I was having to convince someone that anyone espousing Jordan B Peterson probably isn’t reading the political climate from a reasonable vantage point.
Just like every other one of elon’s promises.
bro these guys never spend their own money.
“Sir if you go full MAGA the liberals won’t buy your cars any more.”
(Though he can still donate all this money to PACs I’m sure and no one will know so by saying this he’s probably just trying to save face and stuff give money to the shit heads.)
Honestly, at this point, now that he has the biggest golden parachute in history, I doubt he cares about the fate of Tesla.
He denied saying he’ll buy twitter for 42.69 was it?
Did his lawyer call him and demand he clarify his comments?
