Elon Musk Just Can't Help but Pick Petty Fights With World Leaders
On top of running Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk seems to have designs on another side gig: geopolitical consulting. He spent the last several days denouncing Germany’s handling of migrants; describing Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau as a speech-muzzling tyrant; and patrolling the US-Mexico border while armed with a seemingly backward cowboy hat, using the trip to float his own plan to stop undocumented immigration.
His politicking spree carried into Sunday night, with Musk mocking Ukraine’s persistent requests for US funding and military aid. “When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid,” read a meme shared by Musk on Sunday, which featured an altered picture of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy making a strained expression.
In response, Ruslan Stefanchuk, the chairman of Ukraine’s parliament, rejiggered the meme’s wording to jab at the failed test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket in April. “The case when a dude tried to conquer space, but something went wrong and in 5 minutes he was up to his eyeballs in shit,” wrote Stefanchuk on X, otherwise known as Twitter.
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Ukrainska Pravda, a media outlet in the war-torn country, accused Musk of spreading “Russian propaganda.” Mykhailo Podolyak, a Zelenskyy adviser, seemed to suggest that Musk can make jokes because he is “thousands of kilometers away from the epicenter of the war” and is not inundated with the sounds of “daily bombardments and the cries of children losing their parents.” Grant Shapps, the UK’s secretary of defense, likewise called Musk’s anti-Zelenskyy meme “unhelpful.”
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But you have to wonder why Ketamine-addled Musk is given defense contracts to begin with
