Tesla CEO Elon Musk has slammed Joe Biden, saying the Democrat president is too old to run for office again.
Musk blasted Biden during a new interview with the Financial Times where he addressed his ongoing battle to buy Twitter.
โI play the fool on Twitter and often shoot myself in the foot and cause myself all sorts of trouble,โ Musk told FT.
โI donโt know, I find it vaguely therapeutic to express myself on Twitter.
โItโs a way to get messages out to the public.
โTwitter is certainly an invitation to increase your pain level.
โI guess I must be a masochist.
โIโm not doing Twitter for the money,โ he insisted.
โItโs not like Iโm trying to buy some yacht and I canโt afford it.
โI donโt own any boats.
โBut I think itโs important that people have a maximally trusted and inclusive means of exchanging ideas and that it should be as trusted and transparent as possible.โ
Muak also spoke out about President Donald Trumpโs social media platform Truth Social.
โIt [Truth Social] is essentially a rightwing echo chamber,โ Musk said.
โIt might as well be called Trumpet.โ
โSomething will happen to Earth eventually, itโs just a question of time,โ he said while discussing his work with SpaceX and his interest in space exploration.
โEventually the sun will expand and destroy all life on Earth, so we do need to move at some point, or at least be a multi-planet species.
โYou have to ask the question: do we want to be a space-flying civilization and a multi-planet species or not?
โItโs a question of what percentage of resources should we devote to such an endeavor.
โI think if you say 1 percent of resources, thatโs probably a reasonable amount.
โHe [Biden] had an electric vehicle summit at the White House and deliberately didnโt invite Tesla last year.
โThen to follow it up, to add insult to injury, at a big event he said that GM was leading the electric car revolution, in the same quarter that GM shipped 26 electric cars and we shipped 300,000.
โDoes that seem fair to you?โ
Musk said Biden is too old to run for a second term in office.
โYou donโt want to be too far from the average age of the population because itโs going to be very difficult to stay in touch,โ he said.
โMaybe one generation away from the average age is OK, but two generations?
โAt the point where youโve got great-grandchildren, I donโt know, how in touch with the people are you?
โIs it even possible to be,โ he said.
Meanwhile, Musk described the latest drama in his bid to buy Twitter as a โplot twist.โ
As Slay News reported earlier, Musk has claimed that Twitter is now refusing to accept his offer to buy the company for $44 billion.
Earlier this week, Musk agreed to move forward with the deal after Twitter sued him for trying to back out of the takeover.
Twitter responded by stating that they wouldย accept his offer, indicating that the deal could be completed โwithin days.โ
Muskโs renewed proposal sent share prices surging by as much as 22% on the news.
But behind the scenes, Muskโs lawyers say Twitter wants to continue with litigation.
According to Teslarati:
Twitter is refusing to accept Elon Muskโs renewed bid of $44 billion for the social media company, according to a report from The Associated Press citing Elon Muskโs attorneys.
This news comes after reports of Elon Muskโs asking the Delaware court to halt the upcoming trial.ย
โฆAP noted that earlier this week, Twitter said it intended to close the deal at the agreed-upon price but both sides were still booked for the October 17th trial in Delaware.
Elon Muskโs attorneys said the trial should be adjourned to give the Tesla CEO more time to secure financing.
In a court filing, Elon Muskโs attorneys said,ย โTwitter will not take yes for an answer.โ
โAstonishingly, they have insisted on proceeding with this litigation, recklessly putting the deal at risk and gambling with their stockholdersโ interests.โ
Plot twist!
โ Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 6, 2022
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