Tech magnate goes full MAGA: Elon Musk backs Trump all the way

WASHINGTON: Tech honcho and the world’s richest man Elon Musk goes all in for Donald Trump amid a raging social media struggle about reality and misinformation, and which aspect, Democrats or MAGA Republicans, represents what. In a sequence of posts on his platform X, Musk left little question about his political affiliation by characterizing the Democratic Social gathering as a “celebration of criminals” and asserting that “a Trump victory is important to protection of freedom of speech, safe borders, secure cities and smart spending!”Amid rising concern that his platform is develop into a cesspool of misinformation and propaganda from either side underneath the guise of free speech, Musk himself posted a mischievous AI generated picture of Kamala Harris carrying a pink communist uniform with the caption, “Kamala vows to be a communist dictator on day one.Are you able to imagine she wears that outfit!?”

There was no caveat concerning the put up being sarcastic or a spoof. In a number of different posts, Musk trashed Democrats and Kamala Harris whereas speaking up Trump, together with confirming that he regarded ahead to a job in a potential Trump administration. Trump is reportedly contemplating Musk for a job in auditing federal companies to establish applications to chop. “I can’t wait. There’s a variety of waste and pointless regulation in authorities that should go,” Musk mentioned, referring to 1 such report. In step with his pledge to uphold free speech, Musk additionally allowed posts and memes eviscerating him though some critics contended, with out proof, that they’re being censored on X. A number of memes confirmed AI generated images of Musk carrying army uniform and different strongman fits.

In response to Musk’s put up that “the rationale the Democratic Social gathering is so tender on criminals is that criminals vote overwhelmingly Democrat – they don’t need to offend their prospects!” a number of critics identified that it was his favored candidate Trump who has been indicted for crimes. “The Republican nominee for president is actually a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist,” one put up learn. After Musk posted that “Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and the Democratic Social gathering (Kamala is only a puppet) desires to destroy it,” one critic contended that “Elon Musk being about free speech is about as humorous as Donald Trump’s Reality Social being concerning the reality,” whereas one other wrote, “Elon has gotten *considerably* extra deranged these days…. Such a hateful, deceitful, venal, creepy, *vile* little white supremacist hobgoblin.”

There have been additionally calls to revoke Musk’s safety clearance (his firms are carefully allied with authorities area applications) and his US citizenship (he’s a South African immigrant).A self-proclaimed Democrat at one time who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, Musk has firmly moved into Trump’s MAGA-sphere in current months, echoing far-right misinformation and conspiracy theories. Though he has mentioned he may now not help Democrats as a result of they’re the “celebration of division and hate,” his platform permits loads of division and hate, a few of it masquerading as numerous opinion. This contains savage criticism and abuse directed in opposition to him in line with his declare of being a free speech absolutist.