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President Donald Trump is looking to set the record straight on his stance on Elon Musk’s companies.”Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth…
People have complained about America’s two-party system for decades, and many voters say they would consider supporting a third party — as long as Elon Musk wasn’t involved.New polling suggests that potential third-party voters aren’t interested in what Musk’s “America Party” may be offering, and the Tesla CEO might be…
Grok 4 seems to know who’s boss.The latest version of the AI chatbot has a favorite source on some hot-topic issues, citing creator Elon Musk’s views when asked about immigration and conflict in the Middle East.Business Insider was able to replicate responses shared by X users in which Grok 4’s…
Linda Yaccarino took an impossible job. And she failed at it.That’s my tweet-length summary of Yaccarino’s two-year run at Twitter/X, which she announced via her own Twitter post Wednesday.The longer version of my analysis isn’t much longer.In 2023, Elon Musk brought on Linda Yaccarino to fix his ad business, which he…
Even the most bullish of Tesla optimists can catch the ire of Elon Musk.Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, who often gives Tesla an “outperform” rating, said on X and in a note published Tuesday that Tesla’s board of directors needs to create “ground rules” for Musk after the CEO said…
As President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” inches closer to final passage, Elon Musk has ratcheted up his criticism of the bill even further, threatening to end the political careers of anyone who votes for it.”They will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do…
Elon Musk said that brandishing a chainsaw onstage in February probably wasn’t such a good idea.Musk — who’s been on a tear criticizing President Donald Trump’s spending bill — was posting on X about the debt ceiling on Tuesday. That got a response from an X user who criticized Musk…
The détente between two of the world’s most powerful men did not hold.After their very public fallout over President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill in early June, Elon Musk, the former face of DOGE, softened his tone on the president. Musk deleted several posts on X, and Trump also simmered…
Elon Musk is not done slamming President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” just yet.Musk started criticizing Trump’s spending bill on June 5 but walked back the attacks just days later. Musk said in an X post on June 11 that some of his remarks on Trump had gone “too…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Trae Cervantes, who worked as an engineering technician at Tesla until March 2025. It has been edited for length and clarity.I started at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada as a production associate in 2018, and I worked my way into a role…
