But Musk later changed his mind, reportedly donating $45 million a month of his money to the pro-Trump political action committee American PAC.
`Nuff said. CEOs are often Republican, but to be this outspokenly political is normally a bad thing for CEOs like Musk. Media company heads (and Twitter/X is a media company) are supposed to at least pretend to be neutral.
And catering to the far-right seems like a bad idea if your company makes EVs. But what do I know?
There’s also a not-so-unfounded conspiracy that Tesla has a significant number of employees going onto social media to create that narrative.
Not to mention one of the few actually intelligent things Elon did, and convince a ton of people to tie their financial future and wellbeing to Tesla by putting basically their entire portfolio into it, by various means. Couple that with the referral programs telling people they’ll get a free $250k car if they shill hard enough through the referral program, and you have a massive army of people whose finances are heavily intertwined with Tesla