TRUMP BUSINESS: “Former President Donald Trump is no longer rich enough to be included in the Forbes 400, an annual ranking of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine said on Tuesday [October 4, 2023]. Trump is still a billionaire, with Forbes estimating his net worth at $2.6 billion. But that’s down from the magazine’s estimate a […]
Tag: Elon Musk
4/19/2023
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/PUBLIC FIGURES: “Donald Trump raged after Elon Musk revealed he voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The former president claimed Twitter’s billionaire owner told him he’d voted for him, then petulantly said he actually ‘didn’t care’ either way… ‘I don’t believe Elon Musk voted for Biden, not for a minute!’ […]
11/21/2022
SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Donald Trump is allowed back on his longtime social media app of choice: Twitter. Musk announced the Trump decision in a tweet on Saturday evening, reversing Twitter’s permanent ban on the former president after his supporters stormed the capitol on January 6, 2021. The decision comes just days after Trump announced his candidacy […]
10/7/2022
SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk knocked former President Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, calling it a ‘rightwing echo chamber.’ … During an in-depth interview with the Financial Times published Friday, the tech mogul talked about his reasoning behind making a bid to purchase Twitter… Should Musk gain control of the platform, […]
7/12/2022
CELEBS/TWITTER: “Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Monday night [July 11, 2022] to respond after former President Donald Trump criticized him after he signaled his intent to withdraw from purchasing Twitter for $44 billion. After Trump publicly criticized Musk — calling him a ‘bulls— artist’ — at a rally in Anchorage, Alaska. Musk […]
5/22/2022
NEW YORK/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Twitter is in big trouble, has lost all credibility, and is unlikely to see Elon Musk close his ridiculous deal with them after having learned so much about the massive number of Bots and Fake Accounts that people using Twitter must endure. Why doesn’t the Corrupt Racist New York State Attorney General, […]
5/16/2022
SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: [According to a document by Digital World Acquisition Corp.,] “Trump is obligated to first post to Truth Social, a new social network he’s backing, and can’t publish the same content on another social media site for six hours. After that, he can post to ‘any site to which he has access,’ according to […]
5/10/2022
SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Elon Musk said Tuesday [May 10, 2022] he would reverse Twitter’s ban on former President Donald Trump if his acquisition goes through… Twitter permanently suspended Trump from the platform in January 2021 following the attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol. The company said it made the decision after the Jan. 6 […]
7/24/2020
AUTO INDUSTRY/TEXAS: “Great job by @elonmusk in agreeing to build, in TEXAS, what is expected to be the largest auto plant anywhere in the world. He kept his word to me. Texas & @Tesla are big winners. MADE IN THE USA!” ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 24, 2020 3:59 am […]
5/30/2020
NASA/PUBLIC FIGURES/TECHNOLOGY: “After achieving success as an Internet entrepreneur, he [Elon Musk] could have spent his fortune doing anything, including yachting, lots of things. He could do lots of things. But in 2002, he began pouring tens of millions of dollars of his own money into research and development for a new rocket… SpaceX has […]
5/12/2020
CALIFORNIA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “California should let Tesla & @elonmusk open the plant, NOW. It can be done Fast & Safely!“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 12, 2020 3:40 am […]
5/31/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/ELON MUSK: “Elon Musk says he’ll step down from President Donald Trump’s advisory councils if he decides to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The CEO of both Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX tweeted Wednesday [5-31-17] that he’s done everything possible to lobby the president to keep the U.S. in the treaty. ‘Don’t know which […]