Elon Musk doesn’t miss an opportunity to take a pop at the President of the United States, Joe Biden, doing so every time he alludes to the electrification of the American automotive industry.
This time, Tesla’s CEO has chosen his new ‘toy’, Twitter, to respond to a message from the American president.
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Biden boasted about the work of his government regarding the creation of new electric charging infrastructure by announcing that work was underway to bring the number of points across the United States to 500,000 stations. This was approved last September and the US government will dedicate 900 million dollars to it.
Musk’s blunt response to Biden
“The great American road trip will be fully electrified”, ended Biden‘s tweet.
However, Musk‘s response was immediate and blunt.
“Or you can just buy a Tesla.”
Musk often brings up the issue of charging stations in his conflicts with the president. His own network of charging stations now stands at 40,000 worldwide.
In addition, the creator of Tesla reminded the US president that his company has started to open up access to its chargers, allowing other electric vehicles to use Tesla Superchargers, something that is also possible at European stations (including some Spanish ones).
Long-standing quarrels between Biden and Musk
The ‘war’ between Biden and Musk goes back a long way, since the Democratic president has ignored Tesla in his speeches as a key factor in the electrification of the automobile in the United States, despite the fact that it is the manufacturer that sells the most clean-propulsion vehicles in the country.
In addition, the president has positioned himself on the side of the traditional brands (Ford or GM) by visiting their facilities and even getting behind the wheel of some of their new electric cars.
The South African billionaire has not forgiven this snub. That is why, whenever he has the chance, he lashes out against the Democratic president.
In this message he did it in his classic style, with irony and sarcasm, but it is not the only dart he has thrown at the president in recent days.
Elon Musk and the ‘Twitter Files’ against Biden
The new owner of Twitter has used his platform to spread some statements, supported by e-mails and internal testimonies of company workers, which reveal how Twitter itself acted in the face of journalistic information about Hunter Biden, the president’s son. These are the so-called ‘Twitter Files’.
According to these revelations, several Twitter workers intervened so that the inquiries – which implicated Joe Biden in an alleged conflict of interest by favoring a company owned by his son Hunter – would not have wider dissemination so as not to harm the then Democratic candidate in his race for the presidency in the 2020 elections.
According to the published emails, this action was concealed from the former CEO of the company, Jack Dorsey.
It should not be forgotten that, before the last mid-term elections, Musk publicly and openly positioned himself on the side of the Republicans, having already completed his acquisition of Twitter.
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