
Donald J. Trump may not be allowed on Twitter anymore, but he’s not letting that stop him from weighing in on the current Elon Musk drama. Trump took to Truth Social Tuesday evening to post a photo of him and Musk in the Oval Office, along with a threaded message about Musk’s inability to operate Tesla without government assistance. Trump currently has 3.5 million followers on the platform.
“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere,” Trump wrote, “without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and a Republican, I could have said ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it...”