Does anyone has a logical explanation of why Elon is supporting Trump? Why is he going to this length, alienate many of his supporters by supporting an political party. What’s is the end goal, since nothing makes sense right now.
- Greed
- Lack of empathy
- Putin will kill him
Obviously he will award Tesla invite contracts and slash any tax and regulations.
Then again, Trump might just give him Texas.
The valuation of Tesla is insanely overpriced for what it is and I think he knows it. The Tesla hype machine needs to be fed to keep it from crashing and the vast majority of his money is that stock. He needs to gain more power to secure his status. It’s a bit of a house of cards. He won’t ever not be wealthy but his status as the wealthiest is tenuous as soon as people figure out he’s full of shit.
I think he had a stroke or overdose from too many drugs a few years ago and now he’s literally brain damaged. Would explain the total personality change he went through.
The thing is, he always was like that. He was just better at hiding it and pandered to liberals. He was trash to his first wife in 2000 and that was reported in 2010. Liberals saw what they wanted to see, until Musk understood he could just be himself and some people would still like him.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/elon-musk-told-first-wife-at-their-wedding-im-the-alpha/
Maybe this is overly generous, but I kind of feel like Elon genuinely believes he’s a special genius who can “save” the world and usher in a nominally benevolent techno-oligarchy with him at the helm. So he supports trump because a) trump will let him do whatever he wants without regulation or enforcement, and b) Harris won’t, and she might take a look at his accounting and government contracts.
Also maybe because Ketamine
This saviour complex is a big part of it. That said, all these big “self made” billionares suffer from it. That’s why they all refuse to pay taxes but will instead make a charity foundation so they can choose which public interest is best served by “their” money. Like another poster said, Elon’s public interest is apartheid, which aligns with Trump.
