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Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee to fund the Republican candidate,” Fortune reports.

Said Musk: “What’s been reported in the media is simply not true. I am not donating $45 million a month to Trump.”

He added: “I don’t prescribe to a cult of personality.”

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I’ve never liked that guy.

But then I had the opportunity to meet the actual founders of Tesla; so when he started pretending he founded Tesla, it seemed pretty douchey to me.

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah I didn't know about the "purchasing the right to call himself a founder" thing until fairly recently. I probably would have started in a similar place if I had

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh. He didn’t just purchase it.

There was a lawsuit. Bought in with 6.5mil (10+ with inflation,) then sued them for the right to be called “co-founders”

Edit: whoever his PR team was before he fired them; they were insanely good. That’s when people started realizing how awful he was.

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Oh. My. That is somehow even worse than I thought.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yup. before his fall, it's best if you just assume everything you read about him is pure propaganda. because it pretty much is.

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