Did Jeff Bezos urge shareholders of Tesla and SpaceX, two companies owned by Elon Musk, to dump their shares in anticipation of Donald Trump’s defeat? In any case, this is what the billionaire owner of X suggested on his social network on November 21.
Elon Musk admits he was wrong
“100% false,” responded Jeff Bezos, head of Amazon, just a few minutes later. Elon Musk then admitted “being wrong,” followed by an emoji showing a person crying with laughter.
According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos explained that Donald Trump was “surely going to lose.” He got this information from a discussion he “learned” at Mar-a-Lago, home to Donald Trump’s golf course and residence.
Supporting the next American president, who will take office in January 2025, Elon Musk will have an advisory role within the new administration. He will be responsible for reducing federal spending, in particular by cutting the number of officials and the budgets of overly progressive organizations.
The current does not flow between the two billionaires. If Jeff Bezos used all his weight to prevent his newspaper, the Washington Post, from positioning itself in favor of one or another of the candidates in the US presidential elections, he remains a competitor of Elon Musk in the space field with Blue Origin, which SpaceX faces.
The enmity between the two men, therefore, does not date from this lunar exchange, and could be accentuated now that Elon Musk is one of Donald Trump’s right-hand men, to the point of bothering even within the Republican Party and the politician’s relatives.
Source: BFM TV
