Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who made a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter last month, said on Tuesday that he’d allow ex-President Donald Trump back on the social platform after he was banned for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
Musk called Trump’s ban a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme” during an event hosted by the Financial Times, per the Washington Post.
“It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice,” he said.
The announcement will be music to MAGAland’s ears. After Musk’s deal with Twitter was announced, conservatives have spent the last several weeks cheering the deal as a win for free speech, of which the Tesla CEO claims to be an outspoken champion (while having a noticeably lower tolerance for free speech when it comes to his personal and business conflicts).
However, Trump claimed after Musk’s purchase was announced that he wouldn’t return to Twitter even if he could, insisting that he’d stick to his personal Twitter knockoff site, TRUTH social.
“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” he said during a Fox News interview.
44 billion seems like a lot of money just to please the idiotic narcisist.
Elon Musk is a subversive. Wait until Musk has ownership of Twitter then put it out of business or make it worthless via regulations. I’ll bet every cent I own that Trumpy will be back on Twitter in a New York minute. I was looking at buying an Tesla, not anymore.
Trump said he would not go back on Twitter. We know his word is good right???
The part that was sh-tting in Capitol hallways, beating police to death, invading the chambers with zip ties, and trying to murder the Veep and Speaker at the time?
As if he both can judge what is moral and be an arbiter when it is in question. And foolish? Has he looked at some of his kid’s names?
Actually, it had a serious dampening effect on Trump’s presence. It has been quite nice. In fact, before Musk’s condemns it, may he should ban himself and see how it goes.