Donald Trump managed to alarm his supporters twice in a single publish to his Fact Social web site
“Where are you? When are you coming to the ‘Center of the Universe,’ Mar-a-Lago. Bill Gates asked to come, tonight. We miss you and x! New Year’s Eve is going to be AMAZING!!! DJT,” Trump wrote within the publish. Musk’s son X Æ A-Xii goes by the nickname “X.”
Naturally, Trump’s voters took to Musk’s social platform X to denounce the thought of a left-leaning, vaccine-supporting tech elite chatting it up with their pricey chief.
“Please don’t let Bill Gates anywhere near you,” one consumer begged, whereas one other wrote, “I hope he doesn’t consider working with this guy.”
Ought to Gates make his option to Florida, he wouldn’t be the primary tech mogul to rub shoulders with Trump earlier than he takes workplace. Billionaires who’ve beforehand butted heads with Trump, like Fb’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, are actually feeding out of the palm of Trump’s orange fingers.
As Day by day Kos beforehand reported, each Bezos and Zuckerberg have pledged $1 million every to Trump’s inaugural fund. Different rich elites similar to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Apple’s Tim Cook dinner, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Open AI’s Sam Altman have additionally bent the knee to the incoming president.
Day by day Kos reached out to Gates’ media staff for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
And for a former actuality TV star who’s properly conscious of timing and media presence, Trump’s alternative to point out Musk some love proper now certain does increase some eyebrows.
Musk, who Trump has tasked with bettering “government efficiency,” has been preserving his keyboard heat defending himself towards Trump’s base of anti-immigrant supporters.
The South African-born multibillionaire has been drilling dwelling his pro-immigrant perspective through X whereas Trump supporters appear to lastly understand that Musk’s actual curiosity is in low-cost labor, not jobs for People.
On Friday, Musk reposted his tweet from 2023, stating that the U.S. ought to “greatly increase legal immigration of anyone who is hard-working, honest and loves America.” Hours later, he reposted a video of Trump arguing that immigrants who graduate from U.S. schools or universities ought to obtain a inexperienced card.
However Musk’s followers appeared a bit extra skeptical of the thought.
One X consumer, who claims to be a “MAGA mom” in her bio, writes, “We want Americans to win, too. Why can’t we have both? Why can’t we train our children who are in tech who can’t find jobs? Why can’t we increase internships and opportunities for our kids to enter the field and learn? We can train them. We don’t have to import them.”
One other self-proclaimed “Conservative law-abiding American citizen” responded, “Qualified Americans are first in-line for jobs in America, as well education & training, period!”
The continued immigration debate appears to spotlight rising turmoil inside the incoming administration as Trump’s beloved “islamaphobe” supporter Laura Loomer sounds off in direct opposition.
With rumored dishonest scandals, allegations of intercourse with minors, and extra scandals brewing in Trumpworld, the U.S. is in for an attention-grabbing subsequent 4 years.
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