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Why Trump shouldn't be president, according to Elon Musk's old tweets
By Kwan Wei Kevin Tan,
4 hours ago
"Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America," Elon Musk said of the former president in July 2022.
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Elon Musk is a huge supporter of Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.
But Musk wasn't always a Trump believer.
The mercurial billionaire had misgivings about Trump's age and temperament in 2022.
Elon Musk is a huge supporter of former President Donald Trump's campaign. But the mercurial billionaire was once a skeptic — and very vocal about why he thought Trump shouldn't govern the US.
Back in July 2022, Musk criticized Trump after the former president called him a " bullshit artist " during a rally in Alaska. Trump claimed at the rally that Musk had lied about voting for him in 2016.
"I don't hate the man, but it's time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset," Musk wrote in an X post on July 11, 2022.
Musk later said in a follow-up post the same day that having Trump as president would result in "too much drama."
"Do we really want a bull in a china shop situation every single day!?" Musk added. "Also, I think the legal maximum age for start of presidential term should be 69."
Musk then went on to pitch Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida as a far more superior candidate to Trump because of his younger age.
"Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America. If DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win – he doesn't even need to campaign," he wrote in a subsequent post .
The billionaire told Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson in an interview on Monday that his support for Trump stemmed from his disappointment with the Democratic Party.
"I don't sort of subscribe to cults of personality. For me, it's really just we've got a choice of administrations and we have to pick one. I think there are flaws on both sides," Musk said.
"Many years ago, I think the Democratic Party was the party of meritocracy and of personal freedom. They used to be the free speech party, and these days, they seem to be the censorship party under the guise of hate speech," Musk said. "So weirdly, in my view, the Republican Party is actually the meritocracy party."
Representatives for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.
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