The relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump has exploded in a series of fiery exchanges.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30917902

A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump

Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.

“I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it,” Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.

  • @Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•6 days ago

    Are we just forgetting that hegseth brought Elon into a war meeting about China and …now Russia is trying to cozy up to him?

  • @FMT99@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63•7 days ago

    Putin and Xi must be so god damn pleased that the US decided to just jump off a cliff.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
      40•7 days ago

      I don’t know about China but Russia had a considerable part to play in Trump taking power twice. This isn’t a coincidence; this is the result of a frankly brilliant long-term play on their part (which doesn’t make it any less evil).

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        2•7 days ago

        Or it could just be that people don’t like the extremes the Democrats have been taking. Also Biden isn’t all that popular of a president due to various reasons.

        Blaming Russia is just an excuse

        • MatengorEnglish
          2•7 days ago

          I may be seeing some people on the left taking extremes. But the Democrats as a whole? They seem to be pretty moderate, compared to european standards. Care to elaborate?

          Biden wasn’t popular, I give you that.

          So if russian meddling had made ~2% Americans vote red, that would have been enough for the popular vote. Depending on the Distribution, Trump wouldn’t have been elected.

          It’s really not an excuse. Russia and China are both trying to influence politics in the US and in Europe. It’s up to us to put a lid on it.

          • @Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5•6 days ago

            Just a heads up with the poster you’re responding to: checked their profile they are definitely walking the line of thinking whites are minorities.

          • Possibly linuxEnglish
            1•6 days ago

            Russia is using social media to try to amplify extremes. Americans still choose who to vote for so I find it a bit absurd that Russia someone made Trump get elected.

            It is just excuses for a Democrat failure

    • @radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8•7 days ago

      We can make his every dream come true and make him the first person on Mars.

      One way trip, though. Everybody wins.