Simply minutes after US President Joe Biden introduced he was dropping his marketing campaign for re-election, Elon Musk introduced that his Silicon Valley pals had already moved on to the Republican Celebration.
“My smartest pals, together with these residing within the San Francisco Bay Space who’ve been lifelong Dems, are enthusiastic about Trump/Vance,” Musk posted on X.
Musk, one of many wealthiest and most vocal billionaires in Silicon Valley, stated he “totally” endorsed Donald Trump final Saturday, simply minutes after gunshots had been fired on the former president’s marketing campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Now, Musk suggests the tech business’s allegiances aren’t simply shifting between presidential candidates. He stated there’s a reversal through which political get together greatest represents the nation’s spirit.
“I imagine in an America that maximizes particular person freedom and benefit,” he wrote. “That was once the Democratic Celebration, however now the pendulum has swung to the Republican Celebration.”
A number of high Silicon Valley traders have begun to rally round Trump in latest months. Final week, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, cofounders of enterprise agency Andreessen Horowitz, introduced they’d put tens of millions behind Trump on “The Little Tech Agenda” podcast. “Sorry, Mother, I do know you are gonna be mad at me for this, however like, we needed to do it,” Horowitz conceded.
In the meantime, established conservatives like Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel and Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale have already vocalized assist for the previous president. Assist for Trump in Silicon Valley may be bolstered by the announcement of his working mate, JD Vance, who started his profession in enterprise capital working for Thiel’s Mithril Capital and the Steve Case-backed Revolution earlier than turning into the senator of Ohio.
Musk, in the meantime, is already patting himself on the again for proudly owning the platform that broke the information about Biden. “White Home aides discovered Biden was dropping out by studying X,” he touted a bit of over an hour after Biden’s announcement.
