In his work and our politics, Elon Musk has lost the script
Elon Musk is now fooling around in politics. Is he putting Tesla in jeopardy?
The Washington Post
October 21, 2024 at 12:41 p.m. EDT
Has the Elon Musk Show jumped the shark? Certainly, there is ample evidence that the Tesla and SpaceX boss, equal parts genius and loudmouth, has lost the script.
Consider his Trump-supporting effort to pay Americans to register to vote and his move to design a million-dollar-a-day lottery for signing a pro-Trump petition. Together these constitute a brazen political ploy for a corporate chief who wants the entire electorate to buy his products. Then there is the midriff-baring jig of MAGA revelry he performed onstage behind Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. Or that Musk spews some kind of misleading, false or contextually challenged filth roughly a third of every time he posts on X, the social media site he owns.
Musk has been behaving impulsively for years, of course, whether appearing to use drugs in a widely circulated podcast or thumbing his nose at securities regulators despite being an officer of a publicly listed company.
His political shenanigans are not likely to affect his business interests. But what ought to concern his investors is the B-grade marketing act he put on Oct. 10 on behalf of Tesla. Continue here.