Billionaire Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s right-hand man, used a incapacity slur in opposition to an astronaut on his social media platform X after the astronaut accused him of mendacity.
In a joint interview with Trump performed by Fox Information’ Sean Hannity that aired Tuesday, Musk stated that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose return from the Worldwide House Station has been delayed for months, have been left in house for “political causes.”
Each astronauts have rejected the notion that they’re stranded. Wilmore informed CNN’s Anderson Cooper in a Feb. 13 interview that they “don’t really feel deserted.” Williams added that they have been “doing fairly darn good, truly.”
Musk’s hypothesis about why the astronauts are nonetheless in house struck a nerve with Andreas Mogensen, a Danish astronaut with the European House Company, who posted on X: “What a lie.”
“And from somebody who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media,” Mogensen added.
Musk responded to Mogensen with vitriol: “You might be totally retarded,” he posted on X.
“SpaceX may have introduced them again a number of months in the past. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration they usually refused. Return WAS pushed again for political causes,” he added. “Fool.”
Musk’s offensive language is according to many of his past controversial comments and actions, together with his Nazi-like salute after Trump’s inauguration.
But Trump has made Musk a really seen sidekick, a lot in order that CNN panelists joked that Vice President JD Vance needs to be involved by their relationship. Inside a month of Trump’s inauguration, the 2 have already carried out a joint interview and press convention.
Trump put Musk “in cost” of the makeshift “Division of Authorities Effectivity,” which he tasked with reducing authorities prices. Consequently, 1000’s of presidency staff have been fired or laid off only one month into Trump’s time period.
Practically two dozen federal employees have filed a lawsuit in opposition to Musk claiming that his actions by way of DOGE are unconstitutional. Nevertheless, the choose within the case hasn’t blocked him or DOGE workforce members from transferring ahead with cuts or accessing privileged data.
