Elon Musk whines Biden didn't congratulate him for all-civilian SpaceX mission

[turbinetree]

By Sarah K. Burris
Published September 19, 2021

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President Joe Biden is dealing with a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, rescuing the final U.S. citizens in Afghanistan, an increasing COVID-19 crisis in red-states refusing to wear masks or promote vaccines, pushing an infrastructure package, hospitals being forced to ration care, a budget showdown with Republicans, the GOP refusing a raise in the debt ceiling and a slew of other crises across the world. CNBC reported Sunday that Elon Musk is miffed Biden didn't shower him with praise over the all-civilian SpaceX mission.

One of Musk's Twitter followers wrote, "The President of the United States has refused to even acknowledge the 4 newest American astronauts who helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for St. Jude. What's your theory on why that is?"

Musk replied, "He's still sleeping."

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-whines-joe-biden/

Hey Musk can I walk on your property to see if I can get enough ballots signed to bring in a union, you know a democratic process....so that just maybe I could fly on your rocket if I made enough money at your plants as a worker to go fly me to the mars or the moon, or better yet have you paid any wealth taxes on earned income so that I a taxpayer would not have fund your private rockets to blast off from my taxpayer funded launch site....a scab is still a scab....

[msongs]

1. hawaiian airlines #1 flew to LA successfully today. biden did not comment nt

[LisaM]

2. What's his problem?

Doesn't he realize Biden is a little too pre-occupied to worry about patting billionaires on the back?

[SergeStorms]

3. Egomaniac see themselves....

as the only person on the face of the earth doing anything of consequence.

Musk, Bezos, Trump etc. all fit that description. It's all about them, every minute of every day.

[Johonny]

15. He's still pissed Biden left him out of an EV auto event, even though it was a union event

He wants to be treated as a friend to labor without being a friend to labor . . .

[Lancero]

4. So, where's the whining at?

Someone asked him a question, and he gave a short reply. A sarcastic and assholish answer sure, but with how the article describes things I was kinda expecting multiple comments and a full fledged rant, not three words.

[sdfernando]

6. Every time I hear this guy my opinion of him

gets worse and worse.

When I’m in the market for an electric car, Tesla will not be on the list.

[budkin]

7. He's a total POS

Can’t stand his arrogance.

[Etherealoc1]

8. A legit question

The Administration could simply put
out a statement acknowledging the
achievement.

Messaging is important, it shows that
"Build back better" recognizes the
advancement of innovation and
technology as it evolves.

[Hortensis]

9. Actually Musk just replied humorously to a complaining Twitter follower.

He acknowledged there were no personal congratulations.

The insulting characterization that Biden "refused" was the follower's.

Bunch of nothing here.

[Blues Heron]

10. Wrong, he used a demeaning insult, actually

[Hortensis]

11. It's jokingly disparaging. People SHOULD be able to do that

without generating a lot of genuinely hostile, factional piling on.

[Blues Heron]

12. It was a very Trumpian insult actually

[Hortensis]

14. Far more even the OP some are chortling over.

And that's the point. If it's bad when they do it,... (It is.)

[ecstatic]

13. 🙄🙄🙄🙄 nt

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Maybe Biden will congratulate him if he pays his fair share of taxes?