The fun part is, as far as I understand it, the EV tax credit as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, did eventually include Teslas - even though Elon wasn't invited to the initial photo-op announcement party thrown by the White House due to the lack of unionization at Tesla factories.

On the flip side, support for the EV tax credit will probably be phased out if Trump wins according to recent articles I've read.

So then it seems it's not necessarily business logic but more about personal ego, etc.

> Elon publicly announced he was going to do a massive contribution to Trump's campaign fund

I don't think he has publicly announced anything like that. Actually, he denied it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/24/e...

With the two parties involved in the will he/won't he, I wouldn't doubt either version of the story. It's beautiful

Musk never announced that.

He's extremely constrained in what he can donate directly to the campaign. Direct donations are limited to something like $4000. These donations are closely monitored.

If you want to spend millions you have to give it to a super PAC. The difference is that the super PAC cannot coordinate directly with the campaign.

That part is not super closely monitored, and the fig leaf of separation is nanometers thick.

Must didn’t announce any kind of contribution to Trump. Various left leaning social media figures ran this misinformation, however, I assume in an attempt to galvanize their side into donating and to continue their unhinged attacks on Musk.

The Wall Street Journal is hardly left-leaning, and they were the source of the story:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/elon-musk-has-said-he...

… and you might want to check with the source before saying he didn’t announce anything:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1815911188024225967

WSJ is owned by Murdoch, who also owns FoxNews.

You know, I didn’t think that needed to be said but I might have been overly-charitable.

regardless, he supports a fascist authoritarian twat who doesnt even “like” EVs and says and does ridiculous things for attention. also he’s an extremely anti-trans jerk who has only hurt Tesla’s chances.

Take this rhetoric back to Reddit. There’s no place for it here.

Reading Musk Twitter is enough to not talk about rhetoric.

Yes, he did say he was contributing to a Trump PAC on his own Twitter: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1815911188024225967

I guess you just ran your own misinformation.