Chronic. Since Donald Trump was deprived of social networks, we are really bored on Twitter. Fortunately there is Elon Musk, the richest man in the world. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX has taken the place of the first opponent of Joe Biden, and now attacks him on his age. “There are already minimum age requirements for the House, Senate and Presidency. Conversely, there should also be maximum age limits ”Mr. Musk, 50, tweeted under a photo of Joe Biden, who is entering his 80s.
In this case, it is the Democratic president who started the hostilities. In August, Joe Biden invited the historic American manufacturers (General Motors – GM -, Ford, Chrysler) to a summit on the electric car at the White House, but not Tesla, which launched this market when all had abandoned it. Can you imagine a luxury summit at the Elysée without Bernard Arnault or LVMH?
A plan for unionized factories
Elon Musk’s fault, running a business without unions. Mr. Biden “Didn’t mention Tesla once and praise GM and Ford for leading the electric vehicle revolution. Maybe that sounds a bit biased? “, wondered Mr. Musk in September, when his group sold two-thirds of electric vehicles in the United States. In mid-November, in Detroit, Joe Biden told General Motors boss Mary Barra: “You changed the whole story, Mary. You have electrified the entire automotive industry. ” This time, it was Elon Musk’s mother who went to the front lines: “Biden’s speech was written twenty years ago, just before GM killed the electric car. The writer of his speech uploaded the wrong file “, Maye Musk tweeted on Nov 18th.
Importantly, the president proposed in his Build Back Better plan a tax credit of $ 12,500 for vehicles provided they are assembled in a unionized factory. Otherwise, this credit would only be $ 7,500. “Joe Biden is the puppet of the UAW [United Auto Workers, le syndicat de l’automobile américain] “, retorted Elon Musk. He is not the only one annoyed: Toyota, installed in the non-union South, protested through advertising pages: “Let’s not play political games with the environment. ” German manufacturers, excluded from the system, and neighboring Canada, ostracized, are also furious. The president assumes and said in September to the unions at the White House: “You’ve heard me say it time and time again: I intend to be the most pro-union president, head of the most pro-union administration in American history. ”
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