Jeff Bezos is pushing back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim the Amazon founder predicted President-elect Trump would lose the 2024 presidential election.
“Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X in the early hours of Thursday morning.
“Nope. 100% not true,” Bezos replied.
“Well, then, I stand corrected,” Musk responded, with a laughing emoji.
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Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote in the election and received heavy backing from Musk, whom the president-elect has tapped to co-lead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy in his second term.
Musk’s cozy relationship with Trump has given investors further confidence in the success of Musk’s companies, particularly Teslaand SpaceX, which has billions in government …