Elon Musk Joins Donald Trump, Turns On Ukrainian President Zelenskyy As US-Ukraine Ties Crumble

Elon Musk Joins Donald Trump, Turns On Ukrainian President Zelenskyy As US-Ukraine Ties Crumble

This comes after Donald Trump lashed out at his Ukrainian counterpart, calling him a dictator, for not conducting elections in a country that is affected by war.

G R MukeshUpdated: Thursday, February 20, 2025, 10:35 AM IST
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Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, SpaceX, and X, and now, most importantly, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, appears to be aligning with Donald Trump on all fronts.

Musk Takes On Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Whether the richest person exerts more influence on the 47th US president, or it is the other way around, is still debatable.

This debate has found another avenue with Musk's recent comments, or more precisely his X posts on Ukrainian Wartime president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Musk has shared posts on his account, that once again looks to besmirch Zelenskyy.

This comes after Donald Trump lashed out at his Ukrainian counterpart, calling him a dictator, for not conducting elections in a country that is affected by war.

This came in as retaliation to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's comments on Donald Trump, in which he said that the president is being fed with misinformation. These comments irked Trump, who went on a rampage against his ally.

Falling in line with this approach, Musk has also shared some posts casting aspertions on the comedian-turned-president, Zelenskyy.

Musk also shared a post on X, in which he went back to Zelenskyy's and the Ukrainian First Lady's ill-timed decision to pose for Vogue's cover during, its early phase. Commenting on the same, Musk said, "He did this while kids were dying in trenches on the war front."

Turning Tides

Interestingly, the article, which Musk shared on his profile, read, 'Read the Room', which in itself, knowingly or inadvertently spoke about tip-toeing around Donald Trump and his much-discussed hubris.

Many commentators think, that these comments ruffled the feathers, at a time, when the tide was fervently turning against Zelenskyy's nation, along with the larger European Union.

This comes at the back of Zelenskyy's apparent boycott of a meeting held in Riyadh between Russia and the US on a peace deal in the ongoing conflict.

In addition, this also plays into the philosophy that a large part of Republican, particularly the MAGA base has posited against the Russia-Ukraine war, which has blamed Ukraine, and not Russia, for the invasion by the latter, of the former's territory.

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