'Stop Hitting On Me': Elon Musk Responds To Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Tweet On Billionaire With 'Ego Problem'
In the tweet, she did not name the billionaire she was referring to, but mentioned Tucker Carlson and Peter Thiel and talked about them taking the billionaire to dinner and making him "feel special".
New Delhi: SpaceX and Tesla Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk has replied to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's tweet criticising a "billionaire with an ego" problem, stating she should "stop hitting" on him as he is "really shy".
The US representative from New York said in the tweet: “Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special”.
Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 29, 2022
In the tweet, she did not name the billionaire she was referring to, but mentioned Tucker Carlson and Peter Thiel and talked about them taking the billionaire to dinner and making him "feel special". Carlson is an American television host and political commentator, while Thiel is an entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal, led it as the CEO, and took it public.
Musk responded: "Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy ☺️".
Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy ☺️
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
However, Ocasio-Cortez did not ignore Musk's response and said, in a now-deleted tweet, that she was talking about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
MY GOD... pic.twitter.com/64iiJU23MD
— David Bixenspan (@davidbix) April 30, 2022
Quoting a screenshot showing her reply to Musk, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, "🤷🏽♀️ like I said, ego problems".
🤷🏽♀️ like I said, ego problems https://t.co/IpyCkMadP8
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 30, 2022
However, a Twitter user pointed out that she deleted the tweet, and called it "epic".
But you deleted the tweet (which was epic)
— DD (@DaveyDigest) April 30, 2022
Ocasio-Cortez replied, "I try to avoid giving people with massive ego complexes like this the attention and QTs/replies they crave and are seeking when I can help it 😉)".
I try to avoid giving people with massive ego complexes like this the attention and QTs/replies they crave and are seeking (when I can help it 😉)
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 30, 2022
Ocasio-Cortez's tweet talking about a billionaire with an "ego problem" came a day after Musk said that the Democratic Party has been "hijacked by extremists".
"I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists," Musk wrote.
I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
Since Musk's acquisition of Twitter, people have given their opinion about what the future of the microblogging platform will be.
Musk has also been a proponent of 'free speech' on Twitter, and wrote in a press statement posted to his Twitter account that free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.
Musk recently tweeted that the far left hates everyone, including themselves.
The far left hates everyone, themselves included!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2022
However, he also said that he is not a fan of the far right either. "Let's have less hate and more love," he wrote in the tweet.
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