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Before Elon Musk waded into the governmental arena with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), becoming a cardinal people of Democrats successful Congress and connected the run trail, helium was erstwhile considered an state of erstwhile President Barack Obama and different Democrats.
On April 15, 2010, Elon Musk was pictured with President Barack Obama portion the president visited Cape Canaveral, Florida, Kennedy Space Center, portion touring the "SpaceX motorboat pad." Now, SpaceX is 1 of the leaders successful abstraction travel, and it was mostly precocious credited for bringing NASA astronauts stuck connected the International Space Station backmost home.
"By the mid-2030s, I judge we tin nonstop humans to orbit Mars and instrumentality them safely to Earth. And a landing connected Mars volition follow. And I expect to beryllium astir to spot it," Obama said astatine the time, according to a quality release.
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President Barack Obama tours SpaceX with CEO Elon Musk, astatine the Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 15, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
"But I privation to repetition – I privation to repetition this: Critical to heavy abstraction exploration volition beryllium the improvement of breakthrough propulsion systems and different precocious technologies. So I’m challenging NASA to interruption done these barriers. And we’ll springiness you the resources to interruption done these barriers. And I cognize you will, with ingenuity and intensity, due to the fact that that’s what you’ve ever done," helium added.
The billionaire and advisor to President Donald Trump recently shared a 2011 clip from Obama expressing the request to ace down connected excess authorities spending.
President Barack Obama tours SpaceX motorboat pad astatine the Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 15, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
"Obama sounds precisely similar [DOGE]!!" Musk posted connected March 13.
In 2022, Musk said helium pulled distant from the Democratic Party, and helium rapidly roseate to prominence beyond the concern satellite and into the governmental arena aft his acquisition of X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, and his enactment for Trump successful 2024.
"In the past, I voted Democrat due to the fact that they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they person go the enactment of part & hate, truthful I tin nary longer enactment them and volition ballot Republican," Musk famously tweeted successful May 2022. He donated to Obama aggregate times during his 2008 and 2012 campaigns, according to Federal Election Commission records, further emphasizing the alteration implicit clip of wherever helium has placed his resources.
In caller months, Musk has faced an onslaught of vile attacks from left-wing activists and Democratic lawmakers comparing him to the precocious Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. In February, "Squad" subordinate Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., referred to Musk arsenic a "Nazi nepo baby, a godless lawless billionaire, who nary 1 elected."
Former left-wing Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., said Musk is "incompetent. He's a thief. He's a Nazi. And radical don't spot him." This onslaught prompted Musk to say, "I’ve had enough. Lawsuit inbound."
In summation to verbal attacks against Musk, determination person been astatine slightest "80 incidents of arson oregon vandalism against Tesla vehicles and 10 incidents of vandalism against Tesla dealerships, charging stations and facilities passim the U.S. and Canada," according to a resolution introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
Elon Musk's Tesla showroom locations person faced repeated protests implicit his relation successful DOGE. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
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In Tuesday’s peculiar elections, Musk played a cardinal relation successful the fiscal backing and rallying for Republican Wisconsin Supreme Court campaigner Brad Schmiel, who mislaid to Democrat Susan Crawford. Meanwhile, Musk’s proximity to the president due to the fact that of DOGE has led the 2 to beryllium lumped unneurotic connected the run trail.
"Donald Trump and Elon Musk were crushed successful Wisconsin. Keep the unit on," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies, D-N.Y., posted to X connected Tuesday night.
Obama's bureau declined to remark for this story.
Cameron Arcand is simply a authorities writer astatine Fox News Digital successful Washington D.C. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected Twitter: @cameron_arcand
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