Tim Walz says Dems 'should demonize' people like Elon Musk during Ohio town hall

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and person of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) should beryllium demonized, successful an evident escalation of their feud. 

Walz was speaking astatine a municipality hallway successful Youngstown, Ohio, erstwhile helium laid into Musk, whom helium has sharply criticized before. He was talking astir societal media and the Democratic Party's presumption connected occurrence erstwhile helium brought up the billionaire tech mogul. 

"We're creating a mendacious communicative for them that everybody is ace affluent and has Lamborghinis and beingness is easy," Walz told the crowd. "But that's what we're going to person to fig retired successful our nine astir societal media and each those things."

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz connected Wednesday "we should demonize" radical similar Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO. (Reuters)

"But I don't deliberation we should beryllium the enactment that demonizes idiosyncratic due to the fact that they're capable to spend something," helium added. "What we should demonize is idiosyncratic similar Elon Musk and those radical that bash that. That's different."

Earlier, Walz said Democrats should beryllium conveying a connection that it's "OK to beryllium successful" and that occurrence should beryllium celebrated. 

"What my beef is, erstwhile you get successful, don't beryllium a greedy bastard and not wage your taxes," helium said. 

Walz, the erstwhile 2024 Democratic vice statesmanlike candidate, and Musk person traded bards successful caller weeks. 

The feud began past period erstwhile Walz joked that helium regularly checks Tesla stock, which was down amid a drawstring of vandalism incidents targeting the electrical conveyance company. 

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Elon Musk and Tesla protest.  (Getty Images)

"On the iPhone, they've got that small banal app. I added Tesla to it to springiness maine a small boost during the day," Walz said, referencing Tesla's banal slump arsenic helium held up his iPhone during a Wisconsin municipality hallway titled, "The People vs Musk."

Musk responded by turning the tables connected the Democratic governor with a diss astir his 2024 predetermination loss.

"Sometimes erstwhile I request a small boost, I look astatine the @JDVance representation successful the White House and convey the Lord," Musk wrote successful effect to Walz's remark.

The White House joined successful connected hitting backmost astatine Walz's remark regarding the billionaire's company.

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"When we request a small boost during the time astatine the White House, we locomotion astir the country from our bureau and respect these beauteous portraits," Trump's Rapid Response squad wrote successful a societal media post.

Fox News Digital's Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.