Elon Musk reacts to Biden dropping out: ‘My smartest friends’ are ‘excited about Trump’
X owner Elon Musk said Silicon Valley is going all in on Trump.
Just minutes after US President Joe Biden announced he was dropping his campaign for re-election, Elon Musk announced that his Silicon Valley friends had already moved on to the Republican Party.
“My smartest friends, including those living in the San Francisco Bay Area who have been lifelong Dems, are excited about Trump/Vance,” Musk posted on X.
Musk, one of the wealthiest and most vocal billionaires in Silicon Valley, said he “fully” endorsed Donald Trump last Saturday, just minutes after gunshots were fired at the former president’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Now, Musk suggests the tech industry’s allegiances aren’t just shifting between presidential candidates. He said there’s a reversal in which political party best represents the country’s spirit.
“I believe in an America that maximizes individual freedom and merit,” he wrote. “That used to be the Democratic Party, but now the pendulum has swung to the Republican Party.”
Several top Silicon Valley investors have begun to rally around Trump in recent months. Last week, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, cofounders of venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, announced they’d put millions behind Trump on “The Little Tech Agenda” podcast. “Sorry, Mom, I know you’re gonna be mad at me for this, but like, we had to do it,” Horowitz conceded.
