US billionaire Elon Musk slammed US President Joe Biden after he dropped Tesla's name in a post talking about the future of electric vehicles in America.
Tesla's CEO, Musk, was apparently angered after the US president dropped the electric vehicle maker's name in a Twitter post where he said, "Companies like GM and Ford are making more electric vehicles here than ever before.
"Responding to Biden's Twitter post on future electric vehicles in the US, Musk wrote the name "Tesla" in all capital letters. In another tweet, he said, "Biden is a Damp Socks puppet in human form."
The awkward, but often amusing, beef between the Biden administration and Elon Musk's company Tesla took another turn on Thursday.
President Joe Biden praised General Motors (ticker: GM) as the electric-vehicle leader again in a video with GM CEO Mary Barra. Musk responded - on Twitter, of course.
The current issues between Tesla (TSLA) and the administration date back to August, when the president announced his goal of having 50% of new car sales in the US all-electric by 2030 at a White House event.The three largest employers of the United Auto Workers union—GM, Ford Motor (F), and Stelantis (STLA)—were in attendance. Tesla—the world's largest maker of all-electric vehicles and the most valuable auto maker globally—was not invited. Tesla, however, is not unionized, which White House press secretary Jen Psaki later suggested as the reason for the snub.
It seems to have gotten under Musk's skin. In September, he suggested in some tweets that Biden was out of touch with the current EV situation and was more interested in unions than vehicle electrification.