Elon Musk's shutdown rant mocked by Mark Cuban, embraced by conservatives
Elon Musk drew criticism from some of his peers in the business community and cheers from conservative political circles after calling government shutdown orders aimed at containing a global pandemic “fascist.”
The chief executive officer of Tesla compared shelter-in-place measures to forcible imprisonment during a call to discuss the electric-car maker’s first-ever quarterly profit to start a year. Musk, 48, said he was worried about not being able to resume production in the San Francisco Bay area, which is home to his only vehicle assembly plant in the U.S.
“Anything that negatively impacts Tesla, Elon hates, period, end of story,” Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said on Fox News Wednesday. “You know, I don’t think he has other people’s interests at heart.”
“My attitude is you’ve got to be smart,” said Cuban, 61, who’s among the business leaders on the council advising President Donald Trump on reopening the U.S. economy. “We don’t have to rush back into things. We get to learn.”
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