The relationship between Elon Musk and Bill Gates is often colored by inconsistency, both of them often throw sarcasm at each other on social media. But the latest tweet from the Tesla and SpaceX boss was horrendous and considered a bit outrageous, he mocked the Microsoft founder as a 'Pregnant Man'.
Elon Musk juxtaposed a photo of Bill Gates with a Pregnant Man emoji. "If you need to get rid of mistakes quickly," he wrote in the post.
I don't know what triggered Elon Musk to upload the tweet. But whatever the reason, it's not good enough to mock someone's physique.
in case u need to lose a boner fast pic.twitter.com/fcHiaXKCJi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2022
That's why many replies to these tweets contain more criticism. "Okay... That's a little petty. Not even sure why you tweeted something like that," replied the account @j_reimer.
"I will exercise my absolutist right of free speech here, this is a very heinous and childish thing to post. You are smarter than this," Brian McManus sincerely wrote on his account @TheBrianMcManus.
But some netizens linked the mocking tweet to Musk's anger at Gates for trying to shorten Tesla's holdings of half a billion dollars. This could push Tesla's share price down.
Twitter user Whole Mars Catalog, which shared an image of a conversation between Elon Musk and Bill Gates. It is said that Gates texted Elon Musk to discuss "philanthropy" on climate change.
So apparently Bill Gates hit up @elonmusk to discuss “philanthropy on climate change” but Elon asked if he still had a half billion dollar short position on $TSLA.
Bill said he hasn't closed it out, so Elon told him to get lost. No idea if this is true lol pic.twitter.com/iuHkDG3bAd
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) April 22, 2022
However, Elon Musk has confronted Gates by asking if he still has half a billion short positions in Tesla stock. Gates said, "Sorry to say, I haven't closed it yet", meaning that Melinda's ex-husband still holds a sizeable short position at Tesla, which could hurt Tesla's stock price.
An outraged Musk responded to Bill Gates by saying that he couldn't take climate change philanthropy seriously when he had a huge short position on Tesla, the company that is doing the most to solve Climate Change.
Twitter users tagged Elon Musk to confirm whether the incident was true. The richest man in the world responded by saying it was true, but he didn't divulge it to the New York Times.
“They must have gotten it through a friend of a friend. I hear from a lot of people at TED that Gates still has half a billion short in Tesla, which is why I asked him, so it's no big secret,” Musk said.
Perhaps because so many have responded to his tweets with criticism, Elon Musk has finally responded to his own tweets. "Shadow band board is reviewing tweets," he wrote.
Bill Gates himself has not responded to Musk's post. We'll see what Gates will answer.
