This is how most of the media is presenting it, like Trump flip-flopped, though Business Insider was more honest than most, even as they tried to shade Trump
Former President Donald Trump said he had “no choice” but to support electric vehicles after Tesla CEO Elon Musk “endorsed” him.
Trump then went on to criticize the EV industry at length.
Musk has long been a champion of the pivot to electric vehicles. His company Tesla has largely led the way in developing the industry, which for a time made Musk a darling of the climate-conscious left.
But Musk has more recently embraced conservative politics, especially the issue of free speech. Musk bought Twitter in 2022, rebranded it to X, and has dismantled many of the checks and balances meant to limit hateful speech and misinformation on the platform.
Wait, you mean free speech is a conservative issue? Huh, I guess Democrats are against it.
At a rally in Georgia on Saturday, Trump told the crowd he supported electric cars but thought people should still have access to gas vehicles.
“I’m for electric cars. I have to be because, you know, Elon endorsed me very strongly,” Trump told the crowd. “So, I have no choice.”
He then clarified that he only supports them as a “small slice” of the larger auto industry.
“You want to have gas-propelled cars. You want to have hybrids. You want to have every kind of car,” he said.
Exactly. It’s about choice. Not government forcing the peasants to buy EVs, all while the Elites continue to drive large, fossil fueled limos/EVs
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