‘He Did This While Kids Are Dying in Trenches’ – Musk Slams Zelensky With Allegations of Graft, Vanity and Despotism
US leader Donald Trump’s adviser and the world’s wealthiest man, Elon Musk, took to his own social media network on Thursday to trash President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, accusing him of corruption, narcissism and acting as a dictator during martial law in Ukraine.
Musk started off his loyalist rant by claiming Ukrainians “despised” Zelensky and that Trump was right to leave him out of talks with Russia aimed at ending the Ukraine war.
The South African-born tech mogul has been Trump’s axe-man during his dismantling of government agencies, leading to the layoffs of an estimated 75,000 military veterans, career civil servants and other federal workers. But the unelected provocateur has also played a role in diplomacy, meeting with foreign leaders and, most recently, leaning in on the peace negotiations between the US, Ukraine and Russia.
After Zelensky turned down an initial US offer that would usurp the value of about half of Ukraine’s rare mineral deposits, Trump laid into Zelensky, calling him a dictator, to which Zelensky replied that Trump lived in a world of misinformation.
The White House then warned Zelensky to stop the “insults” against Trump and just sign the deal.
The SpaceX and Tesla tycoon then took to the X social network that he controls, accusing him without evidence of running a “massive graft machine feeding off the dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers.”
Next up on his agenda was a photo shoot for Vogue that Zelensky and his wife, Olena, posed for in 2022, taken by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, and titled “Portrait of Bravery: Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska”. The theme of the story was the bravery of the Ukrainian people faced with the newly launched Russian invasion of their country.
Musk lampooned the two-year-old photo shoot, quipping that “He did this while kids are dying in trenches on the war front.”
Source: Kyiv Post