{"id":1457904,"date":"2022-04-29T10:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457904"},"modified":"2022-04-29T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:59:48","slug":"fact-check-did-elon-musk-call-donald-trump-a-dumbass-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-elon-musk-call-donald-trump-a-dumbass-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Elon Musk Call Donald Trump A \u2018Dumbass\u2019 On Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-elon-musk-call-donald-trump-a-dumbass-on-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/smotumo\/posts\/pfbid02vGANDEVbEDKiGnAL6GfjbYFC4paKCx9otgpwQ9PE8ichLvJGtfac8sVXJhTiLSCVl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> supposedly shows a 2018 tweet from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk calling former President Donald Trump a \u201cdumbass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Musk sending such a tweet. The image is fabricated.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX first launched its Falcon Heavy rocket into space in February 2018, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/06\/science\/falcon-heavy-spacex-launch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. The launch marked the first time a private company successfully launched a rocket into outer space, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image shows Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/tW019#selection-7269.0-7269.61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> that day congratulating Musk and his company, stating \u201c<span class=\"\">This achievement, along with @NASA\u2019s commercial and international partners, continues to show American ingenuity at its best!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Below that tweet is an alleged tweet in response from Musk that reads, \u201cI\u2019m from South Africa, you dumbass.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/16\/fact-check-footage-china-artificial-sun-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, This Footage Does Not Show China\u2019s \u2018Artificial Sun\u2019 Being Launched)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tweet is digitally altered. There is no record of the alleged tweet on Musk\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%22dumbass%22%20(from%3Aelonmusk)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a>. Rather, The SpaceX CEO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/961079361234497537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reply<\/a> to Trump\u2019s tweet about the Falcon Heavy was positive, stating, \u201cThank you on behalf of SpaceX. An exciting future lies ahead!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thank you on behalf of SpaceX. An exciting future lies ahead!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/961079361234497537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Elon+Musk+tweet+%22I%27m+from+South+Africa%2C+you+dumbass%22&#038;oq=Elon+Musk+tweet+%22I%27m+from+South+Africa%2C+you+dumbass%22&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57.12807j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports<\/a> suggesting Musk tweeted the derisive statement at Trump or anyone else. The SpaceX CEO was born in South Africa but holds U.S. and Canadian citizenship, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/who-is-elon-musk-and-what-made-him-big\/a-53591199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Musk recently reached an agreement with Twitter to buy the company for $44 billion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/exclusive-twitter-set-accept-musks-best-final-offer-sources-2022-04-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. The platform <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/suspension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanently suspended<\/a> Trump in January 2021, claiming that tweets he posted after the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol went against its policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook supposedly shows a 2018 tweet from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk calling former President Donald Trump a \u201cdumbass.\u201dVerdict: False There is no record of Musk sending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1480975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}