{"id":1559482,"date":"2022-07-18T12:28:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559482"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:34:18","slug":"fact-check-did-insider-publish-this-article-about-elon-musk-insulting-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-insider-publish-this-article-about-elon-musk-insulting-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Insider Publish This Article About Elon Musk Insulting Donald Trump?"},"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\">26<\/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-insider-publish-this-article-about-elon-musk-insulting-donald-trump%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=1559482&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-14T191523Z_3_LYNXMPEI6D0XJ_RTROPTP_4_TWITTER-M-A-MUSK-SEC-scaled-e1657830794694.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10224252110542728&#038;set=a.10202722222748989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows an Insider article about Tesla CEO Elon Musk insulting former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post is digitally fabricated. An Insider spokesperson confirmed the outlet did not publish such a headline.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trump referred to Musk as \u201canother bullshit artist\u201d during a July 10 rally in Alaska in response to the Tesla CEO\u2019s support of Democrats in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/3551329-trump-elon-musk-another-bulls-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill<\/a>. In response, Musk said on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1546669610509799424?s=20&#038;t=UCvdoV8Q_SKxBaWHU_J5Vg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> that it is time for Trump to \u201chang up his hat &#038; sail into the sunset.\u201d He also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1546669610509799424?s=20&#038;t=UCvdoV8Q_SKxBaWHU_J5Vg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suggested<\/a> the former president is too old to run for the presidency again.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook claims Musk recently took his criticism of Trump to the next level. It shows what appears to be a screenshot of a July 12 Insider article with a headline that reads, \u201cMusk claims Trump was the one on his knees and he was \u2018surprisingly good with his mouth.&#8217;\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/04\/fact-check-elon-musk-tweet-biden-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: FACT CHECK: Did Elon Musk Tweet, \u2018I Tried To Buy The Bidens, But The Chinese Wouldn\u2019t Sell Them?\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The purported headline appears to be a reference to a message Trump posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1547001325602443264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truth Social<\/a> in which he claimed that when he was president he could have made Musk beg on his knees for subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>The image shared on Facebook is digitally fabricated, however. No such article or headline could be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/s?q=Musk+claims+Trump+was+the+one+on+his+knees+and+he+was+%27surprisingly+good+with+his+mouth%27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insider\u2019s website<\/a> or verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Musk%20claims%20Trump%20was%20the%20one%20on%20his%20knees%20and%20was%20surprisingly%20good%20with%20his%20mouth%20(from%3A%40BusinessInsider)&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/businessinsider\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/20446254070\/search\/?q=Musk%20claims%20Trump%20was%20the%20one%20on%20his%20knees%20and%20he%20was%20%27surprisingly%20good%20with%20his%20mouth%27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accounts<\/a>. There are likewise no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Musk+claims+Trump+was+the+one+on+his+knees+and+he+was+%27surprisingly+good+with+his+mouth%27&#038;oq=Musk+claims+Trump+was+the+one+on+his+knees+and+he+was+%27surprisingly+good+with+his+mouth%27&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.646j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> suggesting Musk made such a comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis social media post is an altered image,\u201d said Amanda Howard, an Insider spokesperson, in an email to Check Your Fact. \u201cIt is not the original article.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image appears to be an altered version of a genuine July 12 Insider piece titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-elon-musk-beg-for-help-online-feud-esclates-2022-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump ramps up feud with Elon Musk, claiming he could have made Musk drop to his knees and beg for help when he was president<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This social media post is an altered image&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559482","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\/1559482","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\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}