Elon Musk Promises He Won’t Take His Rocket Ships and Go Home After Some Rando Tells Him To Chill
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Billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk walked back his decision on decommissioning SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on Thursday after a random social media account with less than 200 followers told him to calm down.
After President Donald Trump threatened to terminate Musk’s government subsidies and contracts as the two men clashed online, Thursday, Musk announced, “In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.”
“This is a shame this back and forth. You are both better than this,” replied one random account with less than 200 followers on Musk’s social network X. “Cool off and take a step back for a couple days.”
Amazingly, Musk decided to take the advice of the random user, responding, “Good advice. Ok, we won’t decommission Dragon.”
The successful intervention of X user @Fab25june earned them several hundred more followers from users who thanked them for changing Musk’s mind.
“An account with 184 followers has achieved de-escalation between two of the most powerful people in the world,” reacted Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal.
“Some random bluecheck with 127 twitter followers just saved the entire united states space program,” weighed in one user, while others called on the government to put user @Fab25june in charge of peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump and Musk traded insults and jabs on Thursday, just one week after Musk left the Trump administration as a special government employee, with Musk even insinuating that the president had engaged in unlawful behavior with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
