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Comment by 11thEarlOfMar | Hacker News Reader

Would be cool if the article would explain Musk's reasoning for the support. 'Us rich guys gotta stick together.' isn't much of an analysis. Trump is anti union? As I understand it, Trump is not anti-union. He worked effectively with unions in New York for decades. But he seems to be anti union leadership.

So what was Musk thinking?

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I think on this one he's wearing it on his sleeve and I take his motivation at face value. If you want to know why, he tells you why on his twitter all the time.

It could be due to Trump's desire to replace the heads of many agencies like the EPA, etc, probably leading to deregulation. Elon's wet dream.

Musk's desperate for attention, would be my suspicion. Every time he's out of the news, he does something weird. This gets him in the news, ego it is desirable. I'm not sure you _really_ have to go looking for more complex motives than that.

All that is meaningless, supporting Trump makes the demographic he follows on X love him and fawn over him even more

Per Reuters, from May this year:

The NLRB has ruled that Tesla broke the law by barring factory workers in California from wearing union T-shirts and when CEO Elon Musk tweeted that employees would lose their stock options in the company if they unionized.

A long list re Trump on the Communication Workers website: https://cwa-union.org/trumps-anti-worker-record

He only jumped the trump when prediction markets guaranteed him winning (after shooting).

I can understand musk tho - current president propping up legacy auto hence oil industry is just not fair to tesla.

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