Billionaire, inventor and philanthropist Ilon Musk, who recently celebrated the 49th birthday, again in news headlines

For West, against Trump

The entrepreneur said that he would support the candidacy of his friend, the popular rapper Kanye West, who announced that he was nominating his candidate for the president of the United States.

Considering that America covered the wave of racial unrest under the slogans of the BLM movement (BlackliveSmatter - Black Life is important), African American West, married to the star of social networks and glossy magazines Kim Kardashian, has every chance not to win, but to “bring a rustle” as an independent candidate, about the need for which the American firm Political scientists.

If Elon Musk is ready to allocate part of his 25 billion dollars for these purposes, it will only be more interesting.

Musk first supported Trump and was part of his entrepreneurship advisers, but left the council after the president announced the release of the United States from the International Climate Protection Agreement. After that, Trump tried to maintain good relations, called the mask “a great genius”, compared with Edison.

When the billionaire announced the resumption of the Tesla plant in California, contrary to the order of the state governor to maintain a restriction regime caused by Pandemia of the Coronavirus, Trump demanded that the state authorities resolve the mask of the production of electric vehicles.

“I will open the enterprise, even if I am arrested,” said Musk and threatened to transfer the headquarters of Tesla and the production of electric vehicles to neighboring states-Nevada and Texas. When the former US Minister of Labor Richard Reich wrote that a mask threat is “a manifestation of capitalism in its worst form”, a billionaire answered in his twitter in a word and for some reason in Russian: “idiot”.

Exchange of jokes

In Roscosmos, they laughed at the fact that the founder of Spacex and the head of Tesla writes in social networks, curses in Russian and remembered the film “17 Moments of Spring”. Andrei Ionin, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after Tsiolkovsky, suggested that the American billionaire is a Russian spy, and, having drunk in connection with the celebration of Victory Day, spoke in Russian. The head of Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, supported the joke on his twitter: “Shtirlitz had never been so close to failure.”

Rogozin and Musk, I must say, have long been exchanged jokes. When the United States imposed on the next sanctions, the Russian official suggested that it should be forbidden to take American astronauts aboard the Union, let them fly into space “on a trampoline”. It was a reference to the fact that since 2011, the United States relied on Russian spacecraft to deliver astronauts to the ISS (by the way, the profitable business - NASA paid for the flight of one astronaut up to $ 86 million).

The vindictive Musk answered Rogozin when for the first time in history a private manned ship SpaceX Crew Dragon delivered Robert Benken and Douglas Hurley aboard the ISS. “Batut works! - Rogozin Musk answered and noted the fundamental difference:

“Our (American) missiles by 80% can be used again, and there are 0% of them, and this is the problem.”

Red shorts

Last weekend website, the Mask online store collapsed a few minutes after a new and unexpected product was put up for the sale: not electric cars, but red shorts on which were displayed in gold letters in front-“Tesla”, “S3XY” behind.

The latest Mask joke is about the financial successes of his company. Tesla became the “most valuable” automobile company in the world, its market value exceeded the cost of Toyota. Wall Street now estimates Tesla at $ 250 billion (Toyota pulls 205). And this despite the fact that the Mask company sells much fewer cars than its leading competitors. Toyota and its subsidiaries sold 10.7 million cars in 2019, Tesla - 367,500. The cost of its shares over the year increased six times.

And the entrepreneur decided to mock those investors who skeptically reacted to the prospects of Tesla. The term “Shorts” (in addition to the item of clothing) on ​​exchange jargon means holders of “short positions” in the market playing to lower in order to “bring down” the company and buy up shares by cheap.

“S3XY” is an abbreviation in which a reference to the company's electric cars is encrypted: Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y.

Let's get back to shorts. They are made of satin fabric and released with a strictly limited circulation. Tesla advertises a new product: “Class the summer in Tesla shorts. Run like a wind, or have fun like Liberace ( a pianist musician, known in the past lifestyle. - A.P. ) with our red and gold design. Relax at the pool or relax in the room all year round in our shorts, enjoy exceptional comfort. ”

Three minutes after Musk posted a link to shorts on Twitter, he wrote: "Damn, we brought down the site." The Tesla online store was unavailable for a while, and by the morning of Monday, only the size of the XL remained on sale.

Now Tesla is on the rise, the production of electric vehicles will expand. In addition to California, the company recently opened the plant in China and plans to do it in Germany. The media write about the possible construction of the fourth plant in Texas.

Mask as a general director receives huge payments every time the company's shares price increase by $ 50 billion. If Tesla remains higher than its current level of $ 200 billion, Musk will receive the right to a new payment of a bonus of hundreds of millions of dollars. Mask earnings are directly related to the financial success of the company and nothing else. In 2015, he appointed himself a salary of $ 1 a year.

Corona-Skiptik

Ilona Mask cannot be called a “dissident crown”, he does not deny the fact of pandemia, but sharply opens against the government of the government to self-isolate the population, calls them a violation of the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens, principles laid down in the foundation of America. And when the Internet company Amazon refused to publish a new book about the coronavirus of the former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, in which the author casts in question the productivity of measures for the massive closure of the economy, Musk immediately stood up for the journalist.

The entrepreneur recorded on his Twitter: “This is madness! Amazon, you have become monopolists, you should be disbanded! " And literally two hours after the publication on Twitter, the journalist received a notice from the subsidiary of Amazon: we publish a book, the refusal was a mistake. Last weekend, the book became a bestseller.

Prototype "Iron Man"

In May, the seventh child was born at the mask. The name of the son is X æ A-12. Poor child, they write on the Internet, with the name of him will be mocked at school?! By the way, in childhood, Ilon himself got a lot from his peers, he even broke his nose when he studied in Praetory, South Africa and was a typical “botan” that sported sports and other hobbies of classmates.

Due to extravagance and strange jokes, Musk became a favorite of mass media, glossy magazines and high-society parties. The director of the Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man John Favro, before filming the very first part of the film, sent the main role of Robert Dauni Jr. to talk with the mask at the SpaceX space rockets to understand what Tony Stark should be-the Iron Man.

But behind the bright shell of an eccentric and an eternal child, a steel rod is hidden. From childhood, Elon Musk is used not only to set, but also to solve problems. Not all of his projects were successful. And the SpaceX program after the first three failures was at risk of closing. And the production of the Tesla electric car, which was started in unsuccessful time of the World Economic Reserve, was on the verge of closing.

But in the very last moments, both investors were for new missiles and electric vehicles. Failures so far accompany the tests of the prototype of a large spaceship for the expedition to Mars, pushing the planned planet colonization with pushing the planned time. But, as Ilon Musk says:

- Mistakes are not scary to make. The main thing is to make mistakes every time in something new.

- I want to be part of what changes the world.

- I would like to die on Mars - but not from a blow to the surface.

And if you believe the “rules of life” a mask, when he puts on the shirt “occupy Mars”, posing with a baby named X æ A-12, he really believes that he will build, equip and personally lead the first expedition to the Red Planet. To do this, he is ready to work 100 hours a week. And the rest of the time - to mix the world with your jokes.