Elon Musk Makes Crude Joke About Bill Gate Pissed Over Tesla Shorts

Elon Musk has raised some feathers by comparing Bill Gates to an emoji that refers to transgender persons and it all appears to originate from a back-and-forth between the two that left Elon fuming.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk insulted Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Friday, publishing a photo of BG next to an emoji of a pregnant guy… a new one that was recently pushed out to be more inclusive of trans males. “In case u need to drop a b***r quickly,” Elon captioned.

shadow ban council reviewing tweet … pic.twitter.com/cawjtwc7CW

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2022

He responded by sarcastically tweeting an image of hooded individuals converging in a circle and saying, “shadow ban council examining tweet…”, presumably knowing that his first tweet had been misinterpreted. It’s also unmistakably linked to his current effort to purchase Twitter.

Of course, people were perplexed by the shot in the first place… but these leaked texts between Elon and Bill appear to provide further light on the situation.

So apparently Bill Gates hit up @elonmusk to discuss “philanthropy on climate change” but Elon asked if he still had a half billion dollar short position on $TSLA.

Bill said he hasn’t closed it out, so Elon told him to get lost. No idea if this is true lol pic.twitter.com/iuHkDG3bAd

— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) April 22, 2022

There’s no clarity on when this conversation took place, but Elon acknowledged the messages are genuine, stating they were presumably supplied to the NYT by friends of friends.

“I heard from numerous individuals at TED that Gates still had a half-billion short on Tesla, which is why I approached him,” he says.

If you look at the messages, it appears like Elon and Bill are attempting to arrange up a meeting of some sort, with BG wanting to discuss charity and climate change. But before that, Elon confronted him with a direct question: “You shorting my firm, bro?”

Yeah

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2022

Elon is enraged that Bill is betting against Tesla’s shares, speculating that the price will fall. Elon further claims that by investing in renewable energy, Tesla is helping to reduce climate change and that Bill’s approach is hypocritical in this regard.

We’ll concede, that this is billionaire-problems territory, but one thing is certain: Elon has no qualms about openly chastising anybody, especially his filthy affluent peers.