SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has again slammed United States President Joe Biden after the Democrat praised Tesla's competitors General Motors and Ford during the State of the Union address on Tuesday night but did not mention his electric vehicle company.
In an email, Musk said that nobody was watching Biden's State of the Union. The Tesla CEO's remarks came after Biden said that Ford was investing $11 billion and creating 11,000 job opportunities in the electric vehicle market while GM was investing $7 billion and creating 4,000 jobs.
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Musk vs Biden
The 50-year-old billionaire entrepreneur said that Tesla has already created more than 50,000 job opportunities and invested more than double both GM and Ford combined. On Tuesday night following Biden's address, the president's Twitter account reiterated his remarks about the investments and job opportunities.
In a Twitter post, Musk responded by revealing how much money Tesla has invested and how many jobs it has created in the electric vehicle market. The two men have been in a longstanding feud, with the most recent incident coming in January when Musk called Biden a "damp sock puppet in human form," as per the Daily Mail.
Musk previously claimed that President Biden had pointedly ignored mentioning Tesla due to their argument with each other. He noted that if he was ever invited to a White House event, he would do the right thing.
So far, the Tesla CEO has yet to attend an official Biden White House meeting with other corporate leaders, including ones that included executives from Ford and GM. Biden and senior White House officials have privately suggested to their allies that they had no immediate plans of inviting the billionaire to any upcoming meetings with senior executives.
According to CNBC, the incident between Biden and Musk in January was when the president had a meeting with GM CEO Mary Barra and Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley. They attended a briefing with other corporate leaders to talk about the president's Build Back Better initiative which was stalled in Congress
Ignoring Tesla's Achievements
Tesla's factory in Fremont, California is known to be the most productive automotive plant in entire North America. The company's facility produces an average of 8,550 cars every single week. Tesla has plans to expand its production in the U.S. and elsewhere this year as the company builds a new factory in Texas, Berlin, and expands existing ones in Shanghai.
But the White House is wary of being associated with the electric vehicle company due to non-unionized workforces and allegations that Tesla has actively suppressed union activity. A California regulator sued Tesla last month for racial discrimination for allegedly operating a "racially segregated workplace."
Many supporters of Musk launched an online petition last month to get President Biden to "acknowledge Tesla's leadership in the electric vehicle market. The petition quickly received 60,000 signatures. The massive support for the petition prompted Biden to later recognize the company's achievements on Feb. 8, calling Tesla "our nation's largest electric vehicle manufacturer," Fortune reported.
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