Trump, Musk meet at Kirk memorial service
Musk and Trump shake hands in the President’s box inside the State Farm Arena, the first time they have met since Musk left the White House. MUsk:
For Charlie
For Charlie pic.twitter.com/8092jIt319
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 21, 2025
The Royal Society to debate Musk’s status
Responding to concerns from fellows about Musk’s political views, Sir Smith says in an email that the leadership of The Royal Society, which inducted Musk as a fellow in 2018, will meet to discuss his status on October 1.
You will all be aware that political polarisation and its accompanying rhetoric are increasing in Western democracie. I am sure that many of you will share my concern at the events of the last week and the growing tendency to resort to the language of violence in pursuit of political programmes that are founded upon narratives of division and simplistic stereotypes of political opponents – including, unfortunately, an address to the recent London rally from a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Musk Buys $1 Billion Tesla shares
Musk purchases $1 billion worth of Tesla shares, marking his first open-market buy since 2020. This acquisition involves 2.6 million shares, increasing his stake beyond 13%. The move boosts Tesla’s stock price by nearly 10%, closing at $410.26.
Pope criticizes Musk’s $1Tr pay proposal Proposal
In his first interview since assuming the role, Pope Leo XIV criticizes Musk’s proposed $1 trillion pay package from Tesla, calling it a symbol of societal inequality, expresses concern over the growing wealth gap and its potential to incite unrest.
The value of human life, of the family, and the value of society. If we lose the sense of those values, what matters anymore? Add on top of that a couple of other factors, one which I think is very significant is the continuously wider gap between the income levels of the working class and the money that the wealthiest receive. For example, CEOs that 60 years ago might have been making four to six times more than what the workers are receiving, the last figure I saw, it’s 600 times more than what average workers are receiving. Yesterday the news that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world. What does that mean and what’s that about? If that is the only thing that has value anymore, then we’re in big trouble…
Tesla chair defends Musk pay package
Our view is the opportunity ahead is far greater with Elon at the helm than without. You can’t say ‘I want Elon but I don’t want this bit,’ or ‘Can you dial up this bit?’ I lean into tough discussions…Sometimes he listens, sometimes he doesn’t, and that’s his prerogative…I’ve never, never been worried that he hasn’t devoted enough time to Tesla, even while he was in Washington…It’s not time that I measure, it’s output.
Musk at ‘Unite The Kindom’ rally: ‘Fight back or die’
Appearing via video link, Musk talks with Robinson, urging the “Unite The Kingdom” rally in London to “fight back” or “die” as well as to change the government of the UK. The event had an estimated 110,000 attendees.
I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can’t – we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long…Something’s got to be done. There’s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held…My appeal is to British common sense, which is to look carefully around you and say: ‘If this continues, what world will you be living in?
This is a message to the reasonable centre, the people who ordinarily wouldn’t get involved in politics, who just want to live their lives. They don’t want that, they’re quiet, they just go about their business. My message is to them: if this continues, that violence is going to come to you, you will have no choice. You’re in a fundamental situation here. Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think.
A lot of the woke stuff is actually super-racist, it’s super-sexist and often it’s anti-religion, but only anti-Christian, like why anti-Christian? That’s unfair … that should be all that matters, the woke mind virus, that I call it, is against all that.
Musk offered $1 trillion pay package
Musk receives a proposed $1 trillion pay package from Tesla, contingent on achieving ambitious goals over the next decade. The plan grants him 423 million shares if Tesla reaches an $8.5 trillion market value, delivers 20 million vehicles, and produces one million humanoid robots and robo-taxis. Shareholders will vote on the package in November. Tesla says the package is incentive-driven:
If Elon achieves all the performance milestones […] his leadership will propel Tesla to become the most valuable company in history. [We] believes hat Mr Musk’s vision and leadership are critical to nailing that execution.
Starship 10 test
SpaceX launches its 10th Starship test flight, using Booster-16 and Ship-37 from Starbase, Texas. The mission focuses on validating upgrades to the thermal protection system, testing new hexagonal heat-shield tiles under a steeper reentry profile. For the first time, the flight carries a payload of eight mock Starlink satellites, released via a new “Pez”-style dispenser to simulate future operational deployments. The Super Heavy booster executes lift-off, stage separation, and a controlled boost-back toward the Gulf of Mexico before splashing down as planned. Ship-37 coasts on a suborbital path toward the Indian Ocean, survives maximum heating during reentry, and splashes down within its target zone after a flight of just over an hour. Musk:
Great work by the SpaceX team!!
Great work by the SpaceX team!! https://t.co/Dy1TPmr4kX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2025
Starship 8 test
Flight Test 8 takes place using Booster-15 (Block 2) and Ship-34. The booster is caught successfully by the tower (“chopstick” arms) again, marking a repeat catch achievement. Ship-34, however, suffers multiple engine shutdowns (4 of 6 engines prematurely) during flight, loses attitude control, telemetered data ends, then the vehicle is destroyed before completing full mission objectives. The flight also carries approx. 8,000 kg of payload of Starlink mass simulators, but the mission ends in disintegration due to loss of control and hardware failures. Musk:
Not easy making life multiplanetary
Not easy making life multiplanetary
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2025
Starship 7 test
Starship Flight Test 7 launches from Starbase, Texas with Booster-14 (Block 2) and Ship-33 (first Block 2 upper stage). The mission carries ten Starlink “simulators” on a suborbital trajectory and tries new avionics, upgraded heat shield tiles, and reentry experiments. Booster-14 returns and is caught by the tower via the “chopstick” arms, undamaged and reusable. However, Ship-33 (upper stage) loses telemetry and suffers engine shutdowns late in ascent; it breaks apart mid-flight over the Turks and Caicos Islands. Musk:
Starship made it to the scheduled ship engine cutoff, so big improvement over last flight! Also, no significant loss of heat shield tiles during ascent. Leaks caused loss of main tank pressure during the coast and re-entry phase. Lot of good data to review. Launch cadence for next 3 flights will be faster, at approximately 1 every 3 to 4 weeks.
Starship made it to the scheduled ship engine cutoff, so big improvement over last flight! Also, no significant loss of heat shield tiles during ascent.
Leaks caused loss of main tank pressure during the coast and re-entry phase. Lot of good data to review.
Launch cadence for…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 28, 2025
Lottery case dropped
Philadelphia DA Krasner drops his legal case against Musk and America PAC.
Kindly mark this case Discontinued and Ended as to all parties without prejudice, with all parties bearing their own costs.
The lawsuit from Larry Krasner in Philadelphia against Elon Musk and his @america super PAC has been officially dropped. pic.twitter.com/Wr7TXnHxXM
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) November 25, 2024
Musk criticises F-35 builders against drone swarms
Referencing a viral video of a large-scale, coordinated, drone swarms, Musk says:
Meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35
Followed with a series of replies to X comments :
It’s a shit design…The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed.
Crewed fighter jets are an inefficient way to extend the range of missiles or drop bombs. A reusable drone can do so without all the overhead of a human pilot. And fighter jets will be shot down very quickly if the opposing force has sophisticated SAM or drones, as shown by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard .
Some US weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced, but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program!
Meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35 🗑️ 🫠
pic.twitter.com/4JX27qcxz1— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2024
Musk confirms X link post deprioritization
After Graham complains that the deprioritization of links in X posts:
The deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter’s biggest flaw. It bothers me more than all the new right-wing trolls. Trolls I’m used to, but what draws me to Twitter is to find out what’s going on, and you can’t do that without links.
Musk responds:
Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking.
Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2024
Musk: UK is ‘tyrannical police state’
In response to a post about an online petition that is circulation in the UK, asking for a new General Election to out Labour, Musk says:
The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state.
The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state https://t.co/0PtR5qQOKw
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2024
Musk, Trump Jr discuss buying MSNBC
Quoting a post from an account that claims MSNBC has been put up for sale by Comcast, because “lying non-stop to your audience is a lousy business model,” Donald Trump Jr tags Musk, saying:
Hey Elon Musk I have the funniest idea ever!!!
In response, Musk writes:
How much does it cost?…The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely.
How much does it cost?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2024
Bezos: Musk’s ‘sell Tesla, SpaceX’ claim ‘100% not true’
In response to Musk’s claim that Bezos said Trump would win and that people should sell Tesla and SpaceX stock:
Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock
Bezos responds, saying it is not true:
Nope. 100% not true.
Musk then says he stands corrected:
Well, then, I stand corrected
Well, then, I stand corrected 😂
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2024
Musk to Jaguar: Do you even sell cars?
Musk responds to Jaguar’s new branding advert:
Do you even sell cars?
To which the company replies:
Yes. We’d love to show you. Join us for a cuppa in Miami on 2nd December? Warmest regards, Jaguar
Musk:
I look forward to seeing your new vehicle lineup.
Do you sell cars?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2024
Trump, Cruz attend Starship launch with Musk
President-elect Trump, along with Cruz, attend the test launch of Starship 6. Trump is the first US president to attend a Starship launch. Before arriving, Trump posted:
I’m heading to the Great State of Texas to watch the launch of the largest object ever to be elevated, not only to Space, but simply by lifting off the ground. Good luck to @ElonMusk and the Great Patriots involved in this incredible project!
Thank you, Donald Trump, for joining to witness the historic Starship launch today. 🇺🇸
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) November 19, 2024
Starship 6 Test
SpaceX conducts its sixth test of Super Heavy booster (Booster 13) and Starship (Ship 31) at Starbase, Texas. The test focusses on operational improvements, including experiments with the heat shield, flying the spacecraft at a steeper reentry angle to gather data on thermal protection system performance. The flight carried a banana as payload. After a successful launch and hot-stage separation, the Booster was diverted to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico instead of being caught by the Mechazilla arms. Ship 31 reignited one of its Raptor engines in space, and after a flight of 1hr 5 mins completed its splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Musk:
Successful ocean landing of Starship! We will do one more ocean landing of the ship. If that goes well, then SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower.
Successful ocean landing of Starship!
We will do one more ocean landing of the ship. If that goes well, then SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower. https://t.co/osFud7XXPo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2024
Musk: ‘Britain is going full Stalin’
Musk says the UK Government of going “full Stalin” by increasing inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million. Sharing a Guardian article on the plan, he says:
Britain is going full Stalin
Asked for a response to Mr Musk’s criticisms, a government spokesperson says:
[We will not] get into a back and forth on individual comments. We will continue to engage with the industry and explain how the process works, and it remains the case that we expect the vast majority to be unaffected by the changes.
Britain is going full Stalin https://t.co/GYtwBMu11S
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2024