Elon Musk used his X platform to deliver a simple, three-word plea to voters on Election Day: “Vote red today!”
But by early Wednesday — as it became clear that Democrats were swiping long-held seats from Republicans in this year’s midterms — the post went poof, goodbye, according to several media outlets as well as X’s own Grok chatbot.
Musk — who funneled $446 million into backing GOP candidates, a majority of which went to races in Texas — left a number of posts (and shares) hyping up Republicans and dissing their Democratic opponents untouched, but not without acknowledging the GOP took a major “L,” joking early Wednesday that he guessed his “election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time.”
The deletion by the billionaire — the biggest individual donor of the election cycle — adds to his history of scrubbing posts that could later make him look bad.
Take, for example, his very public split from Trump over his “big, beautiful bill” last year.
Musk — fresh off serving as the president’s chainsaw-wielding head of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency — used his platform to drop what he described as a “really big bomb”: that Trump was named in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Well, that “bomb” didn’t last long on X as the billionaire deleted it from the platform the very next week and expressed that his posts about the president “went too far.”
Tensions between the two have since eased, with Trump looping him into his “super intelligence” meeting at the White House in September and presenting him with a National Medal of Science last month.