‘Why Are You Gay?’ Elon Musk Rages at Top Trump Official Over Loss of Government Contract
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Former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) showrunner Elon Musk raged at Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday, accusing him of “trying to kill NASA” in an angry series of tweets that included a derogatory nickname.
Musk and Duffy had previously sparred over Musk’s efforts at DOGE.
“I think it might not have been intentional, might have been ham-handed [like] some of the requests that were made by [the Department of Government Efficiency], but my position was, we are not going to fire air traffic controllers,” Duffy told The New York Post‘s Miranda Devine earlier this year. “Safety-critical positions are not going to be fired within the Department of Transportation. We can do things more efficiently … but we are not going to fire air controllers. And so we had a little back and forth, [but] we got along very well after that. I think the papers made it a bigger deal than it was.”
Hostilities reignited on Monday, however, when Duffy told CNBC that Musk’s SpaceX was falling “behind” the administration’s timeline for returning to the moon and that he was going to allow other companies to compete for the government contract to do so.
“We’re not going to wait for one company,” said Duffy, who is also serving as the acting administrator of NASA. “We’re going to push this forward and win the second space race against the Chinese. Get back to the moon, set up a camp, a base.”
Duffy even shared a tweet amplifying his comments.
Musk has not taken kindly to Duffy’s remarks.
First, he responded to Duffy’s tweet with a GIF of a famous exchange in which an African anchor asked a guest, “Why are you gay?”
Then, he took a shot at Blue Origin, SpaceX’s Jeff Bezos-owned rival.
And on Tuesday, he continued his volley of attacks, deeming Duffy “Sean Dummy,” accusing him of trying to “kill NASA,” and arguing that “The person responsible for America’s space program can’t have a 2 digit IQ.”
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