A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump

Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.

“I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it,” Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.

  • Raltoid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    23 hours ago

    I seriously applaud whoever managed to push that through.

    I don’t support anything they do, but that is top tier comedy.

    • Joeffect@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      edit-2
      20 hours ago

      The dude with access to all of the federal government data gets offered asylum and you wonder how that happens?

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      21 hours ago

      Well both Trump and Elon have Russian ties. Right now Trump is the bigger asset to them. So if they publicly offer asylum to Musk, it makes Elon look like the worse bad guy and make Trump less bad and possibly slow any attempts to having him removed by the Senate.

      So Russia can get Elons money being spent there, and Trump’s dumbassery trying to reduce and remove sanctions against Russia.

      In their eyes it’s a win win.

  • ikidd@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    22 hours ago

    Of course he can, he’s earned it several time over. He’s done more damage to the US on Russia’s behalf than 50 years of Cold War ever did.

  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 day ago

    I’m not sure it’s a smart move by Russia if a Russian official sides with Musk at this point. Not saying it’s not a perfect match though.

    • Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 day ago

      I was honestly surprised that they went with such a statement. Putin is smart enough (smarter than much of the US) to understand that Trump is a lazy degenerate, but it seems a bit premature to openly ridicule Trump.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 day ago

    Take it! I mean, people act like he “owns” his companies but he owns like 8% of Tesla and SpaceX is probably similar. No one gives a shit about his monkey torture project and X+xAI is worthless. Boring Company isn’t doing anything. And if you’re the “CEO” of more than one company, you’re actually running zero. He’s a mascot. We could probably be rid of him for less than the price of widening an interstate for ignorant reasons.

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    Why elon musk doesn’t just leave? he have money, he can be doing anything, he can be learning how to bake, or, improving his gaming skills without the media eye