The White House said after the Trump comment that he used the word when discussing China’s reported plans to build cars in Mexico and sell them cheaply in the United States.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk defending former President Donald Trump on Sunday after multiple establishment media outlets ran headlines stating that the former president warned the U.S. would see a “bloodbath” if he is not reelected.
Trump made the comment at a political rally Saturday in Ohio
Such news outlets such as NPR, Politico, The Hill, NBC News, The New York Times used the word in headlines without context.
Musk said the headlines were “legacy media lies” and he made multiple posts Sunday criticizing their use of the term and stressing the need for context.
Musk also responded to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough’s post on X, formerly Twitter, of video clips from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the caption: “Donald Trump’s America. And he is proud of it. Promised another ‘bloodbath’ if he loses again.”
“Jan 6 was not a ‘bloodbath’ by any definition and Trump was referring to job losses in the auto industry when he used that word,” Musk, the owner of X, replied to Scarborough. “Your post is extremely misleading.”
