Elon Musk knows how to stay in the news. He was extremely vocal about his support for Donald Trump in the run-up to the US presidential election, even joining him at a campaign rally. The election night saw him use his social media platform X extensively. And now that Trump has won, he is likely to make headlines even more.
He has predicted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will go out of power soon. Replying to a post, he stated that Trudeau will lose in the upcoming Canadian federal election, scheduled to take place by October 2025.
A social media user requested Musk to help them get rid of Trudeau, to which he wrote, “He will be gone in the upcoming election.”
It all started when a Swedish journalist posted a message about the German government. “The German Socialist government has COLLAPSED and there are now talks about a snap election,” he wrote.
The SpaceX CEO reposted the message, calling called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a “fool” after the collapse of his three-party coalition. Writing in German, he wrote, “Olaf ist ein Narr” (“Olaf is a fool”).
Another user wrote below, “Elon Musk we need your help in Canada getting rid of Trudeau”. Musk confidently replied that Trudeau is going to lose.
Musk has spoken against Trudeau earlier as well, saying that his government was “crushing free speech” in the country. He slammed Trudeau in 2023 after the Canadian government made it compulsory for online streaming services to formally register with the government for ‘regulatory controls’.
Musk even compared Trudeau to Hitler in 2022 when he invoked emergency powers to hand more power to his government to tackle truckers who were protesting against the vaccine mandates.
Canada censors Australia Today
Trudeau’s government was just days back again accused of hindering media when it blocked the social media pages of Australia Today, a prominent media outlet. This was done after a presser of India’s EAM Jaishankar and his Australian counterpart Penny Wong was covered by Australia Today.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that this highlights the hypocrisy of Canada’s “freedom of speech”.
“We understand that social media pages have been blocked. This happened hours after EAM Jaishankar, Australia FM Wong’s presser. We were surprised. Highlights the hypocrisy of Canada’s freedom of speech,” Randhir Jaiswal said during a weekly briefing.
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