You should see the other guys,” said Musk after it was reported that the president-elect plans to kill a generous tax subsidy for electric vehicles.

The tech billionaire is a fairly late converter to Trumpism – rowing behind the Republican following the first failed assassination attempt on Trump. In that time, he has quickly become one of his loudest cheerleaders. It helps that as the owner of X – formerly known as Twitter – Musk has a huge audience at his fingertips.