{"id":21179,"date":"2017-02-03T05:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2017-02-03T05:32:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:32:33","slug":"elon-musk-distances-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/elon-musk-distances-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk distances himself from Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Elon Musk distances himself from Donald Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Elon Musk distances himself from Donald Trump:- On the same day that Uber\u2018s Travis Kalanick stepped down from President Donald Trump\u2019s economic advisory council amid ongoing protests, Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk clarified that just because he\u2019s on the same panel doesn\u2019t mean he agrees with Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Musk also said he intends to bring up his objections to the executive order Trump issued last week temporarily banning immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries on Friday, when the council will meet with Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cAdvisory councils simply provide advice and attending does not mean that I agree with actions by the Administration,\u201d Musk tweeted late Thursday. \u201cI understand the perspective of those who object to my attending this meeting, but I believe at this time that engaging on critical issues will on balance serve the greater good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Regarding the meeting at the White House: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8b1XH4oW6h\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8b1XH4oW6h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/827330589191704576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Tesla has a passionate and loyal base of fans and customers, and many have been upset that clean-energy proponent Musk decided to engage with Trump, who has called climate change \u201ca hoax.\u201d Last month, Musk surprisingly endorsed the confirmation of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a former Exxon Mobil XOM, +0.61% CEO, who he called \u201can exceptionally competent executive,\u201d sparking an online backlash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">On Monday, Musk asked his supporters to suggest amendments to Trump\u2019s immigration ban that he can present to the president to constructively move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">As of yet, Tesla TSLA, +0.93% has not faced the same widespread protests that Uber has. Kalanick said Thursday that he was quitting the advisory board because his participation was being misinterpreted as an endorsement of Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Other advisory council members include JP Morgan Chase JPM, -0.42% chief executive Jamie Dimon, Walt Disney Co. DISN, -0.02% chief executive Bog Iger and IBM IBM, +0.17% chief executive Ginni Rometty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/elon-musk-distances-himself-from-donald-trump-2017-02-02<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/elon-musk-distances-donald-trump.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk distances himself from Donald Trump Elon Musk distances himself from Donald Trump:- On the same day that Uber\u2018s Travis Kalanick stepped down from President Donald Trump\u2019s economic advisory council amid ongoing protests, Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk clarified that just because he\u2019s on the same panel doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[13015,699,13014,925,13016,13017,6188],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-automobiles","tag-breaking-news","tag-elon-musk-distances-himself-from-donald-trump","tag-latest-usa-news","tag-manufacturing","tag-services","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}