After news broke that Elon Musk had officially become the world’s first trillionaire, it wasn’t the least bit surprising to see Democrat politicos pounce and seize on the talking point that it was actually a bad thing, and that Musk should be punished for it by paying more of what they viewed as his “fair share.”
There was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), whose net worth is around $2.5 million and who owns three homes:
There was his fellow Democratic Socialist, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose rich parents have a second luxury home in Uganda:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who owns two homes and whose net worth is reportedly around $12 million, had a bit of a mini-meltdown, posting a video of her reaction on X, claiming Musk has been the beneficiary of a “rigged economy,” and calling for a wealth tax:
“We’re living in a time when more and more people are just hanging on by their fingernails to survive in this economy, and Elon Musk has more money and more wealth than anyone in human history,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a video posted to social platform X. “I want to be clear — this is not just some fluke. It is a feature of a rigged economy.”
As Legal Insurrection‘s Leslie Eastman pointed out in her Friday rundown of the Musk/SpaceX news, “Not only did CEO Elon Musk become a trillionaire, but many SpaceX employees are now incredibly wealthy from the stock they earned by being part of this success.”
This is one of the many points made by critics on X in response to Warren’s tweets:
Amen.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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