Elon Musk joined Trump-Zelensky call amid concerns for future of Ukraine war
Source: CNN
Tech tycoon Elon Musk joined a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the day after the presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
According to another source, Trump was with Musk at Mar-a-Lago when Zelensky called to congratulate the president-elect for what a source briefed on the call described as a positive and cordial conversation.
Trump put the call on speaker and Zelensky thanked Musk for his help with providing communications through Starlink to Ukraine in the ongoing war with Russia. The call was roughly seven minutes long, and no policy was discussed, the source said.
Zelensky previously said on X that he called Trump on Wednesday and congratulated him on his historic landslide win. We agreed to maintain close dialogue and advance our cooperation. Strong and unwavering US leadership is vital for the world and for a just peace, Zelensky wrote at the time. CNN is reaching out to Musk and Trumps teams about the call, which was first reported by Axios.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/08/europe/ukraine-trump-elon-musk-zelensky-intl-latam
stillcool
(32,801 posts)womanofthehills
(9,306 posts)Tucker, Elon, Tulsi, Ramaswamy, JD, RFK Jr. - they all want the war with Ukraine to end. Supposedly- Elon is going to downsize the gov, RFK Jr to work on how our food is produced. -
Montauk6
(8,735 posts)CentralMass
(15,561 posts)JoseBalow
(5,456 posts)CentralMass
(15,561 posts)PortTack
(34,751 posts)Musk isnt going to help Ukraine and neither is tsf!
Initech
(102,241 posts)womanofthehills
(9,306 posts)And I read if the war isnt settled soon, Africa will have a big food problem because it depends on Ukrainian grains.
Autumn
(46,496 posts)or is he locked in a closet in mar a lardo?
Grokenstein
(5,846 posts)He knows what dementia donnie tried to do to his last veep, and dementia donnie knows he knows. It's just a matter of time before the knives come out if they haven't already. dementia donnie's leash-handlers probably have orders to keep them well apart.
...the de facto president. He's the one with the true wealth and power here.
NickB79
(19,654 posts)Walz nailed it.
Martin68
(24,638 posts)Welcome to the new global order.
Leith
(7,855 posts)A simple transcript won't cut it.
Musk is entirely to close to and comfortable with the high levels of the US government. Do heads of contracting companies join conversations like this often? Did Bill Gates? After all, he was the big cheese at Microsoft. Did he sit in on calls between heads of state since they used his OS?
Everything about that call stinks. I don't blame Zelensky - he had no choice but to kiss ass as best he could.
Jit423
(364 posts)I am also sure that Zelensky feels betrayed by the American voters too.
C Moon
(12,593 posts)cstanleytech
(27,111 posts)travelingthrulife
(868 posts)We are well and truly fucked.