Elon Musk Exhaustingly Resurrects His Weird Feud With Mark Zuckerberg
The Tesla CEO still wants to fight.
Elon Musk just declared heâd fight Mark Zuckerberg âany place, any time, any rules.â DĂ©jĂ vu much?
While Musk was at Capitol Hill on Wednesday as a guest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an ABC News reporter asked him if he was still considering fighting the Meta CEO.
Last year, the two tech billionaires floated the idea of a televised fight after Musk tweeted that he would be âup for a cage fightâ against Zuckerberg. âI have this great move that I call âThe Walrus,â where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing,â said Musk at the time.
Zuckerberg, on the other hand, is trained in Brazilian jiujitsu.
The cage fight served as a strange proxy for the feuding tech bossesâ social media companies and additionally distracted from Muskâs billion-dollar losses that year across his portfolio.
After going back and forth for more than a month, determining location and hyping up the event in August, Zuckerberg suddenly said it was âtime to move onâ from the cage fight idea.
Zuckerberg still seems over the fight idea. âAre we really doing this again?â he wrote Wednesday on Threads, Metaâs response to X (formerly Twitter), in response to a post about Muskâs comment.
Zuckerbergâs disinterested tone is probably representative of how most Americans feel about the fight.
Recently, Musk and Zuckerberg have both spent their free time sucking up to presidential candidate Donald Trump. Musk reportedly pledged to donate $45 million a month to Trumpâs campaign, a promise he is now trying to walk back. Zuckerberg said he thought Trump was âbadassâ when he raised his fist after a bullet grazed his ear.
With these tech billionaires meddling in politics, it begs the question: Can you really fight if youâre on the same team?