In what appeared to be a dark Twitter joke on Sunday night, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that he could “die under mysterious circumstances” after he was apparently threatened by Russia’s space chief Dmitry Rogozin.
“The delivery of the Starlink equipment was carried out by the Pentagon. Elon Musk, thus, is involved in supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communication equipment,” read the statement. “And for this, Elon, you will be held accountable like an adult—no matter how much you’ll play the fool.”
Musk commented that the “word ‘Nazi’ doesn’t mean what [Rogozin] seems to think it does.” He subsequently tweeted, “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya,” and later, “There are no angels in war.”
Maye Musk, the billionaire’s mother, replied to the “nice knowin ya” post by writing, “That’s not funny,” leading her son to add, “Sorry! I will do my best to stay alive.”
Musk and Rogozin have entered one another’s radars before. In 2014, the Russian official responded to Western sanctions by joking that the U.S. should use a trampoline to transport its astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), given that NASA was relying on Russian spacecraft for its crewed missions. Six years later, NASA used a SpaceX rocket to send two NASA astronauts to the ISS. Musk then capitalized on the launch by offering a counterpunch to Rogozin’s jab. “The trampoline is working!” he said in 2020.
Source: Elon Musk Teases His Own “Mysterious” Death, His Mom Says, “That’s Not Funny” | Vanity Fair
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