After signing a law regarding transgender children, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media to criticize Elon Musk’s decision to move his aerospace company SpaceX and social media company X out of the state.
“You have caved,” Newsom wrote to X, along with a screenshot of a 2022 post from former President Trump criticizing the billionaire.
Earlier in the day, Musk called the “seal of the deal” Governor Newsom’s signing of a bill that bars school districts from requiring parents to notify if a child decides to change their gender identity.
“Due to this law, and many previous laws that attack both families and businesses, SpaceX will be relocating our headquarters from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas,” Musk wrote to X.
The Tesla CEO said he made it clear to Governor Newsom “about a year ago” that this type of legislation would force people to leave California, adding that he would be moving Tesla’s headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, Texas.
Newsom’s office confirmed it was a response to Musk’s announcement, which included a post by President Trump about the tech billionaire suggesting he was the reason for Musk’s success.
“When Elon Musk came to the White House and asked me for help with all the subsidy projects that were useless without them — low-range electric cars, self-driving cars that crash, rockets that go nowhere — and he told me what a big Trump fan he was and a Republican, I could have said, ‘Get on your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it,” Trump said.
Musk formally endorsed Trump after Saturday’s assassination attempt and donated to the America PAC. As the world’s richest man, Musk said he plans to give about $45 million a month to Trump.
The Hill has reached out to Mr. X for comment on the governor’s post.
