Elon Musk is ‘Trumpian’ in the way he uses X: Ben Shapiro

Political commentator Ben Shapiro has defended Elon Musk as “definitely not an anti-Semite”, although described the tech billionaire as “Trumpian” in the way he uses X. Mr Musk faced criticism after he endorsed a post saying Jewish communities have been pushing "dialectical hatred against whites" – although has since apologised and visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp. “For people who are sort of jumping on various Twitter comments to suggest that he is (anti-Semitic), I would suggest that you look at the full corpus of everything that he’s had to say on anti-Semitism, on Israel, on what’s going on in the world post-October-7, it’s very hard to come to that conclusion," Mr Shapiro told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. “And one of the things that I’ve said about Elon is that … he can be Trumpian in the way that he uses Twitter. “That he sort of puts out whatever he’s thinking in the moment, unedited – that’s one of the benefits, it’s one of the drawbacks – very often he will then come back and sort of fill out exactly what it is that he meant to say. “Which is what happened in the case of that particular tweet.”