The World Economic Forum says billionaire Elon Musk wasn't on the guest list for the annual meeting of business executives, global leaders and cultural trend-setters in Davos, Switzerland — despite what the Twitter owner claims. Musk isn't among the notables gathering in the ritzy Alpine town this week to talk about global issues, though he says he was invited. Forum spokesman Yann Zopf knocked that down Tuesday, saying the last time the Tesla CEO got an invitation was "not this year and not recently — last time in 2015." Musk said in a tweet Dec. 22: "My reason for declining the Davos invitation" was because it sounded boring.
Elon Musk is defending his massive cost-cutting at Twitter as necessary for the social media platform to survive next year, in part due to debt payments tied to his $44 billion takeover of the company. Musk described Twitter as like a plane that is headed towards the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls don't work. He was speaking to a late-night audience on a Twitter Spaces call Tuesday. That's after Elon Musk said earlier on Tuesday that he plans on remaining as Twitter's CEO until he can find someone willing to replace him in the job.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk share a reputation as disrupters. Now, they're grappling with tribulations that may be unlike anything thrown at them before. Trump and Musk are known for their egos and have used Twitter to showcase their eccentricities. This week they face a reckoning, brought on in part by their relationship to the social media site now owned by Musk, the Tesla CEO. Trump is confronted with a congressional committee's recommendation to the Justice Department that he be criminally prosecuted for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by his supporters. Musk set up a Twitter poll in which most respondents said he should step down.
