Elon Musk is seemingly hankering for these halcyon days when America had a President who actually received him. You know, the sort of pro-business bigwig who isn’t afraid to inform the AFL-CIO to screw off? To make sure, that is not an apt description of our present POTUS, with whom Musk appears to be barely out of step.

Yes, not lengthy after casually dissing President Biden on Twitter, the Tesla CEO has finished it once more—this time throughout an interview at Code Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., the place he alleged that the brand new administration is “biased” in opposition to his firm and is (*gasp*) “controlled by unions.”

Musk seems to be sore after not getting invited to a current White House summit on electric vehicles. Biden’s August 5 meeting included Ford and General Motors, in addition to newly fashioned automaker Stellantis, however notably did not ship an RSVP to Tesla, even if the corporate reportedly produces the largest amount of EVs on the planet.

Relevantly, it has largely been interpreted that Musk was snubbed resulting from his firm’s overtly anti-labor stance. Indeed, when the Tesla CEO isn’t warding off union organizing inside its ranks, he’s been witnessed making an attempt to make excuses for why the corporate’s employees get injured so usually, or, perhaps, breaking labor legal guidelines by tweeting. The different three corporations that have been invited to the August EV summit are the “largest employers of the United Auto Workers,” WH press secretary Jen Psaki said, on the time.

When queried about Biden this week, Musk sounded off about the entire thing: “(They) didn’t mention Tesla once and praised GM and Ford for leading the EV revolution. Does that sound maybe a little biased?,” Musk stated, on the California convention. “Not the friendliest administration, seems to be controlled by unions.”

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Yes, what a disgrace it’s to have a president that isn’t completely frightened in regards to the opulent few and, gah, why can’t we simply have an administration that hates organized labor and loves Elon Musk?

Actually, that sounds an entire lot just like the final administration, a White House that everyone is aware of was a “pro-business,” anti-union, plutocratic mess that was useless set on selling any a part of the federal government that wasn’t nailed down. When questioned at Code Conference over whether or not he wished President Trump again, Musk’s response was “no…,” with no actual elaboration.

But, eh, I don’t know. As two billionaires largely accustomed to treating their employees like shit, you’d assume that former President Trump and Elon would have an honest quantity in frequent. At the very least, the 2 appeared to hang around lots over the previous 4 years, beginning shortly after Trump’s 2016 win, when Musk went to Washington D.C. to attend a meeting between the then-president-elect and tech’s greatest names, after which he can be appointed to a number of WH enterprise advisory councils. He would meet with Trump again, and again, and, by 2020, the 2 billionaires have been more and more seeing eye to eye on issues, with Politico noting that each males had “a lot in common.”

Trump additionally had nothing however good issues to say about Musk, famously praising the Tesla CEO’s work on SpaceX by noting “he does good at rockets,” whereas additionally evaluating him to Thomas Edison. According to Trump, Elon is: “one of our very smart people,” “one of our great geniuses.” Actually, he said all of this:

“You know, we have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect all of these people that came up with originally the light bulb and the wheel and all of these things. And he’s one of our very smart people and we want to cherish those people…”

Ahh, sure. Classic 2020 presidential rhetoric. I virtually miss it. But not as a lot as Elon seems to overlook it.

Suffice it to say, Musk and Biden don’t appear to have fairly the identical spark—probably as a result of Biden has some minor affinity for organized labor and doesn’t must spend hours waxing unbelievable about how nice Musk is. Maybe that’s okay.