Climate alarmist senator swaps electric car for gas guzzler to protest Elon Musk
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) has swapped his electric Tesla for a gas-powered Chevy Tahoe because Elon Musk is “an a**hole.”
“I’m here in Washington driving to work for the last time in my Tesla,” Kelly said in a Friday video posted to X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “When I bought this thing, I didn’t think it was going to become a political issue. But every time I get in this car in the last 60 days or so, it reminds me of just how much damage Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing to our country.”
“Elon Musk kind of turned out to be an a**hole, and I don’t want to drive a car built and designed by an a**hole,” Kelly concluded.
On Sunday, the senator posted another video to X proudly showing off his new Chevy Tahoe, though he did not address his decision to trade a “climate-friendly” car for one that runs on fossil fuels.
“Here I am with my new ride. Chevy. A good ol’ Chevy Tahoe,” he said. “Here in Washington, DC. Got one of these in Tucson as well. This one was made by union labor, United Auto Workers in Arlington, Texas. Always good to buy union cars. Incredibly reliable.”
The move drew outrage and mockery.
“Climate change was an existential threat for which you had to change your entire life and reinvent society, but not so much of an existential threat that Kelly should have to drive a vehicle invented by a Republican,” commented one user.
Sore from a spat?
Kelly, who campaigned on a promise to “combat climate change,” had praised the Tesla he bought in 2022 for being environmentally friendly. But climate change appears to have dipped on the senator’s priority list after his spat with Musk last week over Ukraine.
“Just left Ukraine,” Kelly tweeted. “What I saw proved to me we can’t give up on the Ukrainian people. Everyone wants this war to end, but any agreement has to protect Ukraine’s security and can’t be a giveaway to Putin. Let me tell you about my trip and why it’s important we stand with Ukraine.”
“Traitor,” Musk replied.
“Traitor? Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do,” Kelly responded.
He dumped his Tesla four days later.
