After praising billionaire Tesla founder Greta Thunberg, Elon Musk on Saturday poked fun at inflammatory influencer and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate.
“Sometimes it’s better to make pizza at home,” said the Twitter boss He tweeted on New Year’s Eve.
The dig led to the theory that Tate, 36, was discovered after publishing an article he was hiding in Romania. Video pizza box in hand from the famous Jerry’s Pizza chain in the country.
Tate tried to use the box as a springboard to hit back at the 19-year-old eco-warrior, who he had virally debated on Twitter the day before.
In the clip, the self-proclaimed misogynist tells an off-screen person to make sure they don’t recycle the boxes, as she tells Thunberg she’s a “slave to the matrix.”
Tate was arrested Thursday shortly after the video was released with accusations of kidnapping and rape. It is alleged that he and his brother formed an organized crime group that “sexually exploited” women and forced them to make pornographic films.
Musk’s New Year’s Eve tweet was the third dunk about Tate since his arrest overseas.
On Friday, Musk, 51, tweeted that Thunberg was “credible” for taking on the internet provocateur.
“The amount of brand awareness Greta has achieved in just a few years is amazing. I think she’s very beautiful.” said musk in response to Swedish activist satirical site Babylon Bee’s post of a Thunberg-themed thermostat that “grows at you when you turn up the heat.”
Musk is the founder of electric car maker Tesla.
musk too tweeted a photo Refers to Tate’s doomed video from The Matrix: “What if I told you the only way to escape the Matrix is to unlearn everything you’ve been taught and rebuild your entire belief system based on critical thinking and analysis.”
Musk dismissed rumors that he and Tate were friends on Friday, insisting the two had never met.
Musk also said that he never went anywhere Halloween celebration in Romania.
