Elon Musk made it clear there’s nothing romantic about his fondness for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after praising her magnificence throughout a fancy political gala in New York on Monday night time.
Musk gave Meloni a really heat introduction as she was honored by the Atlantic Council assume tank with its International Residents Award earlier this week.
In his remarks, he referred to as the pinnacle of the right-wing populist get together, Fratelli d’Italia, “someone who is even more beautiful on the inside than she is on the outside” and “authentic.”
“That can’t always be said about politicians,” the tech billionaire mentioned of the prime minister, who campaigned as a staunch defender of “God, fatherland, and family.”
Meloni was equally affable on the occasion, praising Musk’s “precious genius” when she took the stage.
When folks on X, Musk’s social media website, began speculating about starry-eyed photographs of the pair, Musk stepped in with a agency denial.
“I was there with my Mom,” he posted to X, previously Twitter. “There is no romantic relationship whatsoever with PM Meloni.”
However, Meloni and Musk do seem to have solid a friendship.
Final 12 months, she invited him to her house in Rome to debate declining delivery charges within the West and the upsides of synthetic intelligence. Musk was a visitor speaker at a political competition organized by Fratelli d’Italia final December.
Whereas Musk swiftly shut down the romance rumors, he has overtly flirted with no less than the politics of European far-right leaders.
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In a single instance earlier this week, the Tesla CEO posted approvingly about an interview of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban vilifying immigrants.
“Do we give Brussels the right to decide who can stay in Hungary or do we reject it and defend our sovereignty?” Orban requested in Hungarian, referring to the house of the European Parliament. “The Hungarian people have made it clear: no way!”
In a reply, Musk merely wrote again, “Yes.”
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