BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk is holding strong to his curse-laden comments following advertisement boycotts.

After Musk responded to an X post that perpetuated antisemitic ideology, he faced massive backlash from multiple companies.

Elon Musk has come under fire for perpetuating antisemitic ideology with an X reply he posted, triggering a slew of companies to boycott the social media siteCredit: Getty

On Thursday, he commented on a Tesla promotion, seemingly doubling down on profane comments he made at those companies that were boycotting XCredit: Not known, clear with picture desk

Apple, IBM, and Disney completely pulled their ads from the social media platform in protest of the X CEO’s comment.

And Airbnb, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Netflix decided to limit or pause advertising.

When asked about the advertiser’s boycotting his social media platform, Musk quickly lashed out.

“I hope they stop. Don’t advertise,” Musk told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin.

“If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f**k yourself. Go f**k yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”

Despite the angered reaction, Musk did recognize the impact an advertising boycott would bring.

“What this advertising boycott is gonna do is it’s gonna kill the company,” he said.

“That is what everybody on Earth will know.

“We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”

With the boycotts, the platform stands to lose $75 million by the end of this year, according to The New York Times.

Musk has since apologized for his original antisemitic post, giving an interview at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday night.

But he continued to double down on his irate comments towards the boycotting companies.

On Thursday, he replied to an X post highlighting the bulletproof capabilities of the new Tesla Cybertruck.

“Advertise this mf lmao,” wrote the CEO.

The post suggests that Musk has shoved his new vehicle release and potentially coming success into the faces of those who called for the boycotts and the companies that boycotted.

THE POST

Musk had replied to a post that claimed Jewish communities have been “pushing hatred” against white people.

The CEO agreed with this post in a reply, saying: “You have said the actual truth.”

He continued by writing that “the [Anti-Defamation League] unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.

“This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat. It is not right and needs to stop.”

THE APOLOGY

On Wednesday night, he said he was “sorry” for handing “a loaded gun” to those who hold antisemitic ideologies.

He described it as the “worst” tweet he has made.

“I mean, look, I’m sorry for that … post,” he said.

“It was foolish of me. Of the 30,000, it might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done.

“And I’ve tried my best to clarify six ways from Sunday, but you know at least I think it’ll be obvious that, in fact, far from being antisemitic, I’m, in fact, philosemitic.”

Musk expressed that he wished he had never responded to the X post.

“Essentially, I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me, and arguably to those are antisemitic, and for that, I’m quite sorry. That was not my intention,” Musk said.

The Tesla CEO insisted that despite his recent trip to Israel, he was not on “an apology tour” and does not mind being the object of contempt.