South Africans are having a field day amid Elon Musk’s dramatic fallout with US President Donald Trump. Some are even praising President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “strong muti” for the showdown that is unfolding in the White House and on the X platform.
The SA leader visited the Oval Office last month for a bilateral meeting with Trump to discuss investments and do damage control on diplomatic relations. Elon – who was born in Pretoria and was Trump’s right-hand man at the time – was also present during the tense talks.
RAMAPHOSA’S ‘STRONG MUTI’ BECOMES TRENDING TOPIC
On the X platform, President Cyril Ramaphosa unknowingly trended amid the fallout between Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and President Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful man.
Ramphosa later conceded to being “ambushed” as Trump berated him for pushing a “white genocide” and “confiscating land” from white farmers.
However, on X, South Africans are sharing their wild opinions that Ramaphosa’s “witchcraft” in the White House is behind the showdown between the two influential, wealthy men.
Others jokingly compared him to PSL club Orlando Pirates’ resident sangoma, who is rumoured to use muti before big matches.
ELON MUSK VS DONALD TRUMP: WHAT WENT WRONG?
From being allies in office and business to a public and messy break-up of their bromance – what went wrong between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump
Barely a week after Elon left his official post as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the billionaire businessman found himself on the wrong side of the president.
In a back-and-forth, Trump admonished the world’s richest man for criticising his tax legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill.
He later threatened to cut Elon’s government contracts and insinuated that “nobody wanted” his Tesla cars. Trump accused his former right-hand man of “just going CRAZY”!
Elon Musk, who largely funded Trump’s presidential campaign, called out his “ungrateful” and “lying” former boss.
He shadily posted on his X account: “Trump has 3.5 years left as President. But I will be around for 40+ years”.
But one of the biggest bombshells was his revelation that President Trump is named in the Epstein files, relating to government intelligence about convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Elon later posted on X that his company SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft, which directly aids NAS, the US civil space programme.
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