{"id":44590,"date":"2024-08-19T20:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T20:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/elon-musk-denies-giving-cybertruck-to-chechen-leader"},"modified":"2024-08-19T20:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T20:49:06","slug":"elon-musk-denies-giving-cybertruck-to-chechen-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/elon-musk-denies-giving-cybertruck-to-chechen-leader","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk denies giving Cybertruck to Chechen leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>US business mogul Elon Musk on Monday denied that he had given the head of Russia&#8217;s Chechnya region a battery electric pickup built by Telsa, his car company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?\u201d Musk wrote on his social media platform, X, using a slur for mentally disabled people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet another example of how much the legacy media lies,\u201d Musk added, although the roots of the story were in Telegram, a messaging app.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Kadyrov shared a video on Telegram showing himself driving a Tesla equipped with what appeared to be a gun turret, expressing his gratitude to Musk for providing the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elon, thank you! Come to (the Chechen capital) Grozny, I will accept you as my dearest guest! I don&#8217;t think our Russian Foreign Ministry will be against such a trip,&#8221; Kadyrov wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>The message was interpreted by some as if Musk gave Kadyrov the vehicle, although it turns out that Kadyrov simply meant that it was captured during clashes with Ukrainian troops in the ongoing war<\/p>\n<p>Kadyrov praised the Cybertruck, calling it a &#8220;real beast&#8221; and a &#8220;really comfortable car&#8221; that will be soon used by Russian forces on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I express my sincere gratitude to Elon Musk! This is, of course, the strongest genius of our time and a specialist&#8230;. I literally fell in love with this car,&#8221; Kadyrov wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kadyrov is well known for his love of pranks and flair for the dramatic, frequently hosting prize giveaways on his Telegram page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Mauritius Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. US business mogul Elon Musk on Monday denied that he had given the head of Russia&#8217;s Chechnya region a battery electric pickup built by Telsa, his car company. \u201cAre you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?\u201d Musk wrote on his social media platform, X, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[189,241,4033,4032],"class_list":["post-44590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-elon-musk","tag-mauritius","tag-ramzan-kadyrov","tag-tesla-cybertruck"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elon Musk denies giving Cybertruck to Chechen leader - 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