Elon Musk gloats after Trump defeats Harris: ‘Game, set and match’

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Elon Musk was in full boast mode after Donald Trump triumphed over Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election.

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After warning Americans that electing Harris would be a disaster for the country, Musk, who is the richest person in the world with a net worth of over $263 billion, took to X to gloat after voters returned Trump to the White House.

“America is a nation of builders. Soon, you will be free to build,” he wrote in a message that he pinned at the top of his X profile.

But his social media feed was filled with memes and emojis, along with digs at Harris’ supporters and his calls for his 203 million followers on X to question the mainstream media.

“The people of America gave @realDonaldTrump a crystal clear mandate for change tonight,” he cheered in another message.

Musk also posted a meme of himself in the Oval Office with the caption: “Let that sink in.”

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The picture was a callback to a photo he shared when he acquired Twitter (which he rebranded as X) and entered the headquarters of the California-based company clutching the bathroom fixture in 2022.

Musk also re-shared a post in which he appeared with Trump and UFC boss Dana White that heralded him as “CTO of the USA” and posted his own version of the image with the caption: “The future is gonna be so (fire emoji).”

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As Harris postponed her concession speech and refused to address supporters at Howard University, Musk gleefully tweeted: “Game, set and match.”

Musk took swipes at the mainstream media, telling his followers: “You are the media now.” He also reposted billionaire Bill Ackman’s message that Harris supporters should “question their sources of truth.”

“The MSM excerpted, clipped and cut to defame @realDonaldTrump while claiming that @JoeBiden was fit as a fiddle. Then when Biden’s polls collapsed, @KamalaHarris was anointed the candidate and her hagiography was written with glowing acclaim from the press. But this could not hold as she ducked the media and held fast to the teleprompter,” Ackman wrote in part.

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“Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well and the public demanded to learn more so @KamalaHarris had to risk more unscripted media,” he continued.

Ackman went on to hit out at claims that CBS edited Harris’ “word salad” response to a question about the conflict in the Middle East during an interview with 60 Minutes last month and asserted that when “half of America woke up” podcasters like Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan “came to the rescue.”

“When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information,” Ackman added.

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In a conversation with Rogan on his Joe Rogan Experience podcast the day before the election, Musk warned that “this is the last election if Trump doesn’t win … this is the last chance.”

Musk also raised questions about Harris’ celebrity supporters, including Jennifer Lopez.

“It’s amazing how many people on the Diddy party list are supporting Kamala. Publicly, openly, all-in,” Rogan said, referring to the rap mogul who is facing charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.

“J.Lo was like his ex-girlfriend and now all of a sudden she’s warning people against Trump?” Musk said. “How many people did she warn against Diddy? Oh, Zero? Maybe we shouldn’t trust her opinion.”

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During an appearance at Trump’s victory party, White thanked Rogan for publicly endorsing the Republican nominee and called the former president’s return to power “karma.”

“Nobody deserves this more than him, and nobody deserves this more than his family does. This is what happens when the machine comes after you,” White told the crowd before Trump addressed his supporters.

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“This is karma, ladies and gentlemen. He deserves this. They deserve it as a family,” White said. “I’m in the tough guy business, and this man is the toughest, most resilient human being that I’ve ever met in my life.”

Meanwhile, Rogan’s response to Trump’s triumph is going viral.

The MMA commentator and podcaster — who boasts 17.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 15.7 million on Spotify — shared a 19-second clip of Trump and his family taking to the stage in Florida after his re-election was confirmed on Fox News.

As gales of laughter could be heard off-screen, Rogan proclaimed: “Holy s***!” His post, which he tagged, “WHOLE. LEE. S***,” has been viewed over 14 million times on X and shared by more than 41,000 accounts. On Instagram, it has been liked by 1.5 million users.

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The day before Americans headed to the polls, Rogan recorded a podcast with Musk and posted a note to X that read: “The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be f***ed. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump.”

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