Larry David attends a game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the Western Conference Playoffs at Crypto.com Arena on April 28, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.
Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images“Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator Larry David is, like many other people, apparently not a fan of Elon Musk. A new book claims he made that abundantly clear when he got stuck at the same dinner table as Musk at a wedding in France last year.
In May 2022, David and Musk attended the wedding of Hollywood bigwig Ari Emanuel, who’s the CEO of the Endeavor entertainment company and the brother of Rahm Emanuel, the current U.S. ambassador to Japan and former (loathed) mayor of Chicago. Ari Emanuel, now 62, hosted his nuptials with fashion designer Sarah Staudinger, 34, at a venue in St-Tropez, France, which is the sort of thing you can do when you’re obscenely wealthy.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
Reportedly “baffled and annoyed,” Musk responded, “No, no, I’m anti-kid murder,” which compelled David to retort, “Then how could you vote Republican?”
David seemed to be referencing Musk’s then-recent public flirtation with the GOP, and the lack of action from Republican lawmakers in the days following the mass shooting. On May 18, 2022, Musk wrote that he had voted for Democrats in the past but would no longer do so because “they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.”
After the Uvalde shooting, most Republican lawmakers coalesced around the GOP’s long-held position that gun restrictions are not necessary and make no difference. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., for instance, blamed the shooting on “wokeness” and “indoctrinating our children with things like [critical race theory],” concluding that “a simple new gun law … it’s not gonna solve it.” Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said gun restrictions are “not a real solution”; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, more or less said the same.
In late June 2022, Congress managed to pass the first semi-substantive gun restrictions law in decades, though the vast majority of Republicans voted against the measure, even though it had already been watered down from its peak.
Advertisement
Article continues below this ad
For his part, David told Isaacson that he did indeed scold Musk at the wedding. “His tweets about voting Republican because Democrats were the party of division and hate were sticking in my craw. Even if Uvalde never happened, I probably would have brought it up, because I was angry and offended,” he said, according to Isaacson’s book.