Elon Musk drops out of government forum, replaced by John Kerry
Christopher Hutton
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Elon Musk was taken off the schedule to speak at a high-profile government forum on Thursday and replaced with climate envoy John Kerry.
Musk was scheduled to speak at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on Thursday on artificial intelligence alongside Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The schedule was suddenly changed the day of, with Musk being replaced by Kerry.
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“Elon Musk had a schedule change that prevented him from joining the APEC CEO Summit 2023,” the summit said in a statement sent to the Washington Examiner. “We’re thankful for his offer to join the session remotely, however it was agreed among all speakers that participation would be in person. We look forward to Elon joining us at a future APEC CEO Summit.”
Musk raised controversy Wednesday night with posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, in which he concurred with claims that Jews “push hatred” against white people.
Musk later clarified, alleging that he doesn’t believe “all Jewish communities” hate white people but that the pro-Jewish 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.”
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“I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind,” he wrote. “I’m sick of it. Stop now.”
APEC was also the setting for President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping to meet in California, where the pair discussed various foreign matters and Biden defended his description of Xi as a “dictator.”