Newsom to Musk after HQ change announcement: ‘You bent the knee’

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media to criticize Elon Musk’s decision to move his aerospace company, SpaceX, and his social media company, X, out of the state after Newsom signed a related law to trans children.

“You bent the knee,” Newsom posted on X, along with a screenshot of a 2022 post from former President Trump criticizing the billionaire.

Earlier Tuesday, Musk said Newsom’s signing of a bill prohibiting school districts from requiring parents to be notified if their children decide to change their gender identity was “the final straw.”

“Because of this law and many others that preceded it, attacking families and businesses alike, SpaceX will now move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas,” Musk wrote on X.

The Tesla CEO said he made it clear to Newsom “about a year ago that laws of this nature” would force people to leave California. He also added that X would move its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, Texas.

In his post, which Newsom’s office confirmed was a response to Musk’s announcement, he included Trump’s post about the tech billionaire, where the former president suggested he was the reason for Musk’s success.

“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, be they electric cars that don’t run long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rockets to nowhere, without which he would be useless, and I telling how he was a big Trump fan and a Republican, I could have said, ‘get on your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it,” Trump said.

Musk recently formally endorsed Trump following Saturday’s assassination attempt and recently donated to the America PAC. As the world’s richest person, Musk said he plans to give the former president about $45 million a month.

The Hill reached out to X for comment on the governor’s post.

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