Elon Musk’s message to advertisers fleeing X: ‘Go f**k yourself’ – as he admits responding to anti-Semitic posts on

It’s a good thing Elon Musk can afford to be canceled, because tonight he told his advertisers, “Go f*** own.”

Musk appeared at The New York Times’ DealBook summit and was pressed by host Andrew Ross Sorkin on his November 15 tweet and the resulting fallout.

Companies like Apple, Paramount, Airbnb and Uber pulled their advertising from X — a move that could cost the company $75 million, according to internal X documents.

He said the advertising boycott “could kill the company.”

And he told them to “go fuck yourselves.”

He added: ‘That’s how I feel, don’t advertise. What this advertising boycott will do is make the company go under. And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company.”

When asked about his position, Musk said he had “no problem being hated.”

He added: “I essentially handed a loaded gun to the people who hate me.”

Musk complained that the media ignored his attempts to clarify his post, but insisted on his visit to Israel this week. Exploring the areas devastated by the October 7 attack and meeting with the country’s leaders – was not an ‘apology tour’.

The South African-born billionaire can be seen in conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday

Musk is seen on Monday with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, visiting Kibbutz Kfar Aza – one of the locations attacked by Hamas on October 7.

He said his critics should focus on his work.

“We make the best cars,” he said. “Whether you hate me, like me or are indifferent, do you want the best car or not the best car?”

He also apologized for his apparent support of white nationalists.

Musk, who has been strongly criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and the Israeli Foreign Ministry for his past comments, responded on November 15 to a man who posted a screed on Combat Anti-Semitism.

The video shows a father talking to his son about the online hate the son has expressed and calling him out for his rhetoric.

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“I’m not at all interested in saying even the slightest bit about the fact that the Western Jewish population is coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities who support the flooding of their land don’t particularly like them.

“You want the truth told to your face, there it is.”

Musk, who has 163 million followers, responded: “You said the actual truth.”

On Wednesday, Musk said, “In retrospect, I shouldn’t have responded to that specific message.”

But he was defiant in the face of the advertising boycott, accusing the companies of blackmail and telling them – to the shock of the public: “They can screw themselves up.”

Musk attempted to clarify his November 15 tweet on November 19

He again tried to explain the tweet and criticized groups such as the Anti-Defamation League that have condemned him.

“What I said was that it is unwise to support groups that want your destruction,” he said.

Musk has a long history of playing with dog-whistle rhetoric about Jewish people, especially George Soros, who angered him in May by selling his Tesla shares.

He has also angered people with his response to the war between Israel and Hamas.

In the days following the October 7 Hamas terror attack, Musk was forced to delete a tweet that recommended an anti-Semitic account and a promoter of debunked videos as reliable sources of information about the attack on Israel.

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Followers were quick to point out that @WarMonitors has repeatedly used “Jew” as a swear word on the platform and told New York supermarket boss Avi Kaner to “mind your own business, Jew.”

“The man Musk recommended for information about the escalation between Israel and Hamas is an anti-Semitic story with a history of spreading misinformation,” wrote Sam Sokol of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.