Stop Treating Elon Musk Like Trump

He’s not the President. Stop treating him like one.

Sunday afternoon, Twitter/Tesla/SpaceX/your own head CEO Elon Musk posted a Tweet from Qatar, where he was attending the World Cup Final with Jared Kushner.

Putting aside the fact that I cannot think of a least fun person to watch a World Cup Final with than Jared Kushner, Musk’s subsequent Tweets were as normal and straightforward and dull as you’d expect anyone’s to be from a World Cup Final: There is something depressing about the world’s richest person spending his time at such a glorious event staring at his phone. It didn’t strike me as that big of a deal: Rich guy goes to rich guy event.

But later that day on CNN — before Musk posted his should-I-step-down-at-Twitter poll — the network ran a long segment asking very serious questions about whether it was hypocritical of Musk to post a Tweet revealing his real-time location after spending the last couple of days defending his (very dumb) suspension of several journalists for (supposedly) revealing his “assassination coordinates” by…