Marko Elez JD Vance Elon Musk: Donald Trump reacts to ‘India-hater’ Marko Elez’s exit from DOGE, says ‘whatever JD Vance…’
President Donald Trump was asked about the controversial exit of Marko Elez from Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency over his past social media posts in one of which he called himself ‘racist’ and also called for normalizing India hate. Trump said he was not aware of it but if Vice President JD Vance is in favor of rehiring the person, he is with the VP.
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“Well I don’t know about that particular thing but if the Vice President said so..did you say that? (turning to JD), I’m with the VP,” Trump said.
Who is Marko Elez? What is the controversy?
Marko Elez is a 25-year-old lieutenant of Elon Musk who apparently resigned from DOGE, the Wall Street Journal reported. WSJ reported that Elez made some problematic posts on social media through a pseudonym account which was closed in December probably when he started to work for DOGE but many of those White supremacist posts were archived. WSJ said when they contacted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for a comment on Elez’s past posts, Leavitt said Elez resigned from DOGE.
His past posts included: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”; “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. Normalize Indian hate” etc.
Elon Musk ran a poll on X on whether to rehire him and the maximum votes were in favor of rehiring him. Even JD Vance said Elez should not be victimized for his past social media activities which became another major controversy — as Vance is married to Indian-origin Usha Vance and he did not call out the India hate.
JD Vance vs Ro Khanna over India-hate
JD Vance said he “obviously” disagrees with some of Elez’s posts but he also thinks that past social media activity should not ruin Elez’s life. Indian-origin Democrat leader Ro Khanna took offence to Vance’s stand and asked him whether Vance would seek an apology from Elez for his “normalize Indian hate” statement. “Just asking for the sake of both of our kids,” Ro Khanna wrote.
“For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up,” JD Vance said. “Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don’t threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children.”
Did Ro Khanna blackmail JD Vance?
JD Vance called Ro Khanna’s statement emotional blackmail. “I don’t worry about my kids making mistakes, or developing views they later regret. I don’t even worry that much about trolls on the internet. You know what I do worry about, Ro? That they’ll grow up to be a US Congressmen who engages in emotional blackmail over a kid’s social media posts. You disgust me,” Vance said.
