Elon Musk slammed JB Pritzker as “crazy” after the Illinois governor known as on “do nothing” Democrats to guide mass protests towards President Trump’s controversial second-term blitz.
The MAGA billionaire tweeted his verdict on Pritzker’s fiery speech in New Hampshire the place the potential 2028 presidential candidate demanded extra aggressive resistance to Trump from fellow Democrats.
“Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now,” Pritzker stated Sunday night time on the New Hampshire Democratic Get together’s McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Membership Dinner. “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.”
“The reckoning is finally here,” he added.
Pritzker stated Democrats have to get again to grassroots organizing and talking out for working-class Individuals taking the brunt of Trump’s erratic first 100 days of deep authorities cuts and harsh tariffs on imported items.
“We’ve been guilty of listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types who would tell us that America’s house is not on fire, even as the flames are licking their faces,” he stated.
“Those same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants, instead of their own lack of guts and gumption,” Pritzker stated.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker meets with farmers in Urbana, Sick. final month. (AP Picture/Nam Y. Huh)
Musk wasted little time hitting again at Pritzker Sunday night time, reposting and commenting on a right-wing account of the speech.
The Tesla and SpaceX mogul is a key ally of Trump, main his slash-and-burn effort to chop authorities spending along with his Division of Authorities Effectivity. Many Democrats see the world’s richest man as a extremely unpopular lightning rod and plan to make him a centerpiece of their fightback towards Trump.
White conceding that Democrats have to tweak their messaging and technique, Pritzker says the occasion has nothing to apologize for when it comes for standing as much as Trump’s mercurial insurance policies.
“Our values are exactly where they should be,” Pritzker stated. “We will never join so many Republicans in a special place in hell reserved for quislings and cowards.”
Pritzker, a billionaire inheritor to the Hyatt lodge fortune, is serving his second time period as fashionable Illinois governor and is mulling operating for a 3rd time period in 2026.
Pritzker invoked his Jewish religion to criticize Trump’s efforts to deport overseas college students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and punish universities that resist harsh crackdowns on pupil protests.
“Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors,” Pritzker stated.
The speech is the newest in a string of high-profile Pritzker appearances in conventional early voting states, though it’s not clear if New Hampshire will ever regain its first-in-the-nation standing within the Democratic main race.
Pritzker is searching for to burnish his picture as a profitable bare-knuckled brawler from the Midwest as he stakes a declare on the Democratic shortlist for the 2028 nomination.
Some are even floating firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) as a progressive possibility after she joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on a profitable rally tour of western purple states.
