Elon Musk calls Olaf Scholz a “jester” and jokes about the German Chancellor: “His words ennoble me”

The German Chancellor Olaf Scholzironically this Sunday and declared that it ennobles him that the American technological businessman Elon Musk called him a “buffoon” on his X account, the social network that the tycoon owns.

“It ennobles me,” Scholz quipped in an interview Sunday evening on public broadcaster ARD, in which he was asked about a comment Musk made this week, in which the tycoon wrote in German “Olaf ist ein Narr.” . ‘, in Spanish: “Olaf is a jester.”

Although it is suggested that Musk could play a role in the future US administration of Donald Trump, Scholz said after his tongue-in-cheek comment that the “tech millionaire is not a head of state”even if sometimes we have the impression that technology companies are bigger than states” and, therefore, it is not something to react to, according to Efe.

Christiane Hoffmann, Scholz’s spokesperson, had already spoken in this direction on Friday, emphasizing during a regular press conference that “Internet entrepreneurs are not state organizations” and that is why she had not even “taken note” of Musk’s message in the networks.

In his speech, Hoffmann reaffirmed that the government believes that “it is appropriate to continue to be present in X”a tool that the German executive uses recurrently to report on its activity.