{"id":19261,"date":"2026-07-27T22:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=19261"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:29:29","slug":"elon-musk-spars-with-jose-andres-for-calling-him-a-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=19261","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Spars With Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s For Calling Him a &#8216;Tyrant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5745857\" src=\"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-2.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk\" width=\"1090\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-2.jpg 1090w, https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-2-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-2-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1090px) 100vw, 1090px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> sparred with Spanish Chef <strong>Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s<\/strong> of the World Central Kitchen on Monday over a recent interview that had Musk looking less than stellar.<\/p>\n<p>It started when Musk responded to a post by <strong>Rael Braverman<\/strong>, husband of former U.K. Home Secretary <strong>Suella Braverman<\/strong>, who\u2019s a member of the right-wing party, Reform UK.<\/p>\n<p>Braverman wrote, \u201cThis woman, Editor-In-Chief at the Economist, is excruciatingly painful to listen to. It\u2019s people like her that are allowing the West to be destroyed. Luxury belief brigade in all its glory.\u201d Braverman included a CNBC <em>Squawk Box<\/em> clip of journalist <strong>Zanny Minton Beddoes<\/strong> talking about last week\u2019s sit-down interview with Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/nonsense-elon-musk-lashes-out-in-fiery-interview-after-hes-accused-of-supporting-the-far-right\/\">where Beddoes told Musk<\/a>, \u201cYou support not just the populist right, but the far right \u2014 in fact, very fringe parties in some countries,\u201d prompting Musk to answer, \u201cNo, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to Braverman\u2019s post, \u201cShe is a traitor to the West, plain and simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where the chef got involved.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s wrote, \u201cElon drink a glass of water before you tweet\u2026you may build rockets and satellites and cars and anything else you want\u2026and we thank you! but you can not call a great journalist that actually ask you good questions and <em>[sic]<\/em> enemy to humanity! You sound and act like a tyrant\u2026.change!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk replied to the chef, \u201cYou\u2019re an asshole.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"17c929b369beefee3c536eaf7fbfe310\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This woman, Editor-In-Chief at the Economist , is excruciatingly painful to listen to. It\u2019s people like her that are allowing the West to be destroyed. <\/p>\n<p>Luxury belief brigade in all its glory. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tyb5zK3x0C\">https:\/\/t.co\/tyb5zK3x0C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rael Braverman (@raelbrav) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/raelbrav\/status\/2081080767736607045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Social media exploded with posts defending Chef Andr\u00e9s, with some calling him a hero for feeding the disenfranchised all around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Musk was butthurt over the Beddoes interview where his message was definitively anti-Muslim, and he claimed Europe was rife for a \u201creckoning\u201d over immigration.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLondon is a much safer city than any city in the United States,\u201d Beddoes said. \u201cYou have painted \u2014 and because you have so many followers, so many Americans believe it \u2014 a kind of view that Europe and the UK are kind of, you know, \u2018overrun with terrifying Muslim immigrants, there\u2019s rape on every corner, there\u2019s a sort of civilizational destruction.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-2\">\u201cI haven\u2019t said any of those things,\u201d Musk shot back. \u201cIf you have a large and growing, rapidly growing, group of people whose beliefs are antithetical to Western beliefs, at some point\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/business\/companies-markets\/article\/elon-musk-uk-reckoning-coming-but-i-havent-visited-for-years-civil-war-vg2s5d8gh\">there will be a reckoning.<\/a>\u00a0They will try to implement their views, and those who oppose it will oppose it. 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It started when Musk responded to a post by Rael Braverman, husband of former U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who\u2019s a member of the right-wing party, Reform UK. 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