Did Elon Musk say that Ukraine is to blame for universal hatred for him?

In March 2025, a screenshot of the news program was dispersed on the Web, where the billionaire was attributed to the following statement: "This is Ukraine to blame that everyone hate me." We decided to check if he said something like that.

The screenshot of the alleged interview with the mask and its resonant statement were actively discussed by users of social networks ("VKontakte" X, Facebook, Threads) And Platform blog. The popular Telegram channels wrote about this: "The ax live"(919,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Insider UA"(456 000),"KB"(234,000),"Militarist"(147 000),"Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(125,000) and others. Some authors later specified that Musk did not say like that, and the media simply" inflated a loud title. "

At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ilon Musk Provided The Ukrainian military is the thousands of Starlink terminals to ensure satellite communications in conditions of hostilities. The billionaire said that Tesla spent about $ 80 million on this support. Offered Pentagon take these costs for itself, saying that the company no longer has the opportunity to provide terminals at its own expense. Around the same time Mask He performed On Twitter (now - X) with the own plan of the peaceful settlement of the conflict. According to this plan, Crimea was supposed to remain Russian, and Ukraine should take on the obligations to maintain neutrality. In September 2023, the network spread newsthat earlier Musk allegedly ordered a part of Starlink's satellites, thereby torn the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the ships of the Russian Navy in Crimea. However, the billionaire himself assertedthat in the area of ​​the annexed peninsula, the satellites did not work initially. In February 2024, a billionaire declaredthat does not believe in the victory of Ukraine and that Putin cannot lose. A year later Musk He called hold elections in Ukraine, because, in his opinion, citizens of the country actually despise Vladimir Zelensky and would like to replace him as president. 

The statements of a businessman on the topic of Ukraine often caused a sharply negative reaction among many Internet users, including under the posts of a mask in his social network X. Therefore, it is easy to assume that the billionaire could have the impression that many did not like him because of his position in the war in Ukraine. However, on his own page In the X, which he leads very actively, Musk did not announce such an accusation. 

Judging by the logo at the spread screenshot, Musk, presumably, made his Fox News television channel in the author program Sean Hanniti. The image began to spread on March 13, but the TV presenter did not release an interview with a businessman on this day or over the previous week. The results of the reverse search by the picture are really brought to the Fox News website, where February 21, 2025 was published article Under the heading “Reducing financing of the National Institute of Health: a federal judge extends a prohibitive court that blocks the actions of the Trump administration”. The article contains an excerpt from the news release of Fox News, on the video screensaver - the same viral frame with a mask. Although the facial expressions on the face of the billionaire and the time in the lower left corner coincide, the title in the original is completely different: “Musk: America will go bankrupt if we do not solve the issue with a shortage of [budget]”. 

The fragment used in the news is cut out of interviewwho Hanniti took Donald Trump from Mask and US President and which was aired on February 18. During the release on the screen, a title from a viral screenshot never appears. Moreover, in an interview at all Not mentioned Ukraine and the alleged universal hatred of the mask. The issues discussed by the US President and his closest ally are focused around the tough budget savings they promote. 

The earliest publication of the image that “verified” was found was Made User @bure_Vest on social network X March 13 at 10:03 Moscow time. The post scored more than a thousand likes and about a hundred reposts, and, judging by the comments to them, many users took a screenshot for a clean coin, not paying attention to description The account, where, among other things, it is indicated: "Anonymous satirical and parody account from the country of NATO."

Thus, Musk did not declare that everyone hate him through the fault of Ukraine. Moreover, the updates added by the authors of some publications that were analyzed that Fox News has fragmented the words of the mask also do not correspond to reality. There was no such heading on the air of the channel at all, and the image used as evidence was edited and first published in the satirical blog on the social network X. 

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