Elon Musk on Saturday hit back at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for celebrating Tesla’s stock dip, calling the former vice-presidential nominee a “huge jerk.”

“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who’s a huge jerk, running around on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price had gone in half, and he was overjoyed,” Musk said during a Fox News appearance.

“What an evil thing to do — what a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?” Musk went on. “Does that sound like a good person to you? I don’t think so.”

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