Bill Gates Accuses Elon Musk of 'Killing' Children

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/08/bill-gates-accuses-elon-musk-of-killing-children/

Bill Gates Accuses Elon Musk of ‘Killing’ Children
May 8, 2025 at 8:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates ratcheted up his feud with Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through what he said were misguided cuts to U.S. development assistance, the Financial Times reports.

Said Gates: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

[milestogo]

1. Speaking truth to money.

Go, Bill!

[yardwork]

2. Good for Bill Gates.

[Johonny]

3. Truth

[SheltieLover]

4. Kick

[newdeal2]

5. This will leave a mark

If he were a mature adult, he would actually consider what Gates is saying and course correct. Instead, he will Tweet some insults and look for revenge.

[spanone]

6. K&R

[Swede]

7. This is the truth.

I google searched I story I remembered, there were too many responses, so I posted the results. A vitamin rich peanut butter saved the lives of starving children. That's done now, thanks to Musk.

https://www.google.com/search?q=vitamin+peanut+butter+saves+starving+children&oq=vitamin+peanut+butter+saves+starving+children&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjEzNTgxajFqMTWoAgywAgHxBdIW5lfIXyQl&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[jmbar2]

8. Kudos to Bill Gates for speaking up, and stepping up

[johnnyfins]

9. How long before Elon trots out some

Rightwing conspiracy theory about Bill Gates. Maybe he is combing through old Alex Jones shows...

[mdbl]

54. They haven't finished the microchip vaccination conspiracy yet have they?

That was blaming Gates lol

[MorbidButterflyTat]

57. Who cares?

[William Seger]

10. But, Musk is proud of having no empathy -- says it's destroying civilization

[Attilatheblond]

34. Musk wants everybody to be as cold as he is

Which makes me wonder if, deep down, he knows there is something wrong with him. But he's not man enough, not human enough, to face his deficits and work on them. He can't evolve, so he wants everyone else to be like him, or die.

[Wonder Why]

11. Bill, you are just letting them die, yourself. You plan to give away your $200B by 2045 but your ex

has been doing it for years. Can't you live on just a measly $1B and give it away now instead of dolling it out over time?

In 10 years, those kids will no longer be kids, already beyond hope; in 20 will be grown up and too poor to help their own kids.

[milestogo]

13. Where do you think his ex got her money?

[Wonder Why]

19. And, if they hadn't divorced, all that money she gave away, he'd still have control of so he'd been

able to give even more away by 2045. Is that what you're saying?

Sorry, but I maintain Gates has done too little with all he has. No, he is not a Muskrat by any stretch of the imagination but he's no nice guy IMHO. Another "turn of the 19th to 20th Century" baron who gives away his vast fortune far later than he should have.

[hlthe2b]

20. Absolutely wrong--quite possibly libelously so.

I dont' defend Bill Gate's personal life, but I won't be silent about his global health initiatives--one which I personally have worked on.

Wonder Why, you are WRONG.

[Wonder Why]

45. Libelous? Gimme a break. Let's just agree to disagree.

[hlthe2b]

46. False accusations in print are just that.

--Word to the wise...

[DENVERPOPS]

55. LOL

If that were true, Trump, for example, would have spent the past two decades in prison.......along with everyone on Fox New's website.

[hlthe2b]

56. DENVERPOPS.. we owe it to EarlG not to put DU in the crosshairs as has happened in the past...

Perhaps before your time.

If you have no lawyers in your life, maybe you don't take it seriously, but while you can say "you think... " about just about anything and anyone, making false claims, assertions, accusations, can and DOES get you litigation. But, to point to TSF and the RW doing that and not worrying about it, really? Anyone they don't like will be smeared with blatant lies and accusations in a never-ending tirade. Is that what we do? Really? And about Bill Gates' philanthropy? Damn... As I said, he's got some personal issues that are deserving of a call-out, but I'm not about to defend someone misrepresenting (intentionally, apparently-- despite multiple corrections) his support of global health and climate change initiatives dating decades--when few else were.

So, let's be respectful of the owners and not justify our fellow DUers doing so--especially when it is so damned provably WRONG, okay?

[milestogo]

32. The "turn of the 19th to 20th Century" baron was born in 1955

and made his fortune in the latter half of the twentieth century.
His credentials as a philanthropist, especially for climate change and health in third world countries, are exceptional.

[Wonder Why]

47. I didn't say he was born at the turn of the century. I was saying that, like them, he waited to give

away his big fortune far too late in life. My opinion. And you disagree. That's nice. Shows we can still differ in opinion and not fight over it.

[pinkstarburst]

43. Gates has done so much for the poorest people

of the world, and has been for years. Geez, the dude has been giving away his fortune for years, has just pledged to give away ALL his fortune, and this still isn't enough for you?

[MorbidButterflyTat]

58. No kidding

Every good news thread will inevitably get shit on.

[hlthe2b]

18. OMG.. How wrong YOU are. His Gates Foundation has been instrumental in making strides throughout

the world for decades--before they were ever divorced. You need to research the work being done--including funding clinical trials on the (mosquito-borne) dengue vaccine (the four serotypes which can cause a fatal hemorrhagic syndrome especially in children) and that is but one example.

How wrong you are. I do love Melinda and she deserves lauding, but, damn...

[JI7]

21. Are you thinking of Bezos ex wife ? Because Gates is more recently divorced

and he has been giving for years along with his now ex wife.

[multigraincracker]

42. Or, that money can more than double

over that time and he can save twice many.

[Wonder Why]

48. Based on that argument, he can have his foundation hold on to it for 100 years before

passing out the money and think how many more they can save!

The poor and downtrodden need money now. If some can be helped enough NOW, their kids will not be the ones who need saving in 20 years.

We disagree and I'm fine with that. Have a nice day.

[multigraincracker]

49. I'm retired and drawing down my savings.

Taking out 15% a year. Figure I have 8 to 10 years left to live.

[Wonder Why]

59. That's two of us that don't have $200B.

But I have to think of my wife, too. I tried to ignore her but even after 53 years, she has a hell of a wallop!

[Botany]

12. If Bill Gates had wanted to he could very well be richer than Musk but instead has worked to give ..

…. away his money and future income on helping people.

Musk’s killing of USAID is in a large part because it helps black people in Africa and he grew up
in apartheid S. Africa and sees them as the enemy.

[Martin68]

14. Good for Gates. Whatever harm Gates may have done in his lifetime, he has tried t9o redeem himself by spending

billions on worthwhile charitable projects. Not the fake charities that Trump and his ilk set up for slush fund money.,

[hlthe2b]

16. I hadn't read your post when I made my own. We are of one mind on this..

[hlthe2b]

15. Bill Gates has been systematically making up for any wrongs he committed and I'm pleased to say...

he seems to be succeeding mightily (obviously he won't think I am the one to judge that, but still... )

I am really glad to see him call out Musk. In Gate's accusation, he is absolutely right.

[usonian]

31. Agree, but I think he's more attacking symptoms than the disease.

The disease is the insane concentration of wealth he participated in so viciously, and the heartless greed of the oligarchs.

Better late than never? Musk bought himself a presidency.

Gates didn't counter. Imagine if he "fixed" those voting machines instead of Elon.



He has the platform.

Windows boot message: "We have detected a MAGA hat and are issuing a HCF (1) instruction to the CPU."

(1) Halt and Catch Fire

But it's good to see oligarchs fighting each other rather than the rest of us.

mixed feelings here

[Solly Mack]

17. He's right. Musk is killing children - adults too.

He's doing it with Trump's blessing. Let's not let Trump off the hook.

[BComplex]

30. It's not just trump and musk; it is ALL republicans who have voted with them, or FOR them. It's republicans.

They are cold, uncaring, greedy sonsofrepublicanbitches.

[Solly Mack]

52. Yes, true. All of them.

[Attilatheblond]

39. And impoverished, hungry kids Musk doesn't kill, will grow to hate the US,

The survivors of the extreme poverty will be a pool of people who produce a few terrorists, and the wealthy nations will have it coming.

[Solly Mack]

51. That does happen.

[CBHagman]

22. The accusation is just. However, I wish the would not frame it is a "feud."

Bill Gates says what many of us say: Elon Musk, who gloated about feeding USAID into the wood chipper (his phrasing, not mine), is gleefully causing deaths of many of the world's most vulnerable people, including children.

Elon Musk also owes much of his wealth to the taxpayers! And he then bought access to power, which he is now using to harm millions or perhaps billions of people.

[calimary]

23. Sounds like a new "clash of the titans".

[Lulu KC]

24. Good for you, Bill

Uganda, 1m people not receiving food aid because of us. Just from today's headlines. Every day a new headline of death and destruction. Makes me want to go soak my head.

[Attilatheblond]

25. Maybe Elon can stop picking on ex-wives of other billionaires, man up, deal with his well heeled male peers instead

One can hardly wait for round Two.

[Linda ladeewolf]

26. They need

To bring up the air pollution around his AI data center. For over a year now the turbines have been spewing out toxic emissions. Naturally there is an older black neighborhood about 2 miles from it. They always locate these things away from white neighborhoods. The people can hardly breathe. The story is on BBC.

[littlemissmartypants]

29. It's not clear where, who you're referring to here...

Could you please elaborate?

❤️

[Linda ladeewolf]

36. Sorry, I was just reading this morning

About the Xai center in Memphis. They’ve got huge turbines running day and night that have no emission regulation on them spewing out NOx by the ton. It is only three miles or less from an older black neighborhood. The residents there are suffering from the toxic affects.
I thought it was the bbc but it’s here.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis

[Doodley]

27. If only Bill Gates had gone into politics!

[milestogo]

37. Bill Gates is intelligent and he talks to intelligent people.

The thing we've lost with Trump is that he's so arrogant he surrounds himself with incompetent sycophants.

I could accept having a billionaire president if they were humble enough and smart enough to surround themselves with competent people.

[patphil]

28. I'm not a fan of Bill Gates, but he is absolutely correct here.

What Trump and Musk have done is mass murder, plain and simple.
They have use their combination of position and wealth to cause immense pain, suffering and death to those people who relied on USAID to survive.
If they succeed in destroying Medicaid, Social Security, and the VA, there will be another round of mass murder here in the United States.

[Upthevibe]

33. babylonsister...........

Good for Bill Gates!

[Beacool]

35. Trump and his MAGA cult are defined by their cruelty and bigotry.

It's an evil regime, lacking in what made America truly great, our basic decency and compassion. MAGA is based on resentments, and prejudice. They're the racist, misogynist, homophobic, and xenophobic segment of society. Trump is just a symptom, he became their leader because he legitimized their rage and frustrations. They are the same type of people who in 1930s Germany agreed with the extermination of the Jews. The same types who cheered when gladiators and Christians died in the Roman arenas. In every era there have been people like the MAGA folks.

[Dave Bowman]

38. The enemy of my enemy is not suddenly a saint but I would keep Gates over the Rat any day.

He's a nut job and a damn fascist.

[Fil1957]

40. It's about time a well known billionaire is pointing out the obvious...

[BlueMTexpat]

41. LONG overdue, Bill!

And the worst has already been done!

[Initech]

44. He promoted RFK Jr who spouts dangerous conspiracy theories about vaccines.

And now they look like they're going to nominate a "wellness influencer" to be surgeon general.

[Cha]

50. TY Kick fo Bill Gats Speaking out Against

Mump.

[Blues Heron]

53. What is the actual musk death count? Do we have any idea who has actually died as a direct result of the cuts?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

60. He's right

Musk said empathy was a weakness and acted accordingly.

[Roxi]

61. He isn't wrong

Bill Gates isn’t perfect, but he will leave a legacy that shows more compassion than anything Elon has ever touched.