Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire with SpaceX's IPO
Source: CBS News
Elon Musk has become the first person to cross the trillionaire threshold, at least on paper, after SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share.
Before the IPO, Musk was worth an estimated $813 billion, a fortune more than twice as large as the planet's second-richest person, Google co-founder Larry Page, who is worth an estimated $288 billion, according to Forbes.
SpaceX formally setting its stock price at $135 boosted Musk's fortune to just over $1 trillion. The shares, which will trade under the ticker symbol "SPCX," are poised to begin trading on Friday after the Nasdaq Composite index opens at 9:30 a.m. If SpaceX rises above $135 per share, Musk's wealth will climb further, though he could fall below the trillionaire threshold if the stock sinks.
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Musk's surging fortune represents a "new Gilded Age" of wealth inequality, Oxfam America senior director of economic justice Nabil Ahmed said in a statement.
"Elon Musk's rise to trillionaire status marks a new pinnacle of oligarchy," Ahmed said.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-ipo-trillionaire-wealth/
Hope it all ends up in the pockets of Epstein’s victims and their families.
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In 1953, former NAZI, Project PAPERCLIP import, and father of the V-2 and Saturn-V rockets, Dr. Werner von Braun, published Project Mars, a science fiction novel to generate interest in rocketry and manned space exploration. Von Braun's book also mentioned the name of the man who would lead a 10-person "Kabinett" to administer Mars. Coincidentally or not, Von Braun named the fellow, Elon.
PDF to same.
This really, really bugs me.
An excellent article from The Debrief:
Did Wernher von Braun Actually Predict Elon Musk Would Rule Mars Over 70 Years Ago?
by Tim McMillan
The Debrief, January 28, 2025
In the annals of space exploration history, a curious coincidence recently captured the imagination of science enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists alike.
On January 27, a social media claim went viral, alleging that Wernher von Braun, the famed German-American rocket scientist, had predicted a leader named “Elon” would guide humanity’s colonization of Mars. This claim originates from a passage in The Mars Project, an obscure science fiction book by von Braun in 1948.
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However, a closer examination of the facts—and the historical context surrounding von Braun’s work—potentially offers a more nuanced and ultimately less mystical explanation for the bizarre coincidence.
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In the text, von Braun envisions a Martian society with a political structure akin to a technocracy. The leader of this society is referred to as “Elon,“ a title rather than a proper name.
“The government of Mars consisted of ten men. At its head was a governor elected by the general population for five years at a time, whom the Martians called the ‘Elon,‘” von Braun wrote.
Why von Braun chose the name “Elon“ for the leader of the Martian colony in The Mars Project remains a subject of speculation. One plausible explanation is that von Braun, who was once a member of the Nazi Party and came to America through Operation Paperclip, likely deliberately avoided German words commonly associated with leadership titles, such as Führer, due to their apparent connections to Adolf Hitler.
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https://thedebrief.org/did-wernher-von-braun-actually-predict-elon-musk-would-rule-mars-over-70-years-ago/
Some passages seem to have struck and stuck.
A self-fulfilling wannabe Martian dictator uh leader displays a non-traditional gesture of salutation.
shares in muskrat's spacex for free from mustrat 
I'm manifesting a the bigger they are, the harder they fail scenario for eloon, and the sooner, the better.
He's a leech.
He should be on everyone's sh¡t list because of the damage he and his blindly allegiant hired hit men did to USAID and the rest of our republic.
Unfortunately, he has a large cult following of mostly misogynist incel bros.
He is a disgustingly vile pasty white nationalist drug addict pseudointellectual nazi.
I will celebrate his ultimate and final elimination.
Elon played us and we fell for it. He deserves nothing but a lifetime in maximum security prison. And so do Bezos, Ellison, and Zuckerberg.
If instigating Race Riots or helping to elect Trump were Good 
NEW: The horrific racist attacks in Belfast this week were orchestrated by young members of the global Active Club network—neo-Nazis that promoted using violence in Northern Ireland. @davidgilbert.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
— Andrew Couts (@couts.bsky.social) 2026-06-12T13:24:43.553Z
Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Northern Ireland.
— The Verge (@theverge.com) 2026-06-11T15:57:38.746Z
Musk called to prosecute politicians for allowing ‘dangerous third world savages’ into the UK.
Elon Musk spent 0 million getting Trump elected.
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2026-06-12T19:01:08.535686Z
During this midterm cycle, he's spent million.
In total, that’s 0.0375% of his trillion net worth.
Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so.
We must get Big Money out of politics.