{"id":1042366,"date":"2026-10-12T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042366"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:01:34","slug":"sit-down-elon-musk-gets-a-reality-check-on-his-own-platform-over-trump-donations-amid-starlink-india-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/sit-down-elon-musk-gets-a-reality-check-on-his-own-platform-over-trump-donations-amid-starlink-india-row\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sit down, Elon\u2019: Musk gets a reality check on his own platform over Trump donations amid Starlink India row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s criticism of India\u2019s business environment has drawn sharp reactions on X, with users questioning his own political spending in the US and pointing to reports on his support for Donald Trump\u2019s election campaign. <\/p>\n<p>One user posted, \u201cSit down Elon, we have a bigger fish to catch,\u201d alongside a Forbes report on Musk spending more than $200 million to help Trump get elected. Others shared reports putting his contributions to the 2024 election cycle at nearly $288 million and questioned his comments on business influence and monopolies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s criticism of India\u2019s business environment has drawn sharp reactions on X, with users questioning his own political spending in the US and pointing to reports on his support for Donald Trump\u2019s election campaign. One user posted, \u201cSit down Elon, we have a bigger fish to catch,\u201d alongside a Forbes report on Musk spending more than $200 million to help Trump get elected. Others shared reports putting his contributions to the 2024 election cycle at nearly $288 million and questioned his comments on business influence and monopolies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042367,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042366\/revisions\/1042367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}