Gavin Newsom's four-word riposte to Elon Musk after billionaire launched blistering attack against him and decided to move his Tesla and X headquarters to Texas over governor's new gender identity laws - as workers brace for job cuts

California Governor Gavin Newsom has clapped backmost astatine Elon Musk successful a four-word Tweet aft nan billionaire announced that he will move SpaceX and X office to Texas complete Newsom's caller gender personality laws. 

'You bent nan knee', Newsom wrote connected X, formerly Twitter, connected Tuesday, on pinch a screenshot of a 2022 Tweet by Donald Trump criticizing Musk. 

Earlier connected Tuesday, nan 52-year-old billionaire announced nan awesome move, saying Newsom's signing of a rule that bans California schoolhouse districts from notifying parents if their kid is transgender was 'the last straw'. 

The caller rule reversed decisions successful much blimpish schoolhouse districts that ordered teachers to notify parents if a student changed their sanction aliases pronouns, aliases requested to usage accommodation aliases participate successful programs that didn't lucifer their charismatic gender.  

'Because of this rule and nan galore others that preceded it, attacking some families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas,' he wrote connected X. 

'I did make it clear to Gov. Newsom astir a twelvemonth agone that laws of this quality would unit families and companies to time off California to protect their children.'

Musk later added that nan societal media tract will besides beryllium moving its office from San Francisco to Austin, saying he has 'had capable of dodging gangs of convulsive supplier addicts conscionable to get successful and retired of nan building.'

Newsom's station included Trump's Tweet astir nan tech billionaire, wherever nan erstwhile president suggested he was the logic for musk's success. 

'When Elon Musk came to nan White House asking maine for thief connected each of his galore subsidized projects, whether it's electrical cars that don't thrust agelong enough, driverless cars that crash, aliases rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he'd beryllium worthless, and telling maine really he was a large Trump instrumentality and Republican, I could person said, 'drop to your knees and beg,' and he would person done it,' Trump wrote backmost successful 2022.

Musk had besides suggested connected Tuesday that 'many will follow' and noted that 'Silicon Valley has shifted.'

The billionaire has already moved Tesla's office from Palo Alto, California to Austin aft Alameda County officials would not fto him re-open nan works nether coronavirus restrictions - contempt Newsom announcing that manufacturers could restart operations.

He followed done connected nan committedness astir a twelvemonth later, lauding Texas' deficiency of an income taxation and nan abundance of lodging successful nan area - though he announced he would still support Tesla's 'engineering headquarters' successful California.

Musk himself had moreover moved to nan Lone Star authorities successful 2020 aft surviving successful California for 2 decades and has already been successful nan process of moving SpaceX to Texas arsenic he said retired against California's wide policies.

The tech billionaire's plans to move X and SpaceX office retired of California to Texas has sparked concerns astir hundreds, if not thousands, of group losing their jobs, ABC7 News reported. 

Musk has rallied against nan usage of preferred pronouns - often mocking nan believe connected societal media and dismissing it arsenic portion of a 'woke' schedule that is vulnerable for society.

Musk is nan begetter of a trans daughter from whom he is estranged, and he blames her California backstage schoolhouse acquisition for making her politically acold near and turning her against him.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been connected nan other side, however, often championing these woke ideals - moreover though he, too, has moved his family retired of 1 of nan state's largest cities and into an exclusive area.

This comes aft nan billionaire CEO officially endorsed Trump as his prime for president pursuing Saturday's shooting calling nan Republican erstwhile president 'tough'. 

Musk, who is nan world's richest person, posted nan endorsement pinch a video of Trump pinch humor connected his look pumping his fist aft aggregate shots rant retired astatine his statesmanlike rally. 

The posts cemented Musk's shift towards right-wing authorities and hands Trump a high-profile backer successful his quest to return to nan White House successful nan November 5 election.

'I afloat endorse President Trump and dream for his accelerated recovery,' Musk posted connected his societal media level X.