{"id":287318,"date":"2024-08-21T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=338866"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:02:31","slug":"elon-musk-denies-rumor-i-have-not-given-a-cybertruck-with-a-machine-gun-to-a-warlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-denies-rumor-i-have-not-given-a-cybertruck-with-a-machine-gun-to-a-warlord\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk denies rumor: &#8216;I have not given a Cybertruck with a machine gun to a warlord&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk continues to deny that he gave a Chechen warlord a Cybertruck equipped with a machine gun, despite the fact that the warlord himself made the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/19\/europe\/chechnya-kadyrov-musk-tesla-cybertruck-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reported, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Republic of Chechnya annexed by Russia who acts as a soldier for Vladimir Putin in the region, claimed <strong>in a Telegram message over the weekend that Elon Musk had given him the makeshift cyber tank.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kadyrov said he received a Tesla Cybertrack from Elon Musk. He promised to send it to the &quot;special military operation&quot; zone and attached a machine gun to it.<br><br>&quot;Elon, thank you! Come to Grozny, I will receive you as the most dear guest! I do not think that our Russian MFA will be\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m72fg2G2PU\">pic.twitter.com\/m72fg2G2PU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gerashchenko_en\/status\/1824818908500816224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;We have received a Tesla cybertruck from the respected Elon Musk,&#8217; wrote Kadyrov, according to CNN&#8217;s translation. &#8216;I was delighted to test the new equipment and personally saw why it is called the Cyberbeast.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to criticism on X, Musk insisted that the claim was false, <strong>and used an slang for disabled people to make his point clear.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?<br><br>That\u2019s amazing ??<\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1825307592404398131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Are you seriously so r*tarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?&#8217; the billionaire wrote. &#8216;It&#8217;s unbelievable.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A controversy that keeps haunting Elon Musk<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that initial denial, Kadyrov&#8217;s statement continued to spread like wildfire on social media. <strong>In response, Musk reaffirmed his denial, this time taking advantage of another user&#8217;s post.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I highly doubt that Elon Musk is giving away Cybertrucks to Russian officials,&#8217; wrote the user alongside a screenshot of an article repeating Kadyrov&#8217;s claim. &#8216;Maybe the guy got it from someone who sold it to him. But I can&#8217;t imagine Elon Musk giving away cybertrucks to Russia.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is completely false. He is trolling.<\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1825713579972080073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the most logical answer is that the Chechen leader was probably just joking, or at least that&#8217;s what the X owner believes. &#8216;This is completely false,&#8217; Musk wrote. &#8216;He&#8217;s trolling.&#8217; <strong>It&#8217;s curious to see how trolls fail to turn his own social network against him&#8230; once again.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk continues to deny that he gave a Chechen warlord a Cybertruck equipped with a machine gun, despite the fact that the warlord himself made the claim. As CNN reported, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Republic of Chechnya annexed by Russia who acts as a soldier for Vladimir Putin in the region, claimed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-denies-rumor-i-have-not-given-a-cybertruck-with-a-machine-gun-to-a-warlord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elon Musk denies rumor: &#8216;I have not given a Cybertruck with a machine gun to a warlord&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":287319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-287318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311798,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287318\/revisions\/311798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287318"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=287318"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=287318"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=287318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}