Elon Musk’s Trump Outreach Is Angering ‘The Resistance’

The founder of SpaceX and Tesla wants to influence policy from the inside. Many fans aren’t OK with that.

Tech CEOs Speak Out Against Trump's Travel Ban

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Sometimes it seems like Elon Musk is spacewalking without a tether.

America’s clean-energy icon—the founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX—riled up many of his supporters this weekend by offering a decidedly tepid criticism of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim nations.