Elon Musk rebuked the White House for announcing newly protected natural resources and touting efforts to fight climate change as the nation contends with a banking crisis.
President Joe Biden said on social media Wednesday that he would direct Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to consider designating 777,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii as a national marine sanctuary. “That’s an area larger than Alaska and Colorado put together and three times the size of Texas,” the commander-in-chief commented.
Biden added that his administration has “made the largest investment to fight climate change” in the history of the nation. “Umm… the banks are melting,” Musk replied, earning more than nine times the number of likes and five times the number of retweets as the original post from Biden.
The remarks from Biden about conservation and environmental protection indeed come shortly after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, where the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was forced to guarantee the funds of account holders with balances surpassing the $250,000 threshold typically insured by the government-backed corporation.
