Alex Skolnick recently backed up actor Stephen Fry’s comments about Elon Musk.
Fry reflected on his decision to leave X/Twitter by saying it was “because of [Elon Musk],” in an interview for Britain’s LBC, and criticized the billionaire’s inability to handle criticism.
“I began to see signs of woeful and worrying qualities in this Musk man,” the actor shared. “And I saw him veering off into the kind of—You know, I just don’t want to use words like ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ because he’s not, I’m not a psychiatrist.”
“But the kind of self-obsessed inability to take criticism that one sees in Trump and one knows from certain people when they’re drunk, but not normal people when they’re sober or thoughtful. And certainly, it’s not a very British thing, and I just thought, ‘This man is going off the rails severely. And it seems he’s gone further and further towards the dark side.’”
Skolnick retweeted a clip of the interview, writing, “All this. Beware of anyone unwilling to accept any criticism, acknowledge ever having been at fault, apologize or evolve their views. That is the LAST type of person who should hold any powerful position. Accepting this type of behavior is weakness. Resisting it is strength.”
Skolnick has been critical of Musk since the billionaire took over Twitter and rebranded it as X. When Musk suggested charging $8 per month for blue verification checks, the guitarist even accused him of “turning Twitter into a flaming wreck.”
He later responded to someone defending the businessman by pointing at his achievements, writing, “More than one thing can be true. His past success, building of companies, etc., is undeniable. So is the fact that his Twitter reign is atrocious, the worst takeover of all time, financially & otherwise. They’re not mutually exclusive. Howard Hughes innovated too, then melted down.”
The clash between Skolnick and Musk’s political opinions also clashed as the billionaire supported Donald Trump’s presidency while the singer strongly opposed it.
All this👇 Beware of anyone unwilling to accept any criticism, acknowledge ever having been at fault, apologize or evolve their views. That is the LAST type of person who should hold any powerful position. Accepting this type of behavior is weakness. Resisting it is strength.
— Alex Skolnick (@AlexSkolnick) October 11, 2024