Nick Jonas received backlash on Wednesday for seemingly expressing his support for Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter).
Jonas shared a photo of Musk with a caption reading, “Take us to the Year 3000.” The post was in response to the Tesla owner posting an old GIF of the Jonas Brothers rotating a coffee table. In the caption, he wrote that the “tables had turned” in response to a story about how Tesla was allegedly “up 100% since Donald Trump won!”
Following Jonas’ post on X, comments started pouring in, slamming the musician for his apparent support for the controversial figure.
“Nick stop this we all prayed for you in social studies class when you announced your diabetes in the middle of the day,” one user wrote.
“Let me go see what ‘unproblematic i stay out of the way’ Kevin Jonas is up to,” shared another one.
A third one wrote, “tweeting at elon musk is definitely a choice.”
One fan noted that perhaps Jonas didn’t intend the post as a form of support. “Am I the only one who still has faith in him and believes he meant ‘take us to the year 3000’ as a ‘I don’t wanna be here, I rather escape those dark times’?” they wrote. “I mean he was home-schooled.”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to a rep for the artist and actor.
Jonas is the latest in a string of celebrities who have seemingly expressed their support for the X owner. Khloé Kardashian is set to debut a video podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land, on the social media platform on Jan. 8, THR exclusively reported earlier this week. The podcast will include weekly conversations with guests including Scott Disick, Kourtney Kardashian, Jay Shetty and Mel Robbins.
The month before, Kim Kardashian promoted Tesla’s humanoid robot servant and posed with a Tesla car in a photo shoot.
There have also been stars who have spoken out against Musk. Saturday Night Live castmember Chloe Fineman revealed that he made her cry in the week leading up to his hosting gig.
“You made I, Chloe Fineman burst into tears because I stayed up late writing a sketch,” she said in a now-deleted TikTok. “I was so excited, I came in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, ‘It’s not funny.’”
She continued: “I waited for you to be like, ‘Ha ha, jk.’ No, then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page, being, like, ‘I didn’t laugh once, not one time.’”
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