Elon Musk drew attention on X after calling for people he described as disloyal to the United States to be exiled immediately, turning a brief exchange about patriotism into a sharper statement about national loyalty.
The remark came in response to a post by Spencer Pratt, a Republican candidate for mayor of Los Angeles and a reality television figure, who had written that it was acceptable to love the United States.
Musk rejected the softer framing. He wrote that anyone who does not love the United States is a traitor and deserves deep contempt, adding that those who are disloyal and do not love the country should be exiled immediately.
Pratt had previously argued that the United States is an extraordinary nation and criticized people who complain about the country while refusing to leave it. He later added that loving the United States was not only acceptable but necessary.
The exchange placed Musk's language at the center of a familiar but combustible political argument in the United States: where patriotic loyalty ends, dissent begins, and public figures draw the line between criticism of the country and rejection of it.
No formal policy proposal accompanied the comments. The episode unfolded as a social media exchange, but the wording drew attention because it linked love of country, loyalty, contempt and exile in a single political message.
