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LIZ PEEK: Elon Musk’s well-deserved win causes the zero-sum left to freak out

Musk’s revolutionary vision of reusable rockets has created a company that dominates global satellite communications and leads space exploration

By Liz Peek Fox News

Published June 16, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Warren, Sanders criticize Elon Musk's trillionaire status

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders criticize Elon Musk's rise to trillionaire status after SpaceX's IPO.

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Americans are cheering the extraordinary achievements of Elon Musk, who through sheer grit and brilliance has powered the United States to the forefront of the space race. Musk’s revolutionary vision of reusable rockets has created a company that dominates global satellite communications and leads space exploration, putting within reach the ability to put data centers into orbit and create a human colony on the moon or perhaps eventually on Mars. In the process, Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire.

As Musk said the day he sold a stake in SpaceX to the public: "That’s what SpaceX is all about – it’s to take the fiction out of science fiction and create an exciting, inspiring future for everyone."

Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are not excited or inspired. The multi-millionaire senators and their leftist collaborators are seething, offended beyond comprehension that a single individual has become so rich. They view Musk’s record-setting sale of equity in SpaceX and accumulation of wealth as an indictment of our capitalist society, though they have yet to explain how anyone has been injured by the entrepreneur’s success.

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Indeed, they ignore the fabulous wealth that Musk has created for SpaceX........

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