President Musk (summarized):

• we were wrong
• it's OK we were wrong because... well, NBD anyway
• Americans ❤️ HIV -> Dead Africans

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Musk questions value of US funding for HIV programmes in Mozambique

"Trump boasted last month that his administration had stopped $50m of “bomb-making” condoms being sent to the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, as part of a wider campaign led by billionaire Elon Musk to cut waste and fraud from federally funded programmes.

Trump provided no evidence for his claims, which caused widespread confusion. It later emerged that the recipients of the contraceptives may be a province in Mozambique sharing the same name, where USAID funds large-scale HIV prevention programmes.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Musk was asked whether he would correct his previous statements. Here is what he said in response:

“Well, first of all, some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody’s going to bat a thousand. We will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes,” he said.

“I’m not sure we should be sending $50m worth of condoms to anywhere, frankly. I’m not sure that’s something Americans would be really excited about. That is really an enormous number of condoms, if you think about it. If it went to Mozambique instead of Gaza, I’m like, ‘Okay, that’s not as bad, but still, why are we doing that?’” Musk continued."