‘Treelon’ Musk donates $1 million to #TeamTrees
Here's a way to improve your tarnished reputation: Donate $1 million for a worthy cause.
After a quick Twitter back and forth with MrBeast, a YouTuber known for making large donations to various causes, Elon Musk pledged to donate $1 million to #TeamTrees. The initiative aims to plant 20 million trees around the globe by Jan. 1, 2020, at a cost of a dollar per tree.
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It appears that Musk followed through right away, as MrBeast later tweeted the Tesla CEO is now the number one donor for the project.
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Musk subsequently changed his Twitter handle to Treelon and explained his name (Elon, not Treelon) "literally means tree" in Hebrew. (Wait, isn't Treelon "tree tree" then? Never mind.)
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Treelon's donation comes a day after a court ruling that Musk has to go to trial in December over a defamation suit from Vernon Unsworth, a cave rescue diver whom Musk had referred to as "pedo guy," in a Twitter spat in July.
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