Elon Musk to Bernie Sanders after taxing wealthy tweet: 'I keep forgetting that you’re still alive'

Elon Musk's latest target on Twitter is U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime advocate for taxing billionaires and redistributing wealth.

Bernie Sanders tweeted, "We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period." on Saturday afternoon. The tweet was directed towards his followers, not Musk in particular.

One day later, Musk responded to the 80-yearTwitter thread saying, "I keep forgetting that you’re still alive" in a tweet.

He followed with another taunting tweet an hour later, saying, "Want me to sell more stock, Bernie? Just say the word …"

Musk recently sold $1.1 billion in Tesla stock after polling his followers on Twitter about whether or not he should sell 10% of his shares. In a poll tweet that garnered over 3.5 million votes, 57.9% of respondents said yes and 42.1% said no.

Tesla became the most valuable American carmaker in 2020, and its current valuation is over $1 trillion, eclipsing veteran car makers such as Ford and General Motors.

Musk has now become the wealthiest person in the world and is set to become the first trillionaire in history.

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Sanders tweeting that the extremely wealthy should pay their fair share of taxes. CNN Business has reached out to Sanders for comment.

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