Vice President JD Vance warned the EU not to go forward with any massive fines against Elon Musk and his American social media company X for not complying with their censorship demands.
But that’s exactly what they did:
Once again, Europe is fining a successful U.S. tech company for being a successful U.S. tech company.
Europe is taxing Americans to subsidize a continent held back by Europe’s own suffocating regulations. pic.twitter.com/EzeOWZRC2t
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) December 5, 2025
I said yesterday that I believe President Trump will get involved, as he has in the past, in defense of Musk and X for being fined by these EU totalitarians. Not because it’s Elon, but because X is an American company and, as Carr pointed out, this is a tax on Americans.