---
title: "Elon Musk Warns Conservatives to “Stay Out of People’s Bedrooms”"
description: "Elon Musk supposedly told the GOP to \"get out of people's bedrooms\" at a swanky political donor dinner this week."
date: "2022-08-19"
modified: "2022-08-19"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-conservative-bedroom-politics"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "politics"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Elon Musk Warns Conservatives to “Stay Out of People’s Bedrooms”

![Elon Musk supposedly told the GOP to "get out of people's bedrooms" at a swanky political donor dinner this week.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/elon-musk-conservative-bedroom-politics.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images\</em\>*

## Twice a Day

Whether you agree with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk [over his Twitter deal](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-investor-circus-show>), his [business strategy](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-sells-7-billion-tesla-shares-twitter>) or even his [sometimes eyebrow-raising personal life](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-two-more-secret-children>), it's hard to argue with what he just told a bunch of wealthy GOP donors.

*Mediaite* [reported this week](<https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-advises-gop-leaders-to-be-more-compassionate-and-stay-out-of-peoples-bedrooms-during-exclusive-retreat/>) that Musk recently attended a swanky GOP donor dinner in Wyoming, and that he was asked during a speech how the Republican party could best win midterm elections and improve their approval ratings.

Musk reportedly told the GOP to "stay out of people's bedrooms," most likely alluding to [anti-LGBTQ+ policies the party has passed](<https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/-dont-say-gay-bill-passed-lgbtq-online-hate-surged-400-rcna42617>) that [threaten community members' safety](<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/study-finds-lgbtq-people-much-likelier-to-be-crime-victims>) in recent years.

True to his [die hard commitment to centrism](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531888685666508800>), he also reportedly told Democrats to "stay out of people's wallets."

## Center... Right?

Musk has been getting increasing political lately, tweeting even more thoughts about the United States' political system before the dinner speech.

"To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!" [Musk wrote online Tuesday evening](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1559690651687608321?s=20&t=CMfmVwWIQPfzXowzVUlMQw>).

It's admirable to know Musk is calling out the GOP for policies that [inevitably lead to the death of LGBTQ+ people](<https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/multiracial-lgbtq-youth-face-heightened-suicide-risk/>), and he's right about the chances that more progressive social policy could improve the party's optics. He was also right to remind donors on Tuesday that immigrants like himself — even loud, controversial ones — contribute to a [more robust country and economy](<https://hbr.org/2018/10/research-shows-immigrants-help-businesses-grow-heres-why#:~:text=But%20immigrants%20aren't%20just,and%20six%2Dyear%20time%20horizons.>).

There's no way to know if Musk's words will have an impact on those deeply ingrained anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Also unclear? What Musk would do if the party fails to change course.

**More on decent government decisions:** [*Hearing Aids Will Be Available Over-the-Counter Starting This Fall, FDA Says*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/hearing-aids-will-be-available-over-the-counter-starting-this-fall-fda-says>)