Tech mogul Elon Musk introduced Tuesday afternoon that he can be shifting the headquarters of each his social media firm X and SpaceX to Texas in response to a brand new California regulation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Musk made the announcement in a pair of posts to the social media platform previously often called Twitter at round 12:13 p.m. and 12:30 p.m., saying that SpaceX can be shifting its headquarters from Hawthorne to Starbase, Texas, whereas X would relocate its headquarters from San Francisco to the tech hub of Austin.

“Have had sufficient of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts simply to get out and in of the constructing,” Musk added in a separate publish, apparently referring to points within the neighborhood surrounding the X headquarters within the metropolis’s mid-Market Road space.

Musk stated the “ultimate straw” in his determination was a brand new California regulation that bans college districts from passing insurance policies requiring faculties to inform mother and father if their youngster asks to alter their gender identification. 

“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom a couple of yr in the past that legal guidelines of this nature would pressure households and corporations to go away California to guard their kids,” Musk wrote in one other publish on X.  

The posts by Musk didn’t go unnoticed. Newsom’s replied was a single sentence — “You bent the knee.” — together with a picture of a tweet then President Trump posted a couple of Musk go to to the White Home the place Trump famous he might have informed Musk to drop to his knees and beg “and he would have completed it.”

State Senator Scott Wiener additionally had a response.

“California actually made you with taxpayer subsidies & as a result of it is the most effective place round,” he stated in a retweet of certainly one of Musk’s posts. “Will this be a pretend mood tantrum transfer identical to Tesla’s pretend “transfer” to Texas?”  

Musk already moved the company headquarters of his electrical automobile firm Tesla to Austin from Palo Alto in 2021, although the corporate nonetheless has a big manufacturing facility in Fremont that has expanded since that transfer.

Musk has additionally beforehand stated that he moved his non-public residence from California to Texas.

The announcement about X comes lower than two years after Musk took cost of the previous Twitter social media platform in a $44 billion deal and fired its high executives.  Musk additionally fired, laid off, or in any other case misplaced the vast majority of its workforce together with engineers, content material moderators, and executives in command of making guidelines and imposing them.

In June 2023, Musk rebranded the platform as X and added a vivid, flashing X emblem to the highest of the San Francisco constructing which homes its workplaces. It was eliminated inside days after space residents complained and the town decided there was no allow obtained for the constructing signage.