Twitter chief Elon Musk known as Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg “cool” following her latest spat with controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his arrest by the Romanian police. Elon Musk tweeted, “The sheer quantity of name consciousness achieved by Greta inside a couple of years is astounding. I believe she’s cool tbh.”

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Media persona Andrew Tate, who has prior to now made misogynistic and far-right feedback, had earlier tagged Greta Thunberg in a tweet boasting about his assortment of “33 vehicles” and their “huge emissions”. Replying to him, Greta Thunberg known as on him to enlighten her and offered a pretend electronic mail deal with for a similar.

Andrew Tate then launched a video of himself wearing a Versace gown, smoking a cigar and receiving two packing containers of Jerry’s Pizza, a widely known Romanian chain. Andrew Tate questioned Greta Thunberg’s gender and insulted her with hateful remarks.

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“I am clearly a stranger to on-line controversy, it is not one thing I usually do, however now the mainstream press is commenting on the truth that I used to be informing Greta that my very intensive automobile assortment with inside combustion engines that run on useless dinosaurs have an infinite emission profile, and he or she replied by telling me her personal electronic mail deal with. Greta’s electronic mail deal with I’ve small d**ok power. What would that be your personal electronic mail deal with, Greta? Unusual,” Andrew Tate stated.

He was detained by Romanian authorities on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group, Reuters reported.