Tech mogul Elon Musk introduced Tuesday afternoon that he could 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 generally known as Twitter at round 12:13 p.m. and 12:30 p.m., saying that SpaceX could 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 put up, apparently referring to points within the neighborhood surrounding the X headquarters within the metropolis’s mid-Market Road space.

Musk mentioned the “last 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 12 months in the past that legal guidelines of this nature would drive households and corporations to depart California to guard their youngsters,” Musk wrote in one other put up 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 carried out it.”

State Senator Scott Wiener additionally had a response.

“California actually made you with taxpayer subsidies & as a result of it is the very best place round,” he mentioned in a retweet of one in all 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 automotive firm Tesla to Austin from Palo Alto in 2021, although the corporate nonetheless has a big manufacturing unit in Fremont that has expanded since that transfer.

Musk has additionally beforehand mentioned that he moved his personal 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 prime executives.  Musk additionally fired, laid off, or in any other case misplaced nearly all of its workforce together with engineers, content material moderators, and executives answerable for making guidelines and imposing them.

In June 2023, Musk rebranded the platform as X and added a brilliant, 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 town decided there was no allow obtained for the constructing signage.