DeSantis warns Musk: Don’t bring ‘woke employees’ if Twitter moves to Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FLV) – Gov. Ron DeSantis reacted to the possibility of Twitter CEO Elon Musk moving the social media giant’s headquarters to the Sunshine State.

“You know, I don’t know, I mean, I know Elon and basically, what I would tell him is like, ok, if you’re going to move Twitter to Florida, are you bringing woke employees to Florida or are you bringing just your people,” he said to Benny Johnson. “If it’s just his people, then it may be good.”

“And he did fire a lot of people at Twitter.”

Florida has been an increasingly red state with DeSantis winning just under 60% of the popular vote in 2022.

Voter registration data into 2023 has shown Democrats losing tens of thousands of voters and the state Republican lead breaching 450,000 registered voters.

A blue state exodus to red states like Florida also continued in 2022. Florida was reportedly the fastest growing state in decades, while also shifting to the right.

Earlier in April, Musk said that around 80% of Twitter’s workforce had been fired.

There were reportedly “just under 8,000” staff when he entered the company, now down to nearly 1,500.

DeSantis continued saying that Silicon Valley companies like Twitter live in an “intellectual cocoon” where “woke ideology infuses everything.”

“And over the last many years, they’ve been exporting that ideology via these social platforms all the way around the world. And it’s really, I think, infected politics, culture in a very negative way,” DeSantis said.

“So I really applaud him for taking on Twitter trying to [move] it back towards facts and truth, and stop to always parrot the ideology and trying to censor beliefs that conflict with it.”

Last year, DeSantis was a supporter of Musk’s pursuit in purchasing Twitter.

“@elonmusk’s offer to buy Twitter is a good deal for shareholders and raises the prospect that the platform will be a place where free speech can thrive, not a tool for narrative enforcement,” he said.