"Elon Musk kind of turned out to be an asshole and I don't want to be driving a car built and designed by an asshole. So, uh, looking forward to my new ride."
I've never heard of the site Mediaite before. I didn't click the link, but plenty of AI slop sites are popping up and headlines like this are a good way to spot them.
EDIT: apparently the sites been around for a bit, and this seems to be a one off headline issue. The credited writer appears to have several articles without issues apparent at first glance. Another article says "White House attorney" but it's an attorney that's acting as a liaison. Maybe just a nitpick. Some sensationalist headlines. Same as I've seen elsewhere so nothing too egregious.
Such a strange sentence. Makes you "garden path" (reanalyze the syntax after already being deeper into the structure). Minimally need a "that" after "Senator".
Though it's uncommon usage, so that's actually a tick against it potentially being AI generated.
"Senator Elon Musk" is ambiguous phrasing. Obviously, what is meant is "Senator [that] Elon Musk", but it could also have been calling Aparthiedman himself a senator.
Poor grammar aside, the headline is inaccurate. I am all in favor of people dumping Teslas, but Musk neither designed nor built any of them. He paid people to design them, then he paid people to build them. And by all accounts, he did not pay them well or treat them kindly.
Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to edit the title, but I think this article would have been clearer with a comma. I'm going to leave it up, but sticky this here with a clearer title: "[The] Senator [Who] Elon Musk Called a 'Traitor' Gets Rid of His Tesla: Don't Want a Car Built By an 'A**hole'."
Dude I had to read the post headline like 4 times to figure that out. It was so confusing. At first I was like "shouldn't this say copresident Elon Musk?"
Two additional words to the title make it easier to read.
THE Senator THAT Elon Musk called a “traitor” gets rid of his Tesla.
Can also replace that with who I reckon. Or whom? Where’s the grammar nazis when you need them. Oof they’re going to have to rebrand aren’t they since real nazis are back!