The Tesla and SpaceX CEO recently struck a $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform. Calling the ban "morally wrong," Musk made the comments at FT Live's Future of the Car Conference. "Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots, or scam, spam accounts. I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake, because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice." Elon Musk, via CNBC.