The internet has labelled Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as a “perfect couple” after a picture of them at a recent event went viral, triggering social media reactions that the two were “dating”.
At an award ceremony in New York on Tuesday, Musk also praised Meloni, calling her “authentic, honest and truthful”.
Musk, while bestowing the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award on Meloni, said it was an honour to present the accolade to “someone who is even more beautiful on the inside than she was on the outside.”
Meloni also took to her official X account and thanked Musk for his remarks.
Grazie Elon pic.twitter.com/NgHchWLUtB
— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) September 24, 2024
Seeing Musk and Meloni together, netizens exploded the internet with comments like, “I am totally shipping these two. Perfect” and “Now that is the kind of international power couple I can get behind.” Some users also wrote, “That’s Amore (That’s love).”
“I wanna find someone that looks at me the same way Meloni looks at Musk,” another user wrote.
However, Musk silenced all the comments on Wednesday by replying to an X post that questioned if he and Meloni “would date”.
Musk wrote: “Not dating”.
This is not the first time the internet has paired the two. In December last year, several posts on X (formerly known as Twitter) claimed that the two were together after Musk accepted Meloni’s invitation to attend a political festival in Rome.
