Nobody has to pretend anything but a lot of people do because they are desperate to cling to some super hero and want some outside force to fix their lives so they don't have to be uncomfortable ever.

Musk was born into a family of transhumanists. Everything he has done has furthered the agenda of the globalists with the possible exception of Twitter although I would disagree and say that's part of it as well as it is all at once a pressure release valve, a precursor to a social credit score system (as Musk himself has said he desires and has said was the point of making the purchase), and a way to position transhumanist technocratic carbon tax-selling world-satellite-blanketing brain-chipping Musk as a populist hero to a populace who is ostensibly against all those things.

To think he's suddenly being blackmailed is naive, he is who he's always been