Elon Musk is one of Donald Trump’s most powerful supporters. The richest man in the world is now close to the American president and could perhaps play an important role in the Trump administration.
During Donald Trump’s election campaign, Elon Musk gave a million dollars every day to a Republican voter. A “comm stunt” that made the rounds in the media. By changing the algorithms of his social network X, the billionaire also ensured that Donald Trump had maximum visibility to the detriment of Kamala Harris.
“It is entirely a media that is at the service of the Republican cause and of Donald Trump more generally. And through this, he is at the service of Elon Musk himself since not only, for political reasons, will he now probably occupy an important position in the new Trump administration, but in addition, it will give wind to the sails of all of its projects“, explains Xavier Degraux, social media specialist.
Elon Musk is the owner of the electric car company Tesla and SpaceX specializing in aeronautics. Dozens of investigations are currently opened by different American administrations targeting these companies. They point in particular to the safety of Tesla cars or the environmental damage caused by failures during SpaceX rocket launches. The presence of Elon Musk in the entourage or in the administration of the new President Trump could facilitate the management of these procedures.
“Being close to the president will make it possible to implement certain deregulations. That is to say the reduction of certain rules such as environmental standards, such as the content published on the various social networks“, says economist Xavier Robben.
Tesla and SpaceX have accumulated at least $15 billion in contracts with the US government over the past ten years. Elon Musk can hope to see this figure greatly increase: “In terms of contracts, he will be able to participate in certain commercial contracts, whether public, military, but also close to the Pentagon or even NASA.“, adds Xavier Robben.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk now form a powerful political, financial and media alliance completely unprecedented in contemporary history.
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