Donald Trump responded during a meeting in Arizona to rumors that his loyal billionaire ally has presidential ambitions.
Does Elon Musk want Donald Trump's place? Faced with questions about the growing political influence of the boss of X, the president-elect assured Sunday that his ally could not become president of the United States, because “he was not born in this country”.
“He’s not going to become president, that I can tell you.”declared Donald Trump, at a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. “I’m calm, do you know why?”he asked the crowd. “He can’t be, he wasn’t born in this country”continued the Republican about the boss of Tesla and SpaceX, born in South Africa and naturalized American in 2002. Article II of the United States Constitution provides that only people born with American nationality can run for president.
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“I like being around intelligent people”developed Donald Trump, assuring that Elon Musk was not in the process of “reclaim the presidency”. Donald Trump responds to criticism, particularly from the Democratic camp, who have portrayed the richest man in the world as “President Musk” in recent days, as he occupies the political space with the elected president.
This week, the one who is responsible for an extra-governmental mission of deregulation and reduction of public spending seemed to set the tone of the political agenda.
The man with more than 200 million subscribers on his X network raised the charge against a budget text, affirming: “This law must not pass”. Donald Trump followed suit, pushing the United States to the brink of budgetary paralysis, the famous «shutdown»just before Christmas. Congress reached an agreement at the last minute, during the night from Friday to Saturday.
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