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”.
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“He’s not going to become president, that I can tell you,” Donald Trump said at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona.
“I’m calm, do you know why?” he asked the crowd. “He can't be, he was not born in this country,” continued the Republican about the boss of Tesla and SpaceX, born in South Africa and naturalized American.
“I like to be accompanied by intelligent people,” said Donald Trump, assuring that Elon Musk was not “recovering 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 political space with the future president.
This week, the one who is responsible for an extragovernmental mission of deregulation and reduction of public spending seemed to set the tone for the political program.
The man with more than 200 million subscribers in his network
Donald Trump followed suit, pushing the United States to the brink of budgetary paralysis, the famous shutdownjust before Christmas. Congress has achieved in the extremes to an agreement, during the night from Friday to Saturday.
