Where will Elon Musk stop? Not content with being the richest man in world history, he now wants to exert his influence on American and global politics. Elon Musk has become Donald Trump’s closest collaborator, always at his side, as during the reopening ceremony of Notre-Dame de Paris on December 7, and participating in the appointment of the members of his cabinet. At Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect’s villa in Florida, which has become the antechamber of power while awaiting the inauguration, Elon Musk displays his support for far-right leaders whose libertarian and “anti-wokist” ideas he shares. Argentinian President Javier Milei and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban thus obtained an audience with the founder of Tesla and SpaceX.
Elon Musk also received the British Nagel Farage, architect of Brexit, to discuss the financing of his Europhobic and ultra-conservative party, Reform UK. He “wants to help us”, declared Nigel Farage, without confirming the sum of 100 million dollars put forward by the British media. At the head of a fortune estimated at $440 billion, Elon Musk is very generous with his champions. He thus paid 200 million dollars to Donald Trump’s campaign.
Modified algorithm
But it is on X (formerly Twitter), which he bought in 2022, that his influence is exercised in the most visible way. By changing his nickname to Kekius Maximus for two days, he caused the value of the cryptocurrency of the same name to increase by 1,400%. Already followed by more than 210 million people, he modified the social network’s algorithm to increase the visibility of his posts after announcing his support for the Republican candidate, according to a study by the Queensland University of Technology.
And it is also on X that he leads his crusades, in particular against the British and German governments. Since Labor returned to power in Downing Street in July, he has called for new elections and continues to attack British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom he accuses of having repressed anti-migrant rioters too harshly. last August and running “a tyrannical police state”. On Thursday, he called for the release of far-right activist Tommy Robinson, founder of the small group from the English Defense League hooligan movement sentenced at the end of October to 18 months in prison for having fueled anti-migrant violence.
Scholz, un « idiot incapable »
As for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he described him as an “incompetent idiot” or even an “incompetent imbecile” after the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market. A few weeks before the early legislative elections, he openly displays his support for the far-right AfD party, which he described as “the last glimmer of hope” for Germany in an article published on Saturday by the daily The world. An interference denounced by Olaf Scholz, while the AfD continues to climb in the polls.
It was again on Already appointed to head a future Department of Government Effectiveness by Donald Trump, will Elon Musk aim for the American presidency? Asked about this, the president-elect replied that the Constitution prohibits him from doing so, because he was not born in the United States. In any case, for the founder of SpaceX, in favor of the conquest of Mars, the world would not be enough.
