“I like to be accompanied by intelligent people,” explained the president-elect to explain his proximity to the richest man in the world.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk in Brownsville, United States, November 19, 2024. (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / BRANDON BELL)
Donald Trump reacted on Sunday, December 22 to criticism, particularly from the Democratic camp, which portrays Elon Musk as an eminence grise with growing influence, or even as an ally ready to “reclaim the presidency”. But the latter assured to be “calm”: Elon Musk cannot 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,” Donald Trump said 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. “I like to be accompanied by intelligent people,” said Donald Trump, assuring that Elon Musk was not “reclaiming the presidency”.
“President Musk”
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.
Last week, Elon Musk spoke out against a budget agreement just concluded by Congress in order to avoid an imminent paralysis of federal government services, a “shutdown”. “This law must not pass,” wrote the 53-year-old multi-billionaire, launching an avalanche of messages against this text, although it is supported by Republican elected officials. Some Republican deputies very quickly got into his wheel,
not hesitating to openly flatter him
: “I have been waiting for a profound change in dynamics for five years. Here we are”, for example, wrote North Carolina elected official Dan Bishop on X. Other parliamentarians from the hard right, later, were went so far as to demand that he be elected head of the House of Representatives.
Senator Bernie Sanders, a figure of the American left, then spoke on X about “President Musk”.
“The Republicans are following his orders. It’s crazy”
commented Democratic elected official Don Beyer. “At least we know who’s in charge,” quipped another Democratic parliamentarian, Jim McGovern.
Strategist David Axelrod pointed out contradictions in the claims of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
“They need to see each other and decide who is president”
he jokes on CNN.
The meteoric political rise of the multi-billionaire,
originally from South Africa and naturalized American, defies all historical comparisons. Never before have we seen in the United States an entrepreneur take on such stature so quickly and so openly, without ever having held an electoral mandate.
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