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Elon Musk president instead of Donald Trump? the republican puts the church back in the middle of the village. (Photo of the two men taken before takeoff of a test flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Texas).
UNITED STATES – He doesn't like being overshadowed. So faced with persistent rumors about the growing influence of his friend Elon Musk on his future presidency, Republican Donald Trump wanted to clarify things this Sunday, December 22 during a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
“No, he will not be president, I can tell you that. And I'm calm, you know why? Because he was not born in this country”underlined the president-elect in a hoarse voice, as you can see in the video extract below (in English without subtitles), shared by an American journalist
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In fact, the Constitution requires that the American president must be born in the country (among other requirements) to be elected. This is not the case for the founder of SpaceX and owner of X (formerly Twitter) who became a great friend of Donald Trump, who was born in South Africa. However, he was naturalized American.
Trump praises Musk, a “smart” man
“I like being around intelligent people”developed Donald Trump, assuring that Elon Musk was not “ regain the presidency ». He was responding to criticism particularly coming from the Democratic side, who portrayed the richest man in the world as “ President Musk » in recent days as it occupies the political space.
Elon Musk had notably shared his firm opposition to the draft budget negotiated between the Republicans and the Democrats, a text ultimately not adopted which pushed the country to the brink of a “shutdown” (budgetary paralysis). Donald Trump stood behind his opinion. Another bill was finally adopted at the last minute during the night from Friday to Saturday.
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Resharing on X the president-elect's remarks made in Arizona this Sunday, Elon Musk simply replied: “Donald Trump is great!” » Openly transphobic, he undoubtedly also approved the comments of his friend, who assured that same day that “the official policy of the United States will be that there are only two genders, male and female” from January 20, the start date of his mandate.
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