WASHINGTON More than two years ago Elon Musk and Donald Trump were in a heated war of words.
Musk, who had just become the richest person in the world, had said that he had never voted for a Republican.
Former President Trump barked at his campaign meeting Musk’s “bullshit farmer”. According to Trump, Musk had said privately that he had voted for him in the previous election.
Musk, on the other hand said to his biographer at the time that he considered Trump a “fraud” and deeply despised him.
Musk also urged publiclythat it is already time for Trump to sail off into the sunset. Musk ended up endorsing the governor of Florida Ron DeSantisia the next Republican presidential candidate.
Trump acknowledged back revealing that Musk had visited the White House to ask for support for his companies. According to Trump, he could have ordered Musk to his knees and beg and the multi-billionaire would have obeyed him.
At the time, Trump quipped that Musk’s cars don’t go far enough and his rockets don’t fly anywhere.
Now there is another sound in the clock. Last weekend, Trump invited Musk, who is known for Tesla electric cars and the messaging service X, among other things, to the stage with him and praised both him and his company to the skies.
Musk, on the other hand, said that Trump is the last hope of American democracy.
It is quite clear, that Musk and Trump still despise each other. Deep down, they seem to think of each other as frauds whose word cannot be trusted.
However, both are businessmen, and both are benefiting from the deal right now. Trump gets money and Musk gets power.
Before the presidential election day in November, Musk is expected to visit several times, especially in the most important swing state for the election, Pennsylvania, where he lived during his student years in the 1990s.
The size of Musk’s donation to Trump’s campaign is not yet known, but the amount is likely to be at least tens of millions.
Most recently Musk promised also that he will give $47 to anyone who finds a potential Trump voter in the Libra states. The seizure is used to collect people’s contact information for Trump’s campaign as the election day approaches.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal Musk began to fund Republicans in 2022. It is also the beginning of Musk’s political radicalization.
At the time, his transgender daughter Vivian Wilson20, publicly cut ties with her father.
Wilson changed her last name from Musk to her mother’s because she didn’t want people to associate her with her father, who she says was cruel and absent.
Musk said last summer in an interview that he was “tricked” into accepting 16-year-old Wilson’s gender reassignment. Musk said that he “lost his son” and that he then dedicated himself to destroying the “mind virus caused by Woke.”
Musk became closer to Republicans at the same time as his children became estranged from him. Musk had already supported the looser corona restrictions pushed by Republicans, and he also found critics of gender reassignment treatments on the right.
The messaging service Twitter, or the current X, was taken over by Musk in the fall of 2022. Musk’s messages quickly became more political and his opinions more radical.
Last month Musk shared To his 200 million followers, a text suggesting that women and testosterone-deficient men should not participate in social decision-making.
Musk also wonderedwhy no one tries to assassinate the president Joe Biden or the Democratic presidential candidate Terrible Harris. He later deleted this post.
This week, Musk said a right-wing media personality by Tucker Carlson in an interview that Trump’s loss would mean the end of American democracy. Musk has claimed without evidence that Democrats are driving voters into the country through the southern border.
In reality, only citizens are allowed to vote in the US presidential elections, and citizenship can only be applied for after living in the country for several years.
Musk is the most influential but not the only one A billionaire born in Silicon Valley who has turned into a Trump supporter over the years. Many of them estimate that Trump would lower the corporate tax rate and ease regulation.
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Musk cannot become president of the United States because he was born in South Africa.
If he could, he probably would. Now Trump is Musk’s best chance to get close to the highest political power.
Trump has already promised to establish a commission to evaluate the use of federal money and put Musk, who he calls “the best cutter in the world”, at its head.
However, Musk knows that the concept of loyalty is foreign to Trump. Trump would be ready to dump Musk as soon as he is no longer useful, perhaps as early as election day.
However, in addition to his billions, Musk is also able to offer Trump help through his messaging service.
For the past few days Musk has spread diligently spreading disinformation that the Biden administration is denying aid to hurricane-ravaged areas.
At no point has Trump promised to accept his possible future election defeat. Musk has already started sharing messages questioning the reliability of the elections.
After the last election, Trump spread lies about the tampered result most diligently on Twitter. After the Epiphany 2021 congress attack, he was banned from the service.
This time, after Election Day, Trump has an ally at the helm of the messaging service who is willing to spread Trump’s word.