Increasingly Powerful and Influential, Will Elon Musk Become the True 47th President of the United States?

Underlying question: how long will the Trump-Musk Bromance withstand their respective outsized egos?

Faced with growing criticism of Elon Musk's increasingly important role on both the American national and international stage, Donald Trump, the (real) future president of the United States, felt compelled to state the obvious at a meeting in Arizona:

“Elon Musk will not be president, I can tell you that. And I'm safe. You know why he can't be? He wasn't born in this country.”

This was a no-brainer, given that Elon Musk was born in South Africa and the rules are clear in America: to be eligible for election as president, you must have been born on American soil.

Nevertheless, Elon Musk's omnipresence seems to worry even the Republican camp. Although it's not a new phenomenon, it has become much more pronounced since Elon Musk was given an extra-governmental mission to deregulate and reduce public spending in the future Trump administration.

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By now, it's clear to everyone that Elon Musk is no longer “just” a billionaire, but wants much more than that. As the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk uses his economic power more than ever to shape the political narrative. Elon Musk influences, without limit, the course of history on the right side of the political spectrum.