‘I’m calm, do you know why?’, the Republican asked the crowd. ‘It can’t be, he wasn’t born in this country’, he said during a rally in Arizona
The president of the United States, , said, this Sunday (22), that his ally, the South African billionaire, could not head the White House because he was “not born in this country”, when asked about the growing influence of the network’s owner X and Tesla. “You will not become president, I can assure you,” Trump said during a rally in Phoenix, Arizona. “I’m calm, do you know why?”, he asked the crowd. “It can’t be, he wasn’t born in this country,” added the Republican about the executive director of , born in South Africa and naturalized American.
“I like to be with intelligent people”, continued Trump, assuring that Musk was not in the process of “claiming the Presidency”. Trump was responding to criticism, especially from Democrats, who in recent days portrayed the richest man in the world as “President Musk”, given his level of influence in the president-elect’s political environment. This week, the businessman, in charge of an extra-governmental mission to deregulate and reduce public spending, appeared to set the tone for the political agenda. Musk, who has more than 200 million followers on his X account, criticized a budget bill. “This bill should not be approved,” he commented.
Trump followed suit, bringing the United States to the brink of budget shutdown, the so-called “shutdown”, on the eve of Christmas. Congress reached a last-minute deal on Friday night.
*With information from AFP
Published by Matheus Lopes
