Might Elon Musk, who holds main sway within the incoming Trump administration, someday develop into president? On Sunday, Donald Trump answered with a powerful no, pointing to US guidelines about being born within the nation.
“He is not gonna be president, that I can inform you,” Trump advised a Republican convention in Phoenix, Arizona.
“You understand why he cannot be? He wasn’t born on this nation,” Trump stated of the Tesla and SpaceX boss, who was born in South Africa.
The US Structure requires {that a} president be a natural-born US citizen.
Trump was responding to criticism, notably from the Democratic camp, portraying the tech billionaire and world’s richest particular person as “President Musk” for the outsized function he’s enjoying within the incoming administration.
As per ceding the presidency to Musk, Trump additionally assured the group: “No, no that is not taking place.”
The affect of Musk, who will function Trump’s “effectivity czar,” has develop into a spotlight level for Democratic assaults, with questions raised over how an unelected citizen can wield a lot energy.
And there may be even rising anger amongst Republicans after Musk trashed a authorities funding proposal this week in a blizzard of posts — lots of them wildly inaccurate — to his greater than 200 million followers on his social media platform X.
Alongside Trump, Musk in the end helped stress Republicans to renege on a funding invoice they’d painstakingly agreed upon with Democrats, pushing america to the brink of budgetary paralysis that may have resulted in a authorities shutdown simply days earlier than Christmas.
Congress in the end reached an settlement in a single day Friday to Saturday, avoiding huge halts to authorities companies.
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