Elon Musk
Trump wants Elon Musk as an adviser
Nora Fernstedt
Updated 00.31 | Published 00.26
Twitter helped Trump win the 2016 election.
Now he is teaming up with the platform's new owner for his comeback.
According to reports, Trump wants to bring Elon Musk to the White House if he becomes president.
Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that Trump wants Elon Musk as an adviser if he is elected president this fall.
It is unclear exactly what role the Tesla billionaire and X owner would have. But according to people with insight, there is talk that Musk would have formal influence over issues related to border control and the economy.
Elon Musk has not officially endorsed Trump. But they reportedly met privately in Palm Beach last spring, when Trump tried to enlist him in his campaign.
Since then, the two have reportedly developed a closer relationship. According to sources, they call each other several times a month, discussing common interests such as immigration, electric cars, the US space force and Musk's various companies.
Banned from Twitter
Twitter, now X, has played a major role in Donald Trump's political career.
A massive social media campaign, in which many millions took part in Trump's prolific tweeting, led to the 2016 election win.
Just over four years later, he was suspended from the platform, just a couple of days after the storming of Congress when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the building in Washington in an attempt to stop the formal decision to seal Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Twitter considered the risk too great that Trump would continue to incite violence. At the time, he had 88.8 million followers.
Want Trump to be active on X
But when Elon Musk took over the platform in 2022, Trump had to come back. The decision was made after a day-long vote held on Musk's own Twitter feed.
By then, however, Trump's interest in Twitter had cooled – he has instead remained on his own platform Truth Social.
During their intensive contact in the spring, however, Musk is said to have asked Trump to become more active on X.
Project to "stop election fraud"
Elon Musk has been fluid in his political involvement, donating smaller amounts to both Democrats and Republicans in recent years.
But in May 2022, he suddenly announced that he would vote for the Republicans, because the Democrats had become "the party of hatred and division that he could not support".
In addition to discussing a possible role as an adviser, Musk is also said to have briefed Trump, along with well-known billionaire and investor Nelson Peltz, on a plan for a data-driven project to prevent election fraud.
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