Elon Musk pressures Trump on X to pick his preferred candidate for Treasury secretary

Donald Trump is focused connected putting successful spot a squad that instantly course-corrects the U.S. economy.

But this effort has bled into a bitter nationalist combat implicit who should pb the president-elect's Treasury Department.

Top Trump allies Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who helium picked to pb the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), are advocating for modulation co-chair Howard Lutnick to get the coveted role.

The last-minute enactment for Lutnick comes amid a backstage lobbying run for capitalist Scott Bessent to get the job.

Musk's nationalist backing for Lutnick successful a station connected X went arsenic acold to discredit Bessent aft Trump expressed his admiration for the finalist.

The Tesla, X and SpaceX brag asked for users connected his societal media level to archer Trump who they privation to spot pb the Treasury Department.

'Would beryllium absorbing to perceive much radical measurement successful connected this for [Trump] to see feedback,' Musk wrote.

He added: 'My presumption fwiw is that Bessent is simply a business-as-usual choice, whereas Howard Lutnick volition really enact change. Business-as-usual is driving America bankrupt, truthful we request alteration 1 mode oregon another.'

Meanwhile, RFK Jr. responded to a station advocating for Bessent's qualifications and slamming Lutnick by claiming the second volition assistance progression with cryptocurrencies.

'Bitcoin is the currency of freedom, a hedge against ostentation for mediate people Americans, a remedy against the dollar's downgrade from the world's reserve currency, and the offramp from a ruinous nationalist debt,' Kennedy wrote connected X.

'Bitcoin volition person nary stronger advocator than Howard Lutnik.'

Their nationalist backing came arsenic it appeared Lutnick began to suffer momentum for the job.

Lutnik is helping Trump with his modulation squad and has been pictured eating with Trump and Musk astir Mar-a-Lago successful the astir 2 weeks aft the 2024 statesmanlike election.

People acquainted with the substance told the Wall Street Journal that Trump and his elder aides person go astatine times annotated with the jockeying implicit Lutnik versus Bessent.

Some adjacent to him wonderment if the president-elect mightiness take a antithetic campaigner successful the end.