How Elon Musk will ‘become most powerful man in world’ if Trump wins election from military deals to cabinet position

ELON Musk is acceptable to go the astir almighty antheral connected the satellite if Donald Trump wins the US election, it has been claimed.

The richest antheral successful the world has emerged arsenic a unsocial power connected the predetermination run - and has go the biggest cheerleader for foe-turned-pal Trump.

Musk, who has been dubbed Trump's "shadow vice president", has gone all successful to enactment and run for the erstwhile president.

Not lone has helium go a mega-donor for the Republican nominee, pumping millions of dollars into the GOP campaign, but besides a societal media strategist and a PR adept who has been moving to beforehand Trump's MAGA agenda.

But this improbable bromance could beryllium a stepping chromatic for Musk, 53, to go the astir almighty idiosyncratic connected the planet, experts said.

Dr Alan Mendoza, governmental adept and enforcement manager of starring Brit deliberation vessel Henry Jackson Society, said helium seeks to go almighty successful some concern and politics.

He told The Sun: "There's intelligibly a powerfulness origin progressive here.

"If you've got power of important communications and means of communications and you've past got a affable president who's consenting to springiness you a propulsion connected immoderate you are doing, that gives you tremendous powerfulness successful the concern arsenic good arsenic the governmental world.

"That is the stake Elon Musk is making. It's a stake helium thinks he'll win."

For Musk, who owns respective influential companies including X and SpaceX, a Trump triumph could springiness him much power - and powerfulness - implicit these institutions.

David Richards, a seasoned US governmental analyst, said Musk is helping Trump astatine the past infinitesimal to summation immense advantages for his businesses should helium win. 

He told The Sun: "It is simply a mode for Musk to summation immoderate power should Trump triumph the election.

"He tin beryllium 1 of those radical who has Trump's receptor which could assistance his concern potentially.

"He volition summation an vantage successful presumption of regulations, successful presumption of however the authorities and businesses coexist, and particularly his businesses.

"He has had occupation successful the past with Tesla moving into regulations and issues. Some things with Twitter person besides caused a fewer ruffles of feathers.

"So helium thinks if helium is connected the inside, helium tin forestall a batch of those conflicts from happening.

"In the agelong term, helium could get nonstop payment from [more] authorities contracts for SpaceX and immoderate of his different ventures.

"He wants to marque definite helium is archetypal successful enactment and seen arsenic a trustworthy and perchance utile state to the Trump administration." 

Trump adjacent promised Musk a accidental to tally the US government's ratio programme - a determination that could perchance let the Tesla brag to instrumentality connected the regulators helium is often successful struggle with and make conditions that favour him and his businesses.

If true, Musk would nonstop a task unit to behaviour a "complete fiscal and show audit of the full national government", offering “recommendations for drastic reforms”.

But beyond a occupation successful the administration, a Trump triumph mightiness besides springiness Musk a accidental to power geopolitics.

Through SpaceX and Starlink, Musk has a scope to cardinal strategical and subject assets - and his contracts with NASA and the Pentagon are progressively exposing him to cross-border powers beyond conscionable business.

SpaceX, which operates Starlink, struck a $1.8billion concealed woody successful 2021.

In a caller property release, the US Navy confirmed it was utilizing Starlink on ships for the net itself.

Musk tin supply net entree to virtually immoderate portion of the satellite utilizing a immense web of satellites that helium controls, but tin besides power them disconnected astatine whim.

In 2023, helium chopped disconnected Starlink's net entree during a Ukrainian raid connected the Russian military.

Justifying his decision, helium wrote connected X: "There was an exigency petition from authorities authorities to activate Starlink each the mode to Sevastopol.

“The evident intent was to descend astir of the Russian fleet astatine anchor. If I had agreed to their request, past SpaceX would beryllium explicitly complicit successful a large enactment of warfare and struggle escalation."

But Musk's scope to planetary leaders - particularly his concealed talks with tyrant Vladimir Putin - shows the imaginable of his untapped powers and influence.

Putin, who is said to person held respective concealed talks with the Tesla boss, asked him to not o.k. the usage of Starlink for Taiwan arsenic a favour to Xi past year, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Such benignant of powers are usually vested successful the state, but successful Musk's case, they person been privatised.

And it whitethorn not instrumentality agelong for Musk to scope a constituent wherever helium holds sway implicit planetary leaders.

Brit writer George Monbiot says that "a ballot for Donald Trump is besides a ballot for Elon Musk".

He wrote successful a file for The Guardian: "Musk could beryllium utilizing Trump arsenic a springboard to possibly adjacent greater powerfulness than the US president tin wield."

FOE-TURNED-PAL

But Musk was not ever a Trump fan.

In fact, helium claimed to person supported the Democrats erstwhile Joe Biden ran for bureau successful 2020.

And conscionable 2 years ago, the tech mogul called for Trump to measurement down from authorities aft a nationalist feud.

However, erstwhile Trump survived a shocking assassination attempt earlier this twelvemonth portion campaigning successful Pennsylvania, the Tesla brag pledged to enactment Trump to go the 47th president of America.

And since then, the billionaire has utilized each assets astatine his disposal to assistance him triumph the elections.

He has splashed millions of dollars into financing on-the-ground operations and media campaigns for the erstwhile president.

Musk has invested a whopping $130 cardinal successful pro-Trump ace governmental enactment committee (PAC) successful the 3 months up to the extremity of September.

He was the sole donor of the spending radical successful that period.

And past month, helium pledged to springiness payouts of $1million a time to a registered elector successful cardinal plaything states until the US statesmanlike election.

He claimed winners volition beryllium chosen astatine random from those who motion a pro-US Constitution petition by Mr Musk’s run radical America PAC.

And beyond splashing an unfathomable magnitude of money, Musk's astir disposable enactment for Trump takes spot connected X - the world's astir influential societal media level - which helium bought successful 2022 for $44billion.

His relationship presently has much than 200 cardinal progressive followers.

Reports suggest that Musk, who claims to enactment escaped speech, asked institution bosses to re-engineer the algorithm of the exertion to boost the visibility of his tweets beyond different accounts.

He has present turned his relationship into a propaganda machine, relentlessly pushing retired tweets that are often filled with disinformation and misinformation.

The tech mogul's provender is heavy marked by praise for Trump and a divisive hatred against Harris - and has go a root governmental deepfakes that are believed to person the imaginable to power a ample fig of people.

And it was Musk who decided to reconstruct Trump to the societal web successful precocious 2022 aft his relationship was banned successful the archetypal place.

'SHADOW VICE PRESIDENT'

Dr Mendoza said: "Through his schemes trying to target plaything State voters and Twitter's caller algorithms that person a monolithic reach, Musk has shown the magnitude of power helium has.

"He's connected a precise antithetic level to what we've ever seen earlier successful presumption of 1 person's quality to power an election."

The governmental adept besides dubbed Musk arsenic "Trump's 2nd enactment wife" who has been campaigning relentlessly to marque him win.

He added that the tech brag has a bigger illustration than JD Vance and has an tremendous magnitude of increasing power that could person a sway implicit the masses.

"Elon Musk has a bigger illustration than JD Vance and that's rather obvious. He is truthful invested successful the campaign, it is surely arsenic if helium has got a 2nd wife," Dr Mendoza said.

"I deliberation what Musk is doing for the Trump run is precise adjuvant to it. He is the Shadow Vice President who's retired connected the stump."

David Richards added: "Musk has travel successful astatine the close infinitesimal with millions of dollars and a large apparatus.

"He has thrown his ain radical down arsenic overmuch arsenic helium tin and done a monolithic restructuring to marque Trump's campaign more efficient. 

"Trump recognizes what Musk brings to the array truthful adjacent if it means putting up him and his demands, helium volition not spot it arsenic a occupation but lone benefit."