'I wouldn't call it eugenics as such': How Musk might influence Trump policy

The confederation betwixt Donald Trump and Elon Musk framed the 2024 predetermination and their enslaved has lone deepened since.

Musk has been a regular fixture astatine the president-elect's Florida mansion and the brace person introduced their families.

He has been privy to telephone conversations with satellite leaders, consulted with Trump connected his furniture picks and adjacent hosted him astatine Space X for the launch of the Starship rocket.

Musk volition co-chair the caller Department of Government Efficiency, charged with cutting authorities spending.

But however mightiness the entrepreneur's different views impact Trump policy?

The origin closest to Musk's bosom is pronatalism, a pro-birth governmental and idiosyncratic ideology successful which reproduction is the cardinal extremity of humanity.

Musk regularly posts connected societal media with fears astir colonisation decline, sometimes bordering connected obsession.

"Population illness is coming... Earth is astir bare of humans," helium wrote recently.

"Instead of teaching fearfulness of gestation we should thatch fearfulness of childlessness," helium added.

The frequence of these posts has accrued successful caller months.

Musk has astatine slightest 11 children, by 3 antithetic women. Some of them person spent clip with him successful caller weeks astatine Donald Trump's home.

Few recognize the root of Musk's pro-birth views amended than his ain father, Errol Musk - an technologist and businessman from South Africa, who has a strained narration with his son.

I talk to Errol connected a video telephone from his location adjacent Cape Town.

"Elon doesn't effort to propulsion his sentiment across, but helium volition person an opinion," helium says.

Errol has 7 children himself, ranging successful property from Elon astatine 53 to his youngest daughter, who is five. He's besides a pro-natalist.

"We're not present to bask boating oregon flying oregon skiing oregon kite surfing, oregon something," helium says.

"We are present to proceed being here. We should each beryllium disquieted astir declining populations, immoderate state with immoderate manufacture should beryllium worried."

Certain countries - similar the United States, United Kingdom and Japan - bash person ageing populations. But my speech with Errol besides reveals views which veer toward selective breeding.

I inquire him astir a remark Elon reportedly made to a biographer respective years ago. Musk Jr seemingly said: "If each successive procreation of astute radical has less kids, past that's astir apt bad."

I inquire Errol Musk if that viewpoint is bordering connected eugenics.

"I wouldn't telephone it eugenics arsenic such, but each federation has practiced a definite signifier of endurance of the fittest.

"One request lone spell to England and spell to the Cheltenham area, the equine breeding area, and say, 'Look, we're not going to breed the horses anymore by immoderate signifier of standard. I've got a fewer aged horses I've recovered successful Nigeria and we're going to conscionable premix them with your contention horses…'

"They'll say, no, no, no, no, no," helium added.

A much sanitised mentation of pro-family authorities took centre signifier connected the run trail.

At a rally, Donald Trump declared himself "the begetter of fertilisation" and vowed to marque in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) escaped for anyone who needs it.

Sky News has been invited wrong an IVF session successful California, the satellite superior for fertility.

The fertility institute is successful the Encino country of Los Angeles and allows patients to take the oculus colour of their babe arsenic good arsenic its gender.

Dr Jeffrey Steinberg was among the archetypal fertility doctors to connection sex selection. He is taking aboriginal President Trump's pledge to connection escaped IVF astatine look value.

"Donald Trump for amended oregon for worse, tends to support his word. And the benignant of the pooh-poohing of what helium was saying... I deliberation it's vanished due to the fact that they're realising that it's astir apt going to happen. So each the fertility centres are gearing up for a immense surge."

Elon Musk has donated millions of dollars to fertility research.

"Musk is simply a technocrat," Dr Steinberg says. "He's an intelligence genius successful aggregate areas. And everything helium touches seems to crook to gold.

"There's not overmuch that evolves arsenic rapidly arsenic Musk's technology. But IVF has done that, and I deliberation he's going to find that precise attractive."

While espousing his pronatalist views, Musk is navigating his ain analyzable household dynamic.

In the hills extracurricular Austin, Texas, determination are rumours he's bought a multi-million-dollar compound to location immoderate of his children and their mothers together, with his ain spot 10 minutes away.

Musk denies this is true.

But soon helium could beryllium helping to plan household argumentation crossed the country.