Will Elon Musk join Donald Trump’s new administration?

Elon Musk’s translation of X, formerly Twitter, into a governmental instrumentality supporting Donald Trump could spot the billionaire rewarded with a spot successful the president-elect’s caller administration.

The SpaceX brag has go Trump’s astir vocal instrumentality and 1 of his biggest fiscal backers during the US election, which has seen X go an unofficial Republican Party run tool.

Musk’s power has been truthful stark that, successful his code to supporters connected predetermination nighttime successful the US aft helium declared victory, Trump paid a lengthy tribute to Musk, calling him a “star” of the Republican Party and a “wonderful” guy.

Musk has posted relentlessly astir his enactment for Trump to his hundreds of millions of followers successful the run-up to the election, claiming the aboriginal of civilisation was astatine involvement astatine the polls.

The Tesla and SpaceX brag has appeared astatine respective Trump rallies, arsenic good arsenic pumping millions of dollars into run groups supporting the Republican nominee, and backing arguable sweepstakes successful plaything states that required radical to registry to ballot and motion a pro-Trump petition successful bid to beryllium eligible.

Alongside thousands of pro-Trump messages, Musk’s X account, and those of galore of his ain astir ardent fans, person besides promoted conspiracy theories and misinformation astir the cardinal predetermination issues, arsenic good arsenic the Democratic Party and its candidates, often receiving millions of views.

Such has been the swell and relentlessness of the enactment from Musk that Trump has suggested the tech brag could beryllium fixed a relation successful his caller furniture astir cost-cutting oregon authorities ratio – a relation Musk had antecedently called to beryllium created to assistance trim authorities spending.

The attack to Trump from societal media, and specifically X, has been successful stark opposition to the 2020 election, erstwhile his posts were regularly fact-checked oregon flagged arsenic misinformation earlier and aft the election, earlier yet being banned from Twitter – arsenic it was past – and different sites for what they said were regularisation breaches astir inciting the unit astatine the US Capitol connected January 6.

That prohibition would stay successful spot connected Twitter until Musk bought the level 2 years later.

Musk’s absorption of X has been highly controversial, ever since helium instrumentality power of the level successful precocious 2022.

As good arsenic changing its name, the Tesla and SpaceX brag dismissed much than fractional the platform’s staff, dismantled its contented moderation team, unopen down its spot and information council, ripped up its verification strategy and restored accounts to hundreds of users who had antecedently been banned for breaching tract rules, crucially, including the antheral who is astir to instrumentality to the White House.

Having antecedently described himself arsenic a “moderate Democrat”, Musk said successful 2022 helium was shifting to voting Republican and has since gradually upped his enactment for Trump portion criticising the Biden administration.

It has led to the heavy Musk-backed Republican summons taking backmost the White House.

Now, Musk finds himself uniquely positioned arsenic a almighty state to the adjacent president, capable to sway a ample online level with a azygous post, a benignant of powerfulness Trump knows the worth of, having forged his governmental vocation done the scope of societal media.