Former President Donald Trump reportedly met with fellow billionaire Elon Musk in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
Mr. Trump met with Mr. Musk and a small number of Republican donors, but he hopes to have longer one-on-one meetings with the electric car and space giants in the future. Sources told the New York Times.
Details of the encounter were sparse.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk famously clashed in 2017, when the technology mogul withdrew from two business-related councils in protest of the then-president’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. did.
Musk has been a vocal critic of some of President Trump’s policies in the past.he publicly stated He said he supported President Biden over Trump in 2020 and expressed support for a candidate to replace Trump in the 2024 Republican primary.
“I didn’t vote for Donald Trump. Actually I voted for Biden. I’m not saying I’m a big fan of Biden, because I think that’s probably inaccurate,” Musk said. he told Fox News last year.
However, biographer Walter Isaacson refuted it in his book Musk reported that the mogul declined to vote because he “decided it would be a waste of time to go to the California polling place where he was registered at the time.”
Mr. Musk has clashed with Mr. Trump in the past, but if his frequent social media posts are any indication, he appears to have drifted to the right in recent years.
Musk also rails against progressive policies and takes special interest in immigration.
“Submitting huge numbers of illegals is why Secretary Mayorkas was impeached by the House of Representatives. They are importing voters. This is why far-left groups say they are protecting the right to vote. This is why we are fighting so hard to block voter ID requirements under an absurd name,” Musk posted on X early Tuesday morning.
Mr. Musk, himself a South African immigrant, has taken issue with the surge in illegal immigration to the United States.
In 2022, Musk spent a whopping $44 billion to buy Twitter and rebrand it as X. Musk claimed the acquisition was motivated by a desire to transform the microblogging platform into a bastion of free speech.
His Twitter takeover and constant conservative-tinged social media posts have made him a darling of the political right.
Musk also rejected some of Biden’s policies. Even though he visited the White House in September. According to the visitor log.
Meanwhile, President Trump is trying to drum up donors and build up his war chest in preparation for his expected rematch with Biden in just eight months.
It remains unclear whether Musk will open the safe to Trump or support him.
The newspaper has contacted the Trump campaign for comment.
