“By knowing Elon in the way I know him, I think he wants to do everything to harm the president.”
So in a recent interview with a former friend and former colleague Elon Musk, Philip Low, who knows Tesla and Spacex Tycoon for 14 years. Police countryHuman
The remarks appeared to be renewed with Donald Trump with Donald Trump with Donald Trump with Donald Trump’s attack on Trump’s “Big Bill” and threatening to form a new political party with Donald Trump.
Trump responded in kindness and stated that he “will take a look at” Mack’s citizenship and “he” may have to put a dog on Elun. ”
As Independent Last month, there are many ways that Trump can try to harm musk, from targeting companies with federal research to exile or even criminal investigations.
But musk is not without a game card. Through the widespread wealth, the commercial empire, and his ability to support online online, he makes many ways to live for his first “friend”.
So if the richest person in the world really wants this struggle, what kind of fist can he throw?
Hose money for Trump’s opponents
The first and most striking weapon in the Maskan arsenal is his widespread wealth: according to $ 405 billion. ForbesHuman
In the 2024 election, Mossak plowed $ 295 million to support Republican candidates, mainly Trump himself. This is a great deal in American politics, but this is a rich change in today’s mega.
For the text, in the total years of 2023 and 2024, the total amount of money collected by all presidential candidates was just $ 2 billion. Congressors raised $ 3.8 billion, while PACS gathered $ 15.7 billion more respectable.
It will not be trivial for Elon Mask, because, like many rich people in the world, his wealth is tied to stocks that cannot be easily evacuated at once. However, based on Wednesday’s share price, he could pay the entire 2024 election cycle by dissolving only one fifth of his $ 130 billion shares in Tesla.
We already have the feeling of how musk may use this money. “Every member of the congress working to reduce government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history, they should hang their heads with shame! And if this is the last thing I do on this land, they will lose their next year,” he said.
He has suggested that he has donated Trump’s Republican Representative Thomas Messi. And there is still another $ 100 million of musk that had previously promised Trump that he could decide to use it.
He can even pay the Democrats, which he will probably get (though Trump has threatened “serious consequences” in that scenario). They, they are politicians.
Billions of Musk can also fund the creation of a new political party. Although the first US post election system means that third -party seats in Congress are almost impossible, they can still leave leech from the mainstream of the vote.
The concept that 80 % of the United States agrees with its beliefs seems to be separated from reality. Nitu Silver, a voting expert, puts his or her net favorable rating with an average of -18 %, which is significantly worse than Trump himself.
Of course, money is not everything – as Mask himself realized that his effort to change the Wisconsin Supreme Court elections fell in March and April. Fortunately for him, this is not his only property.
Mask’s character from his rivals Trump
The overall popularity of the mask may have declined dramatically since the election. But his stretching with Republican voters, especially since early June, was still very high.
This testimony is about his ability to build and maintain a fanatical fan. Like Trump, he is struggling to inspire his fans’ loyalty and whip against new goals as well as a severe instinct for controversy.
And as well as Trump, he does not need to be popular in all Americans to cause problems for his enemies. He only needs enough dedicated partisans on his side.
“Elvan has won enough of Trump’s supporters to be a real political threat,” said Mask’s old friend Philip Lau. Police countryHuman beings[Trump] He does not understand the battle he has on his hands. “
Mask’s ownership of X, which was previously Twitter, will help him there. Formerly turning the social network into a polar world of the Maga Media – and reportedly changed his algorithms in favor of his posts – he now has a huge control over conservative information.
Given that many Americans are currently essentially living in a parallel media world, maintained by fake news and social media algorithms, it affects him that Trump’s basis even believes that it is reality.
Awarded, Trump is still the ruler of GOP. And when polls directly pit against Trump, Republican voters are mainly withdrawn with the king. However, a combination of Mask’s financial capital of financial and social capital, he hopes to draw his path to a powerful ally for anyone in the party.
There are a large number of people in Congress who do not always support Trump, with one eye to the majority of its purple government, to their centrality, to their centrality, to their centrality. Musk can strengthen and maintain them and help them resist the work of Saeron, which Trump traditionally attaches to beat his coalition.
The impact of musk passes through countries and industries
Other threats are more esoteric. NASA will be very stuck without Spacex, which is currently the only reliable method for astronaut wrestling to the International Space Station. The Musk Starlink satellite trade by governments and military worldwide, including some US agencies, trusts it.
He also has a serious fan in China-and has good relations with the Chinese Communist Party, with the help of Kickstart of the leading electric car industry in China. One user on the Chinese social network Weibo said on Wednesday, “Moscow’s brother, you have over a billion people with us.”
Of all, he has information. Musque spent months in the heart of the Trump administration and attended cabinet meetings and carried out very controversial projects. What may he have learned at the time or witness that he can harm political Trump?
When Mesak accused Trump of “being in the Epashtin case”, we tasted it. This is not something new: We know since 2015 that Trump was in Jeffrey’s address (which is not evidence of violation), and his relationship with child capitalist has long been documented.
However, as Trump knows very well, in today’s politics the truth only can connect to a pale claim.
None of these factors are a immersion for musk. The conversion of his Mujahideen as a non -political commercial genius has destroyed his former fame and blocked his image among democratic voters.
Participation in politics only makes investors uncomfortable about his ability to focus on Tesla and Spacex. Trying to throw the soil on Trump can also tempt revenge in its kind, which can be dangerous given a wide range of claims about the personal life of the mask.
Most importantly, for misunderstanding from the early nineteenth -century author, Hiller Block looks like musk: Whatever happens, Trump has taken the tips, and that is not the musk.
Then again, when did the certainty close to the undesirable consequences ever stopped Elon Maskak?
