Trump Confirms He Recently Met Elon Musk

Written by Jack Phillips on March 14, 2024. Posted in Current News

Former President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he met with Elon Musk but said he’s not sure if the billionaire Tesla CEO will back his reelection bid

Last week, several media outlets reported that the pair met at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, although few details have been released.

Those reports claimed that President Trump held the meeting due to his campaign’s alleged cashflow issues and because of his mounting legal fees.

“I don’t know. I’ve been friendly with him over the years,” President Trump told CNBC. “I’ve helped him; when I was president I, helped him. I’ve liked him. We obviously have opposing views on a minor subject called electric cars,” he added. “I’m all for electric cars, but you have to have all the alternatives also.”

After the reports surfaced, in post on X, Mr. Musk wrote that he would not be donating money to either presidential campaign.

“Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President,” Mr. wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, in a post last week. He did not confirm whether he met with the former president.

Since purchasing the social media website in 2022, Mr. Musk has removed suspensions for a number of prominent conservatives, including President Trump’s account after it was banned in January 2021.

But President Trump has not returned to X, where he used his account extensively during the 2016 election. The only post he’s made in more than three years was in 2023 when he posted his mugshot after being arrested in Fulton County, Georgia. Instead, he frequently uses his own platform Truth Social.

While Mr. Musk wrote that he voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, he told his followers to vote for Republicans during the 2022 midterm elections, he also signaled that he would do the same in 2024.

On X, the Tesla CEO has also boosted some conservative accounts and has increasingly expressed critical views of the Biden administration, and, like President Trump, he has been highly critical of illegal immigration.

In a recent post, Mr. Musk warned that the surge of illegal crossings at the U.S.–Mexico border is a national security issue and could lead to “something far worse” than the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead.

Earlier this year, he visited the southern border in September and revealed he saw “pretty extreme” numbers of people illegally entering the United States. In a live stream from the Texas town of Eagle Pass, he told viewers that he saw a man entering the United States with teardrop tattoos on his face.

Over the years, there have been rumors that gang members and members of prison gangs receive a teardrop tattoo near their eye for every person they have allegedly murdered. Mr. Musk referred to this, saying that it “means they have murdered someone and they are so proud of having murdered someone that they tattoo one tear on their face for every one person that they killed.”

In another instance this year, the X owner referred to reports of a yellow school bus being used to transport illegal immigrants near Brooklyn’s James Madison High School.

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