International Courant
Elon Musk is toasting Donald Trump’s overcome Kamala Harris in attribute type — by tweeting memes and emojis.
The proprietor of X (previously Twitter) has arguably been Trump’s highest-profile and most influential backer within the last months of the marketing campaign, utilizing his monumental platform to stoke the fires of MAGA help.
Now, after Trump’s victory has all however been confirmed, Musk is reveling within the glory by declaring that America is a liberated nation and imagining himself within the White Home.
“America is a nation of builders. Quickly, you may be free to construct,” he wrote in a message that’s pinned on the high of his X profile, the place he has practically 204M followers.
In one other message, he wrote: “We are going to free the large that’s America. Too lengthy, it has been tied down, like Gulliver, with thousands and thousands of little strings.”
Musk, one of many richest males on the earth due to his management of Tesla, posted a meme of himself within the Oval Workplace with the caption: “Let that sink in.”
The picture was a callback to his takeover of Twitter, when he entered the Silicon Valley firm’s headquarters carrying the lavatory fixture.
Musk additionally shared a put up that branded him “CTO of the USA.” It was accompanied by an image of Trump and Musk locked in dialogue at an election night time occasion.
It’s not clear if Musk will take up a proper function in Trump’s White Home administration. The incoming president has mentioned he’d like Musk to be his “secretary of cost-cutting” but additionally “not within the cupboard.”
His place as an advisor to Trump appears assured, nonetheless, and this might afford him vital affect over home and world affairs, in addition to representing a boon for his enterprise pursuits.
Musk mentioned the individuals of America had given Trump a “crystal clear mandate for change tonight.” It additionally represents a defacto endorsement for Musk and the “free speech absolutist” social media platform he’s re-engineering in his picture.
