WASHINGTON: Might Elon Musk, who holds main sway within the incoming Trump administration, in the future change into president? On Sunday (Dec 22), Donald Trump answered with a powerful no, pointing to US guidelines about being born within the nation.
“He isn’t gonna be president, that I can let you know,” Trump advised a Republican convention in Phoenix, Arizona.
“You already know why he cannot be? He wasn’t born on this nation,” Trump mentioned of the Tesla and SpaceX boss, who was born in South Africa.
America Structure requires {that a} president be a natural-born US citizen.
Trump was responding to criticism, significantly from the Democratic camp, portraying the tech billionaire and world’s richest particular person as “President Musk” for the outsized function he’s taking part in within the incoming administration.
As per ceding the presidency to Musk, Trump additionally assured the gang: “No, no that is not occurring.”
