US President-elect, Donald Trump has come out to dismiss speculation that Elon Musk would take over the presidency.
He recently had his say while speaking to a crowd of supporters, at an engagement at his Mar-A-Lago Estate, amid wide speculation that the world’s richest man would be the real force running the show behind the scene when Trump ascends the presidency again on January 20.
According to him, reports saying he has ceded the presidency to the billionaire entrepreneur are simply a lie spread by his political rivals, and that is never going to happen while he is in charge.
Trump then joked that Musk can’t even be America’s president because he was born in South Africa.
His words, “No, no. That’s not happening. He’s not gonna be president. You know why he can’t be president? He wasn’t born in this country.”
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1968. He became president of his father’s real-estate business in 1971 and renamed it the Trump Organization.
He expanded its operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses and later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name.
Elon Musk on the other hand was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. He is an actor and producer, known for Machete Kills (2013), Iron Man 2 (2010) and Why Him? (2016). He was previously married to Talulah Riley and Justine Musk.
He cofounded PayPal in 1998. He is CEO & Product Architect of Tesla Motors and CEO & CTO SpaceX.
He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 2014 and was the chairman of Solar City, which later merged into Tesla Inc. as a subsidiary.
He is the son of Maye Musk (Haldeman), a model and dietitian, and Errol Musk, an engineer. His father is South African-born and his mother is Canadian-born, from Regina, Saskatchewan, and also has American antecedents.
Elon is of mostly English descent, along with Afrikaner (largely French Huguenot, Dutch, German, and Belgian), Scottish, and German. His name comes from his maternal great-grandfather John Elon Haldeman, originally of Illinois.
