However he appeared to have made the cash again already, after which some: Tesla shares soared within the hours after Trump’s victory, netting Musk some US$15 billion Wednesday morning, Forbes reported.
Musk on Wednesday shared a photograph on X displaying him with Trump at an election watch occasion in Florida, and the Republican candidate singled him out for a number of minutes throughout a celebratory speech, calling his mega backer a “tremendous genius”.
It isn’t but clear how the 2 mercurial, larger-than-life characters, who hardly knew one another months in the past, will gel as soon as they sit all the way down to get to enterprise.
Some predict the relationship will finish in acrimony given the sturdy personalities concerned, whereas others see Musk’s immense wealth and abilities as objects of admiration for Trump that may stay fixed.