WASHINGTON: May Elon Musk, who holds main sway within the incoming Trump administration, at some point develop into president? On Sunday (Dec 22), Donald Trump answered with a powerful no, pointing to US guidelines about being born within the nation.
“He is not gonna be president, that I can let you know,” Trump informed a Republican convention in Phoenix, Arizona.
“You recognize why he cannot be? He wasn’t born on this nation,” Trump stated 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 individual as “President Musk” for the outsized function he’s enjoying within the incoming administration.
As per ceding the presidency to Musk, Trump additionally assured the gang: “No, no that is not occurring.”