{"id":226533,"date":"2024-05-31T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/elon-musk-considered-for-donald-trump-white-house-role\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:19","slug":"elon-musk-considered-for-donald-trump-white-house-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/elon-musk-considered-for-donald-trump-white-house-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk &#8216;considered for Donald Trump White House role&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aimusk-900x514.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Donald Trump is reportedly considering a White House advisory role for Elon Musk should he win another term and become President of the United States once more.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/donald-trump-elon-musk-alliance-d1fe43e3?st=9yxpd5bdztmi6pf\">the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the billionaires have discussed a possible role for the Tesla CEO and are said to have spoken over several phone calls after connecting at the estate of businessman and investor Nelson Pelz.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the CEO of Tesla said he wouldn\u2019t be donating money to either Republican presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/donald-trumps-net-worth-soars-to-6-5bn-after-media-group-merger\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> or Democratic President Joe Biden in this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>This came after Trump had met with Musk and other wealthy individuals to seek a cash infusion for his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Musk took to his social media platform X to say: \u201cJust to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1765397025967710542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report says the Tesla CEO reportedly told Trump he plans to host gatherings to dissuade wealthy and powerful allies from supporting Joe Biden in November.<\/p>\n<p>While the pair hasn\u2019t always had a harmonious relationship with digs being thrown at each other in previous years, the relations seem to have softened in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk reinstated the Republican candidate\u2019s Twitter\/X account and has even asked him to be more active on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Musk and Trump have had meetings before. In March it was believed the pair had met to discuss if Musk would purchase the former <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/trump-asked-elon-musk-if-he-wanted-to-buy-truth-social-says-report\/\">President\u2019s Truth Social network.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Could Donald Trump become president again?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>This report was published on Wednesday, just two days before Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.<\/p>\n<p>He is now due to be sentenced on 11 July. The historic case is the first time a former or serving US president has been convicted of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>His team says they are planning to appeal against the verdicts which could delay the sentencing, with some experts suggesting this could take place after the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the convictions, he is still able to run for the presidency in the November 5 elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Featured Image: Via Midjourney<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/elon-musk-considered-for-donald-trump-white-house-role\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Donald Trump is reportedly considering a White House advisory role for Elon Musk should he win another term and become President of the United<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}