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It’s not inconceivable for the world’s richest man to pull just a few strings with top politicians, but Elon Musk seems to have thrown himself into the political world with great enthusiasm. Lists now suspect they have bigger plans.
Last week, Elon Musk made history by becoming the first person with a net worth of over $400 billion, breaking his previous record. It has added nearly $100 billion ($86 billion) more in just six days and is on track to hit the $500 billion mark. Over the past year, Musk has increased his net worth by $257 billion. That’s $7 billion more than the entire net worth of Jeff Bezos, the world’s second-richest person.
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But Musk isn’t just riding waves on the business front, he’s doing the same in geopolitics. Embedded in Trump Administration 2.0, Elon Musk is immersed in the world of politics. He is deeply involved in Donald Trump’s campaign and is credited with partially contributing to Trump’s victory in the US election, but is currently assisting leaders outside the US. , or rather it seems to be having an influence.
US done, masks focus on UK
From backing one incendiary leader to backing another in the UK, Elon Musk has had extensive talks with anti-immigration hardliner Nigel Farage. Discussions between the two sides focused mainly on Mr Musk’s funding of Mr Farage’s far-right party Reform UK.
Elon Musk is currently free to use Donald Trump’s Florida resort and residence, Mar-a-Lago, as a political office, and earlier this week he invited Nigel Farage to a meeting. .
Writing about the matter in the British daily The Telegraph, Mr Farage admitted that “financial matters were discussed”, but by the end of the talks no agreement had been reached on the amount in question. Mr Farage added: “There will be ongoing negotiations on that score.”
Farage, in sharing details of the meeting, is sure to raise eyebrows in the UK’s two major party offices – Labor, which is currently in power, and the Conservative Party, which is currently in opposition. He spoke of his disdain for both parties. He said Musk “described Labor and the Conservative Party as a single party, leaving us (the Reform Party) with no doubt that he was right behind us.”
Farage also said in the article that he aims to learn from Elon Musk’s cash incentives to encourage people to vote, a strategy that worked for Donald Trump’s Republican Party during the US election. Mr Farage said: “I’ve come back with a bunch of notes about how turnout, voter registration and so on have increased. We’re going to do all of this as part of the professionalisation of the party.”
Elon Musk is reportedly considering making an initial $100 million donation to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. Mr Farage told the BBC: “He wants to help us. He is not opposed to the idea of giving us money if he can do it legally through a British company.”
For Farage’s party to even consider winning a general election in the UK will be a tall order. In the most recent election this year, the Reform Party won just five seats in Britain’s 650-member parliament. However, it achieved an astonishing performance in terms of vote share, accounting for 14% of the total votes cast. Mr Farage hopes that with Mr Musk’s moral and financial support, his party may be able to do the unthinkable.
Farage concluded his article by saying: “It’s heartening to hear Elon talk about British politics with such care. He believes the English-speaking country is in very deep trouble. I am,” he wrote.
After the meeting, Mr Farage wrote on Mr Musk’s social media platform
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2024
Elon Musk speaks by phone with Ukraine’s Zelensky
Last month, during a telephone conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Elon Musk met Donald Trump at the president-elect’s official residence and luxury resort, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. I was with Mr.
During the call, Donald Trump reportedly handed the phone to Elon Musk and asked the SpaceX founder to join him on the call with President Zelenskiy.
Elon Musk then reassured President Zelenskiy that he would continue to support Ukraine through the Starlink satellite constellation. Since the 2022 invasion of Russia, Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system has given Ukraine a major front-line advantage by allowing the Ukrainian military to share real-time drone coordinates, data and footage between units. Ta. Ukrainian military communications support was also provided in areas where mobile phone networks were destroyed.
Friendship with Argentina’s Javier Millay
Argentina’s President Javier Millay was reportedly one of the few world leaders invited to President Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 2025, and the president reportedly accepted the invitation. There is. Elon Musk is a very strong supporter of President Milais.
In fact, in a video uploaded by Elon Musk himself to social media platform .
Elon Musk even met with President Milais when his election victory was confirmed. Before the meeting, Musk wrote in a post on X: “Prosperity awaits Argentina.”
It should be noted that Argentina has large reserves of lithium, which is crucial for Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla.
CNN reports that Elon Musk has been meeting with at least a dozen world leaders for geopolitical as well as business reasons.
Time will tell whether Elon Musk’s political activities will be limited to simply pulling a few strings, or whether he will take the very reins that could reshape world politics. Probably.
