According to the New York Times, the former president is looking for new donors for his campaign for the White House
According to the US press, former US President Donald Trump met with businessman Elon Musk on Sunday (March 3, 2024) in Palm Beach, Florida. The New York Times newspaper said it spoke to three people briefed on the matter who said some Republican Party donors also attended the meeting.
According to the publication, Trump is seeking additional donations for his campaign and hopes to meet with the billionaire in person soon. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index rankings, Musk has a net worth of $198 billion.
Musk has donated to Republican and Democratic candidates over the years. His companies like Tesla and SpaceX have benefited from federal government contracts and subsidies. SpaceX currently has a partnership with the North American space agency NASA
The businessman has already criticized both Trump and current US President Joe Biden. For example, in 2017, he said that Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement was bad for the country. At that time, he resigned from two corporate advisory boards.
“Climate change is real. Leave [o Acordo de] “Paris is not good for America or the world,” he wrote in his profile X (which was still called Twitter back then).
Most recently, Musk criticized the Biden administration's immigration policy. According to the billionaire, they would amount to “treason.”
He wrote in it X on Monday (March 4, 2024): “You [democratas] They import voters. This is why radical left groups are fighting so hard to abolish voter ID requirements under the absurd pretext of protecting the right to vote.”
A person close to Musk, who spoke to The New York Times on condition of anonymity, said that if the businessman supported Trump, his views on immigration were a key motivator.