{"id":29915,"date":"2024-03-06T03:57:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T10:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blinkbargain.com\/blog\/elon-musk-meets-with-donald-trump-in-florida-as-2024-election-looms-report\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T03:57:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T10:57:36","slug":"elon-musk-meets-with-donald-trump-in-florida-as-2024-election-looms-report","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/blinkbargain.com\/blog\/elon-musk-meets-with-donald-trump-in-florida-as-2024-election-looms-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Meets With Donald Trump in Florida as 2024 Election Looms: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elon Musk<\/a><\/span> met with Donald Trump in Florida this past Sunday, according to a new report from the New York Times<\/a><\/span>. And while it\u2019s not clear what the two men discussed, news of the meeting comes as Musk has ratcheted up his rhetoric against illegal immigration and Trump looks for new sources of cash<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Times report doesn\u2019t name a source for the meeting but cites \u201cthree people briefed on the meeting.\u201d An account that tracks Musk\u2019s jet on the social media platform BlueSky shows he landed in West Palm Beach<\/a><\/span> on Saturday, March 2, and left the next day<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n

Musk previously claimed that he\u2019d never voted for a Republican before 2022<\/a><\/span>, which heavily suggests he never voted for Trump either in 2016 or 2020. But Musk has fully embraced Republican politics in recent years, even if he\u2019s kept Trump at an arm\u2019s length at times. <\/p>\n

Musk was an early advocate for Vivek Ramaswamy to become the Republican nominee for president, though Ramaswamy dropped out of the race back in mid-January. Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and long-shot candidate, never put up much of a fight against Trump and has since endorsed the former president.<\/p>\n

The billionaire SpaceX CEO may not love Trump personally, but the two men have many shared interests. Trump, for example, wants to unleash U.S. troops on American streets<\/a><\/span> to round up anyone who might look like they\u2019re in the country illegally, a plan that Musk might just agree with.<\/p>\n

Musk has created a steady drumbeat of xenophobic nonsense on X in recent months, insisting that illegal immigration is the biggest issue facing the country\u2014an overwhelming potential threat that\u2019s become a fixation for Musk. Oddly, Musk didn\u2019t seem to care much about immigration until about 2023, judging solely from his tweets and public comments. And Musk\u2019s new pet issue puts him at odds with President Joe Biden, who\u2019s not exactly a dove on immigration policy. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants,\u201d Musk tweeted late Monday<\/a><\/span> in a tone that\u2019s become typical of the billionaire. <\/p>\n

To be clear, non-citizens aren\u2019t allowed to vote in the U.S., so Musk\u2019s insistence that Biden is \u201cimporting\u201d voters is flat wrong. But Musk went on to say immigration could create a threat as serious as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9\/11. Just a matter of time,\u201d Musk continued.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that none of the terrorists that carried out the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York were in the country illegally. They all entered on completely legal visas<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Biden has said he\u2019d like to \u201cclose\u201d the border if Republicans can get him a bill that addresses the issue. Sen. James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma, spent months negotiating a bipartisan bill<\/a><\/span> that\u2019s widely viewed as the toughest immigration reform in a generation. But that legislation was torpedoed by Republicans after Trump made it clear he wants the border to be an issue he can campaign on in the lead-up to November\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the problem the U.S. now faces. Trump, who\u2019s currently leading Biden in several national polls, thrives in a world of chaos. And Musk might be signing up for precisely that kind of chaotic mission if he starts to support Trump financially.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n