
Timothy Snyder sostiene che l’uomo più ricco del mondo probabilmente eserciterà un’influenza scomoda sulla Casa Bianca. “Musk, con una somma di denaro che per lui non aveva alcun significato, è riuscito sostanzialmente a finanziare la campagna di Trump.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/01/elon-musk-donald-trump
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TL;DR – Trump is Musk’s investment, as if we didn’t already know that.
The real question is: is it a smart investment?
People confuse Musk’s net worth with his liquid assets.
I’m not going to speculate how much cash Musk has on hand, but it’s fair to assume it’s a tiny fraction of his total NW.
And meta, google, Facebook, apple, amazon, Netflix and many other companies donated millions of dollars to fund kamala’s campaign. That is how it works In the USA. Do they exert uncomfortable Influence too or is it only the people we don’t like?
Ngl I respect Snyder as a historian but his takes on American politics are pretty awful. He keeps pushing this “Trump is a Russian puppet” point despite being proven wrong numerous times.
This is the real shocker. To Musk, that amount was meaningless. Not even spare change. But it bought him the president of the United States. And he didn’t even have the decency to do it sneakyly. He wanted the whole world to know he bought him.
All the worlds richest men should become former richest men.
Obviously president Musk will have influence in the white house. What a meaningless article.
Musk has a place at Mar-a-Lago.
Musk is awkward and doesn’t have any real friends; so he tries to buy them.
I tried to find a site that has some data about the amounts of money spent on US elections.
[https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race](https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race)
Seeing the numbers, any sane person has to wonder how many people could have been fed, clothed and put under some kind of a roof to live in for the amounts these people spend on promoting themselves every 4 years..
Imagine Musk donating $100 Mio to German AfD. Spare change for him, but he wouldn’t only buy AfD, but also Germany and Europe.
I wish Musk gets the good ‘ol UnitedHealth CEO treatment this 2025.