If elected president in 2024, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has said he would consider Elon Musk for an advisory role in the White House.
On Friday, he told supporters in Iowa, “I’ve enjoyed getting to know better Elon Musk recently, I expect him to be an interesting advisor of mine,” as reported by NBC News.
The biotech tycoon has already lauded Musk’s approach to trimming the federal bureaucracy, citing his takeover of X (now known as Twitter), which included laying off a considerable number of staff, as an example.
“What he did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do to the administrative state,” he told Laura Ingraham on Fox News on August 18. Get rid of 75% of the unnecessary expenditures. optimise the function for which it was designed.
Ramaswamy made some noise at the first GOP presidential debate on Wednesday and quickly made $450,000 as a result. He went back to Iowa to keep campaigning there. On Friday, the Messenger was the first to disclose his broader remarks.
Musk, the world’s richest man and the owner of X, Tesla, and SpaceX, has hinted that he will endorse Ron DeSantis and worked with the Florida governor on the start of his campaign. He has not officially endorsed Ramaswamy, although he has said kind things about him in the past.
Musk praised Ramaswamy as a “very promising candidate” in an August 17 post on X.
No quick response was received from Ramaswamy’s campaign. In addition, Musk’s press team at Tesla did not respond to our inquiry.
