President-elect Donald Trump made his first rally remarks since his 2024 election win at a Turning Point USA event and called on Republicans to support his agenda one month before his inauguration.
PHOENIX — President-elect Donald Trump dismissed any suggestion that he’s being usurped by his high-profile billionaire ally Elon Musk, coming off a week in which Musk helped derail an emergency spending measure to avert a government shutdown. Trump said the notion that has “ceded the presidency” to Musk is a fiction and that even if Musk wanted the job, he couldn’t get it because of the Constitution’s requirement that the U.S. president be a natural-born citizen. Musk was born in South Africa.
Trump and Musk effectively scuttled Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposed emergency spending measure, forcing lawmakers to find an acceptable alternative that would keep the government running hours before the shutdown would have taken effect. Musk, who owns the social media site X, posted more than 100 times about his objections to the original spending deal — a preview of how may use his influence and his megaphone to shape policy in Trump’s second term.
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