{"id":16509,"date":"2024-11-09T12:37:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/how-elon-musk-became-donald-trumps-shadow-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:37:34","slug":"how-elon-musk-became-donald-trumps-shadow-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/how-elon-musk-became-donald-trumps-shadow-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"How Elon Musk became Donald Trump\u2019s shadow vice-president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest man has risen to become the second most powerful man in US politics. None of it was accidental<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-elections-2024\">election<\/a> results roll in from a party at his Mar-a-Lago compound, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> sat arm\u2019s length away, basking in the impending victory he had helped secure. In less than five months, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had gone from not endorsing a candidate to becoming a fixture of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2024\/oct\/18\/elon-musk-trump-election-influence\">the president-elect\u2019s inner circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future is gonna be so  ,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1854026234339938528\">posted<\/a> to his social media platform, X, just after midnight, along with a photo of himself leaning over to talk with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago dinner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/nov\/09\/elon-musk-trump-administration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bff954463075ad6ec8a5abf100740b7f1426f1df\/0_0_5585_3353\/master\/5585.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ab1493f467c078ae952f8bbdc85c71e7\" title=\"How Elon Musk became Donald Trump\u2019s shadow vice-president\" \/>The world\u2019s richest man has risen to become the second most powerful man in US politics. None of it was accidental<br \/>\nAs Donald Trump watched election results roll in from a party at his Mar-a-Lago compound, Elon Musk sat arm\u2019s length away, basking in the impending victory he had helped secure. In less than five months, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had gone from not endorsing a candidate to becoming a fixture of the president-elect\u2019s inner circle.<br \/>\n\u201cThe future is gonna be so  ,\u201d Musk posted to his social media platform, X, just after midnight, along with a photo of himself leaning over to talk with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago dinner. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest man has risen to become the second most powerful man in US politics. None of it was accidental As Donald Trump watched election results roll in from a party at his Mar-a-Lago compound, Elon Musk sat arm\u2019s length away, basking in the impending victory he had helped secure. In less than five &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/how-elon-musk-became-donald-trumps-shadow-vice-president\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Elon Musk became Donald Trump\u2019s shadow vice-president<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}