Photo: Saul Martinez/Getty Images via Agence France-Presse This is not the first time that Donald Trump (in the background) has indicated that he would like to see Elon Musk at his side in a possible new government if he is re-elected on November 5. But he had never been so specific about the tasks he wanted to give her.
Agence France-Presse in New York
Published yesterday at 16:46 Updated yesterday at 21:18
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced on Thursday that, if elected, he would task billionaire Elon Musk, to whom he is close, with an “audit” of the State with a view to “reforming” it in depth.
“On the advice of Elon Musk […], I will establish a government commission to conduct a comprehensive audit of the finances and performance of the entire federal government, with a view to making recommendations for drastic reforms,” the former president of the United States declared before a club of economists and business circles in New York.
This is not the first time that the 78-year-old Republican tribune has indicated that he would like to see Elon Musk, to whom he is close, at his side in a possible new administration, if he is re-elected on November 5.
But Donald Trump had never been so precise about the tasks he would like to entrust to the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“We have to do it, we can't continue like this. And Elon [Musk] has agreed to lead this “commission,” the conservative leader hammered home, hammering home the agenda of his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris and the “economic catastrophe” he says President Joe Biden's administration has caused.
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“Serious decline” and “cryptocurrency capital”
“We are in economic crisis, a failed nation, a nation in serious decline,” Donald Trump once again estimated, who has never ceased – before his arrival at the White House and since his departure – to paint the world's leading power in a negative light.
Current Vice President Harris and candidate for the election “wants four more years to implement a radical left agenda that poses a fundamental threat to the prosperity of every American family and to America as a whole,” he further charged.
Without commenting on the substance of the reforms advocated by Mr. Trump, law professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond in Virginia predicted that an appointment of Elon Musk would face “opposition from Congress and many other groups and personalities.”
“There would also be all sorts of conflicts of interest, particularly economic ones, given the business dealings between the two leaders,” the lawyer told AFP, believing that “shareholders of Musk's listed companies would take legal action.”
Developing in a rambling speech a few of the thrusts of his economic agenda if he returned to the White House, Donald Trump also promised to make “the United States the world capital of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.”
While speaking in New York, less than a week before a highly anticipated debate on September 10 with his rival Kamala Harris, the latter was in Pennsylvania, an industrial state in the northeast, perhaps the most crucial in the election between Republicans and Democrats.
Donald Trump won by a hair in 2016 and Joe Biden by a hair in 2020.
“We will make sure that the United States has a giant steel industry, an aluminum industry, a manufacturing base and a defense industry,” Mr. Trump also promised.
“Some people call it economic nationalism. I call it common sense. I call it America First,” concluded the leader considered a follower of protectionism.