Watch as Trump bristles ‘Elon Musk CAN’T be president’ as X billionaire continues clinging to triumphant Don’s coattail
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WATCH as Donald Trump delivers another warning jab to clingy Elon Musk, bristling that he “can’t be president” amid jokes about his inflated influence. Trump hit back against claims he had “ceded the presidency” to the tech billionaire who has been at his side since the election victory.
![[Trump was forced to make it clear that Musk is not the true holder of power]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/trouble-paradise-watch-trump-bristles-959402081.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The footage from AmericaFest shows Trump insisting: “No, he’s not going to be president, that I can tell you. “And I’m safe, you know why?. “He can’t be, he wasn’t born in this country.”. Trump was forced to deny a “hoax” that Musk had taken the presidency after the X-owner helped the president-elect to scupper a budget bill negotiated in Congress.
![[The pair have become firm friends, and now colleagues, since Musk's enthusiastic support for the Republican campaign]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/u-s-president-elect-donald-951063207.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Democrats have riled Trump by cracking jokes about “President Musk”. The Democrat representative Brendan Boyle told CNN at the weekend: “On Wednesday morning, Elon Musk proved that he is the real leader of the Republican Party, because over the course of about four or five or six hours, he tweeted nonstop against the deal that had been negotiated and agreed to by all sides.”.
![[Musk made an excitable appearance at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-elon-musk-worlds-richest-947107740.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Trump’s rebuttal came during a speech of over an hour at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix to a crowd of thousands of Republican activists. This was his first large-scale rally-style event since the election, complete with pyrotechnics and chants of "Trump, Trump, Trump".
![[Trump was forced to deny that he had ceded the presidency to Musk]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/12/trouble-paradise-watch-trump-bristles-959402079.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But this is not the first time Trump has made a jibe about Elon’s lurking presence. Last month, days after the election result, Trump joked he “couldn’t get Musk out of Mar-a-Lago,” his luxury Florida resort where Elon spent “nearly every day”.
![[President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk at a UFC event at Madison Square Garden]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/president-elect-donald-trump-elon-949784076.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
