Trump: Musk is not president

"He's not going to be president, I can tell you that," Trump told a Republican conference in Phoenix, Ariz.
Is it possible that Elon Musk, who has a lot of influence in a future Trump administration, could one day become president? Donald Trump responded with an emphatic "no," pointing to U.S. birth rules for the country. 
"He's not going to become president, I can tell you that," Trump said at a Republican conference in Phoenix, Arizona. 
"You know why he can't be? He wasn't born in this country," Trump said of the Tesla and SpaceX chief, who was born in South Africa. 
The U.S. Constitution requires that the president be a natural-born U.S. citizen. 
Trump has responded to criticism, particularly from the Democratic camp, which portrays the tech billionaire and world's richest man as "President Musk" because of the exclusive role he plays in the incoming administration. As for handing the presidency to Musk, Trump also assured the crowd: 
"No, no, that's not going to happen." The influence of Musk, who will serve as Trump's "performance czar," has become a focal point for Democrats' attacks, with questions being raised about how an unelected citizen could have so much power. 
And there is even growing anger among Republicans after Musk this week trashed a government funding proposal in a flurry of posts - many of them wildly inaccurate - to his more than 200 million followers on his social media platform X. 
Along with Trump, Musk ultimately helped pressure Republicans to abandon the funding bill they had reached a painful agreement on with Democrats, bringing the United States to the brink of budget paralysis that would have led to a government shutdown just days before Christmas. 
In the end, Congress reached an agreement overnight Friday versus Saturday that avoided a massive shutdown of government services. | BGNES