Former President Donald Trump is considering appointing Elon Musk to help advise him in the White House after the pair patched up their relationship in recent months.
The 45th president has not ironed out the details and a position might not materialize, the Wall Street Journal reported — but the two have been in talks about how the tech mogul could give “formal input” on issues like the border, the economy and preventing voter fraud.
Their initial icy relationship has been thawing recently, and Musk — the world’s third-richest man — is now in direct phone contact with Trump; the pair talk “several times a month,” according to the outlet.
Musk, alongside billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, have also spoken to Trump about an effort Musk launched to convinced business leaders not to support President Biden in November.
“President Trump will be the only voice of what role an individual plays in his presidency,” senior Trump adviser Brian Hughes told The Post.
“But it has been widely reported and is demonstrated in a number of ways, that many of the nation’s most important leaders in technology and innovation are concerned with the damage done to their industry by Biden’s failures to handle our economy and his moves to overburden innovators with government bureaucracy and unrelenting regulation.”
Musk, the owner of the the social media platform X and the founder of Tesla and Space X, has previously said he would not give money to either candidate and has been openly anti-Biden.
But, the South African-born billionaire has painted himself as largely an independent.
Musk became a US citizen in 2002.
After Trump scored victories on Super Tuesday and became the presumptive Republican nominee, Musk had a meeting with the former president at Mar-a-Lago, the Wall street Journal reported.
Trump confirmed the meeting in March, telling CNBC that they did in fact meet, but not revealing what the conversation as about.
“Look, I’ve been friendly with him over the years. I’ve helped him when I was president. I helped him. I’ve liked him,” Trump said.
The conversations between Musk and Trump have included topics like immigration, tech and science like the US Space Force, according to the WSJ — topics that Musk has been vocal about on X.
“America will fall if it tries to absorb the world. That is why I am banging the drum so much about this issue,” Musk said about immigration in March.
Trump has courted wealthy donors to contribute to his campaign, and even if Musk — worth an estimated $202 billion — doesn’t contribute financially, his massive influence on social media — 185.1 million followers on X — could sway voters in Trump’s favor.