He's just the first. He's watched and acknowledged Trump and he's seen how bull*censored* brings success.
Trump could be impeached tomorrow and he'd go out wildly richer and more successful then he was coming in.
I said it as a joke but this might well be Musk positioning himself as a presidential candidate. He's trying to position himself to where he can call a random person a pedophile for no good reason and it be forgiven as banter.
Trump has been a trailblazer, in ways that some consider great and others consider unforgivable. We all need to remember that other rich *censored* are watching, and whether they're liberal or conservative they'll use the same path to power.
Ya'll who are crowing about Trump, I'd suggest you consider how he does what he does how you would feel if a socialist was doing the same thing.
Uh, I think there is one, maybe two people on this board who are anything close to enthusiastic about Donald Trump.
The rest of us have simply been pointing to Trump as a symptom of a larger problem regarding the "Politically Correct atmosphere" that has developed across the country, and it's own "take no prisoners" approach to addressing any problems it identifies.
The OTHER thing which gave Trump a huge shot in the arm was the whole matter of Hillary Clinton being the person he ran against, as she was almost the embodiment of that same culture, particularly coming off the heels of the Obama Administration
where many people had spent 8 years being called racist simply because they didn't agree with the black guy in office,
never mind they didn't give a crap about what his skin color was. (Which isn't to say there weren't people who did care, as there obviously were, on both sides, as the point isn't relevant unless race matters
as a decision making criteria for the person raising the issue in the first place)
And "they"
still haven't learned, as they've basically run with Hillary's "deplorables" comment with regards to Trump supporters specifically and the Republicans in general since then. Only time will tell, and we'll have "a better picture of things" in November(particularly if Republicans over-perform on some projections), but in the end I'm expecting a mixed result in the mid-term, and the Dems are going to take that to mean "their rhetoric is working" (and the message wasn't received well by the rest of the population
because they're just that deplorable), and go into 2020 with the same Song and Dance routine, where they're going to find a very different outcome. Because they still don't understand what is truly going on here.