The US (US) President-elect, Donald Trump, has acknowledged categorically that the CEO of Tesla Motors and social media platform, X, Elon Musk, can by no means occupy the nation’s highest political seat.

Based on Trump, the reason being that the billionaire businessman was not born within the US.

Naija Information reviews that Trump’s remarks adopted a day after President Joe Biden enacted a funding invoice aimed toward averting a authorities shutdown.

The prior laws, which resulted from negotiations between each events in Congress, had confronted backlash simply days earlier when Trump and Musk publicly criticized it.

It’s value noting that Musk’s affect has emerged as a major goal for Democratic criticism, each previous to and following Trump’s electoral success in November.

Musk publicly expressed his assist for Trump after a taking pictures incident on the former president’s rally in Pennsylvania.

The know-how mogul is reported to have donated roughly $200 million to a Political Motion Committee (PAC) backing Trump.

Nonetheless, throughout an tackle in Arizona on Sunday, Trump responded to the rampant hypothesis, asserting that the U.S. presidency is not going to be transferred to the proprietor of X (previously Twitter).

“And no, he’s not taking the presidency. He’s not going to be president, that I can let you know. You realize why he can’t be? He wasn’t born on this nation,” Trump stated.

He additionally criticized his political opponents for perpetuating the narrative, describing the speculations as a “hoax.”