On a podcast with BBC’s Nick Robinson, Meta’s president of worldwide affairs, Nick Clegg, talked about how Elon Musk is “taking part in an outsized position in each the election and now the formation of the brand new U.S. administration.”
Clegg mentioned he thinks that Elon Musk has a “alternative” on the subject of his political future: to be an “avid and well-heeled supporter” or to turn out to be a “puppet grasp, going nicely past Trump, deciding who the following Republican candidate needs to be and the one after that, and so forth, so forth.”
He stopped in need of saying the SpaceX billionaire is a risk to democracy, however he did say that being a “puppet grasp” who influences candidate choice for years to come back is “fairly totally different to the final custom of American democracy.”