Musk Takes Slash-and-Burn Style to Europe After Bolstering Trump
The world’s richest person has his sights set on Germany, the UK — and the EU’s regulatory powers.
Elon Musk at an America First Policy Institute gala at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 14.
Photographer: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times/Redux
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Having successfully worked to get his candidate elected in the US, Elon Musk is setting his sights on Europe.
In a series of posts on his X platform in recent weeks, the billionaire backer of Donald Trump has honed in on Germany and the UK, criticized the respective governments, questioned laws they’ve enacted and cast doubt on their economic competence.