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Elon Musk Wants to Colonize Trump's White House
The world’s richest man has lavished time, attention and tens of millions of dollars on Trump’s reelection. And it’s not for nothing.
This column was originally published on Nov. 3
Terraforming Mars may be a pipe dream, but Elon Musk is all in on colonizing somewhere closer to home: the White House.
The world’s richest man is lavishing money and vast corporate resources on ensuring Donald Trump is reelected as the US president. The web of contracts and subsidies that bind his empire to government largess have not prevented him from inserting himself into America’s fraught politics — and, depending on the outcome, ever more deeply into the fabric of society and national security.