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US President-elect Donald Trump said he would not hand over the presidency to billionaire Elon Musk and called the allegations a "hoax". “No, he will not run for president,” President Trump said Sunday at the Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix, Arizona. “You know, they're launching a new initiative,” Trump continued. All sorts of false rumors. What is new is that President Trump has handed over the presidency to South African-born Elon Musk. Musk's relationship with Trump raised concerns after Trump appointed him to head the unofficial Office of Government Efficiency, which aims to cut federal spending. Mr. Musk's role has drawn complaints as his companies, including Tesla Inc., tunnel services company Boring Corp. and the rocket launch company SpaceX, are subject to federal oversight. Musk also helped defeat the bipartisan budget proposal this week by regularly posting it on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Musk's involvement in government has led Democrats to believe he is Trump's "shadow president." “We have to face reality. We now have a president, Elon Musk,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) said Friday on MSNBC. And Donald Trump will probably be vice president. I don't think the vice president will do much, and that's understandable. Putin said he wanted to meet with President Musk “as soon as possible,” and President Trump said he wanted the war between Russia and Ukraine to end “quickly.” Trump also defended Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who heads the Department of Health and Human Services. He said he wanted Mr. Kennedy to investigate the connection between vaccinations and autism, a baseless conspiracy theory that Mr. Kennedy has promoted for years.
President Trump said: Together we will make America healthy again. “Something bad is happening.” President Trump also said he wants to revive the old Fort Liberty in North Carolina, named after General Braxton Bragg. The name was changed in 2023 to remove the Confederate connotation. President Trump also said that Mount Denali should revert to its old name, Mount McKinley, named after President William McKinley. President Trump said: “The wokeness must stop. Because along with everything else, it is destroying our country. We're going to stop the woke.""Woke is bullshit." As for TikTok, President Trump said he wants to keep it because the social media app allows him to attract younger voters.
