“The senseless killings will end soon. The time for warmongering speculators is over”: this was written on his platform by Elon Musk, who also took part in Volodymyr Zelensky‘s congratulatory phone call to Donald Trump for his victory, assuring the Ukrainian president that will continue to support Kiev with its Starlink satellite network.
A detail that confirms how influential the richest man in the world could be in the next administration, who while waiting to lead the new commission for government efficiency continues to see the stocks of his companies driven by the triumph of The Donald: Tesla is back worth over 1,000 billion.
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The phone call lasted 25 minutes and the details of the peace plan were not discussed but Zelensky emerged somewhat reassured, according to Axios. Now we await a conversation between Trump and Vladimir Putin, who has already said he is ready to answer the call. Musk also participated in the phone call between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, one of many received by The Donald in his Mar-a-Lago fort, where he is working on the government team together with his transition team. He has already announced the first box, appointing his co-campaign manager Susie Wiles as the first female chief of staff of the White House, one of the five most powerful figures in Washington.
“Susie is strong, smart, innovative and is universally admired and respected. She will continue to work tirelessly to make America great again,” he praised her. Nicknamed ‘Ice Baby’ for her lucid coolness, always behind the scenes, the 67-year-old Wiles is a veteran of politics, from Reagan’s campaign in 1980 to those of Ron DeSantis, with whom she broke up by returning to Trump, with whom she had already worked in 2016.
According to CNN, he accepted on the condition of being able to exercise more control over who can contact the Oval Office, which in the tycoon’s first presidency was a sea port. One of her skills is “creating order out of chaos”, as she herself says: for now it therefore seems to be the guarantee of a more disciplined administration. Trump, according to the Financial Times, has also asked Robert Lighthizer, an anti-China hawk and supporter of tariffs, to return to being US Trade Representative while he could offer the role of Commerce Secretary to Linda McMahon, the billionaire co- president of the transition team and at the helm of the Small Business Administration in the tycoon’s previous presidency.
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, his former rival in the primary, is in pole position as energy czar. In the royal family however, after the step back of Ivanka (only electoral appearance on the night of the victory) and her husband Jared Kushner, their sons Eric and above all Don Jr., who wants to fill the government with “people who do not they think they know more than my father,” therefore loyal yes men.
In the meantime, the Department of Justice has declassified the charges against an Iranian, Farhad Shakeri, accused of having been instructed in September by a Pasdaran leader to provide a plan to kill Trump before the elections, as well as an American journalist critical of the regime Tehran and two American Jewish businessmen from New York. If the plan was not ready in seven days, Iran would have postponed its plot until after the vote, believing that Trump would lose and that it would be easier to assassinate him. For now, it has been Madonna who has spoken out against the tycoon.
“I’m trying to understand: why was a convicted criminal, rapist and bigot chosen to lead our country, why is it good for the economy?”, asked the singer on Instagram, one of the many disappointed stars who had supported Kamala Harris . Trump’s victory fuels the protests, with a demonstration of 50,000 people in the capital on January 18, two days before Inauguration Day. And it is likely to embolden racists and supremacists, as messages sent by an unknown sender to black Americans in 21 states suggest and which the FBI is investigating: the invitation is to “move to a plantation to pick cotton”.
