Elon Musk’s provocative posts on migrants, DEI and elections see him branded as heir to Donald Trump who’s even MORE influential than the former president

Elon Musk has become Donald Trump’s ‘spiritual heir’ because of his populism, fan base and ability to spin ideas around his worldview, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist.

Musk and Trump are both entrepreneurs, provocative on social issues, politically incorrect and have built a populist following “through years of clever use of Twitter that has become X,” according to Tim Higgins, whose writings specialize in Musk and his companies.

“For many, Musk’s evolution from green energy tech whiz to self-appointed troll officer has made the billionaire the spiritual heir to Trump,” but now “even more influential,” Higgins wrote.

Musk has, Higgins writes, mastered Trump’s ability to stoke a social media firestorm and stoke his fan base, citing an example from earlier this week in which the tech mogul suggested that efforts on the area of ​​diversity in business could jeopardize the safety of air travel.

“It’s going to take a plane crashing and killing hundreds of people before they can change this crazy policy of DIE,” Musk wrote on his X platform on Tuesday, rearranging the acronym for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

Musk also adopts Trump’s enormous self-confidence and bravado, writes Tim Higgins

During the 2020 election campaign, Trump signed an executive order against DEI initiatives such as racial sensitivity training and teaching critical race theory in federal institutions, which he described as “evil ideology” and “divisive, anti-American propaganda,” respectively.

Musk has adopted other rhetoric from the former president, including spreading fear about the consequences of mass migration to the US.

Last week, Musk wrote on X that the government would force Americans to house migrants in their homes after a school in Brooklyn was closed for a day.

‘This is what happens when you run out of hotel rooms. “Soon, cities will no longer have schools to evacuate,” the Tesla CEO said.

Addition: ‘Then they will come for your houses.’

Musk’s post included a video of migrant buses driving to the school Tuesday evening after officials moved students to remote learning on Wednesday to accommodate the asylum seekers currently housed in the tent shelter at Bennet Airfield.

There is no evidence that any local government in the country has attempted to force people to house migrants in residential homes or has plans to do so.

Additionally, Musk has followed Trump in spreading misinformation about the results of the 2020 election.

The former president refused to accept the results of the 2020 election

Musk has followed Trump in spreading misinformation about the results of the 2020 election

Last May, he posted an article on Twitter claiming the contests were “bought by Mark Zuckerberg.”

Trump allies had advanced the baseless idea that donations from Zuckerberg, among others, to a group called Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) amounted to partisan election interference.

Musk also adopts Trump’s enormous self-confidence and bravado, Higgins writes.

In response to a recent Wall Street Journal report on Musk’s drug use that raised concerns among his board members and executives, Musk responded by saying he had failed any drug tests and highlighted the success of his companies.

‘Whatever I do, I obviously have to keep doing it!’ he wrote on X.

Republican pollster Frank Luntz notes that the two men are often compared and supported by the same group of people when he conducts focus groups.

‘People’s reaction (to both men) is, ‘Well, good for him, … I don’t always agree with what he says, I don’t necessarily like how he says it, but I like it what he does, he’s shaking things up,” Luntz told the Journal.

Higgins goes on to say that Musk is seen by his supporters as the poster child for the “quintessential American dream,” which, because the U.S. previously “told the King of England over 200 years ago to essentially ‘take care of yourself go,” has paved the way for Musk to do the same to “the CEO of Disney.”

The following he has built sees Musk as “an immigrant who, against all odds, risked everything again and again,” who “made it in America” after hard work and taking down the elites.