Well, yes, when one’s first reaction to a setback (and there’s always setbacks in that position) is to turn to adolescent negging/bragging and accusations of pedophilia, perhaps one’s temperament is unsuited to the job. Or really any job. One of the perks of extreme wealth.
Being a citizen is not enough. He has to have been born here (or born to US -citizen parents)
ETA: but as pointed out by others, he doesn’t have to be eligible to be POTUS to be in the line of succession)
The low-income, low-information voters who expected Trump to turn the entire power structure upside down so that they come out on top are about to have a rude awakening.
Indeed so. The requirement in the Constitution is a natural born citizen, which is well established to exclude naturalized citizens.
Well, natural born or somebody who was a Citizen of the US at the time the Constitution was ratified, which covered several of the early Presidents.
He personally would not be in the line of succession, though the Speaker of the House, should they qualify, would generally be in that line.
It’s a little fuzzy whether such a person would “be” President or merely “act as President”, but the Presidential Succession Act is clear that any such person would have to otherwise meet the qualifications for the position, which he would not.
Even Caligula didn’t appoint his horse’s ass to the Senate.
The GOP margin in the House is, and will continue to be, too think to make this a realistic scenario. I agree with other posters that Elon would not enjoy doing the actual work of speaker.
I agree that this isn’t a serious proposal but he would probably love to do it and just troll the whole time.
You’re correct, but he would soon fall flat on his face, since he would have absolutely zero knowledge of how to get the speaker’s work done, which is extensive.
FYI, I found the Washington Post “article” (in quotes because it’s a series of live updates) in which this goofball idea is presented.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) said she would be “open to supporting” billionaire Elon Musk as speaker of the House.
Asked if he was serious in calling for billionaire Elon Musk — who donated heavily to Republicans this election cycle and serves as an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump — to be House speaker, Sen Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said he would leave his comment “open to interpretation.” Paul said Musk is having a positive impact in calling attention to high spending levels in the now-dead government funding deal.
“My rebuke of the speaker the day before was intended to show that that’s not who we are as a party and he’s got to do a better job,” Paul said.
Just saw a commentary segment, sorry didn’t catch the name, where they referred to, ‘President elect Musk and vice president Trump.
I like it!
BTW, try to imagine what would Republicans be saying if a foreign-born billionaire demonstrated as much influence in a Democratic administration in Washington? What if, say, George Soros was influencing politics as much as Musk has been (even if his influence was for the better and his intentions benign)? I suspect Republicans would be screaming loudly and Fox News would be all over the story.
Heck, it doesn’t need to be a foreign-born billionaire. Imagine Bill Gates or Warren Buffett in the same position.
They are constantly screaming loudly about George Soros already, and he has essentially no influence, just helps fund some campaigns.
Read Dave Troy.. It’s much, much worse than you think.
Whether we have a shutdown or not, the debt limit will be re-imposed on January 2nd. The new Congress will immediately need to address it, and we can expect Musk and his DOGE caucus to use the threat of default as leverage to extract draconian cuts.
It is unlikely that any resolution will be reached on the debt ceiling until after January 20th. Trump is likely to declare a state of emergency on taking office, creating a sense of crisis while we attempt to avoid default. Meanwhile “extraordinary measures” will be in effect as we try to conserve cash.
The American public needs to understand that we are under attack by Putin, Musk, Xi, and their colleagues…Their goal is to terminate American democracy.
Wouldn’t it depend on their choice of weapons?
Speaker of the House is a full-time job that requires people skills and an ability to compromise and find common ground within a big tent alliance.
Elmo would be absolutely miserable if they picked him.
On the other hand, he would accomplish nothing, which might not be a bad thing, given how awful their plans are.
Would he even last? Trump (mis)governs through a brisk rotation of myrmidons, not with anyone who plants his ass firmly in a sub-center of power.
These sort of meme is cropping up more and more. Given Trumpy tolerates no rivals, is this a passive aggressive way to hasten the falling out and the fall of Musk? Despotic leaders always start making examples of oligarchs. Hmmm, what are the odds that Truth Social and X “merge”, with an orange haired majority shareholder? Or who will win the showdown when the world’s richest man goes up against arguably the most powerful person on the planet? Stay tuned.
Never been done, and won’t be done.
Yeah, the GOP was a super slim majority and Musk isnt all that popular.
I don’t think anything in our government is going to look the same four years from now as it does today. Speaker of the House will mean whatever Elon wants it to mean. It definitely won’t mean getting the drudge work done. It WILL mean putting the pocket veto on any legislation that does not serve to further enrich him or his cronies.
Hold on tight, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.