On July 13, according to the latest reports from Reuters and other media, Elon ·, the top billionaire in United States, donated a sum of money to organizations that support Trump's campaign, and the specific amount is not known, but Musk is sitting on a fortune of 250 billion US dollars, which is not a small amount even if he makes a small move, which is a major positive for Trump.
Musk has long claimed that he will try to keep his distance from politics, and in the past 20 years, he has donated very little to the United States and the two parties, and he has not favored anyone in general, and his donations to the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are only more than 500,000, which is really not worth mentioning compared with his worth. For this year's election, he has not publicly stated who he will support, nor has he said that he will not pay, and now it seems that he should support Trump in his heart. Some of his previous actions have also shown this tendency, such as Trump's public defense on social networks after his conviction, which has affected the reputation and sales of his subsidiary Tesla.
Musk's attitude towards Biden has always been relatively indifferent, mainly because he disagrees with Biden on two issues. One is taxation, relative to the Republican Party, the Democratic Party advocates higher taxes and welfare, in 2021 Biden wants to expand social health care, but this requires a lot of money, so Biden is eyeing rich people like Musk, and wants to tax the appreciation of the stocks they hold, even if these stocks are not sold after they rise. This will cause Musk to pay more than $10 billion in taxes a year, when Musk openly opposed it, and Biden bluntly said that whoever opposes it is trying to evade taxes by tricks.
The second disagreement between the two is on immigration, with Musk speaking out against illegal immigration, who opened a live broadcast at the United States border last October, calling on authorities to pay attention to border security, which attracted about 5 million viewers. He also publicly exposed the Democrats, saying that the Democrats' reluctance to deport illegal immigrants is in their own interests, because every illegal immigrant is a potential vote.
But in Musk's eyes, the Democrats and Biden are not useless. Democrats have been focusing on topics such as climate change and clean energy, which is consistent with the concept of Musk's electric car, and he has expressed optimism about Biden's energy policy.
Tesla is one of the core enterprises controlled by Musk, and the interest of leftists in United States in electric vehicles far exceeds that of right-wingers, and Trump has also said that he wants to ban electric vehicles, Musk's move is undoubtedly alienating his potential customers, and it can even be said that he is cutting off his financial path.