Donald tramp i Elon Musk they can hardly fit in the same sentence anymore, and they certainly can't find each other in the same room except maybe in a courtroom, one day. At least that's how their relationship looks at the moment, after a little more than ten months since the assassination of Trump during the election campaign, on July 13, 2024, after which Musk decided to support his candidacy - financially and personally.
For almost four months, the most powerful and richest man in the world worked closely to change the American administration, and it ended as expected. Two irrepressible egos parted in an explosion that Trump sees as a small firecracker on his historic march, and Musk as a Big Bang that will give birth to a new political force with him at the helm. Silicon Valley is interested in what consequences this will have for them. With a reason.
Entering into an alliance with Musk, Trump told the leaders of the IT industry that he sees the world through their eyes despite the fact that he made his first million before the massification of personal computers and mobile phones, that is, he essentially belongs to the pre-computer era. Technology the leaders responded to me with a massive presence at the inauguration in January, which many read as both a tribute and an expectation. We offer support, but we also expect it, at a time when it needs to be decided whether the USA will remain the world's only IT superpower or will have to make way for China. The EU and Russia are nowhere in sight, and Japan is even further away.
The reason why the American IT sector takes Trump more seriously than any previous president or more visible politician is that Trump fought through their tools for both mandates, especially for this second mandate. He likes to call himself the biggest influencer in the world, emphasizing that others have declared him so.
At the beginning of June, an analysis of Trump's appearances on the Truth network, which he is the founder and co-owner of, appeared in the American media. In 132 days of his mandate, Trump published 2262 posts - an average of 17 posts or "truths" per day. He achieved the record one day in March when he posted as many as 138 times, or roughly once every ten minutes. He surpassed himself from January 2020, that is, at the time of the post-election crisis and the attack of his supporters on Capitol Hill, when he wrote 132 tweets in one day. In particular, he surpassed his own practice from the beginning of the last mandate, when he published only 685 tweets in the same period, three times less.
Trump, of course, doesn't write all of his posts himself. It is believed, although not officially, that he has an entire team to whom he issues instructions for the content and timing of online postings. Personally, he is particularly active in the early morning hours, which is the subject of a special analysis on several levels. Because he is prone to remarks that we thought were unbecoming of a man in such a high position, including insulting comments about Bruce Springsteen or Taylor Swift, sharing theories that Biden was killed in 2020 and replaced by a robot, and even direct messages to the leaders of Russia and Ukraine that in the old days were wrapped in multi-layered diplomatic cellophane. Trump them the truth shoots in the middle of the forehead several times a day, from early dawn.
It is interesting that he publishes most of his posts on the Truth network where he has about ten million followers, about ten times less than on X, which Musk returned him to in 2022 when he bought the then Twitter. But Trump has a network of followers who share his posts in such a way that everything he writes reaches almost everyone who uses social networks and is interested in politics, especially his followers. In doing so, he completely bypassed the traditional media that were not favorable to him in the campaign, and that is what the tech leaders liked. At the head of the state is a man who knows where the real strength is today, he just needs to be turned into an ally. Musk showed them the way not to go.
