Donald Trump humorously addressed the speculations that Elon Musk was the actual president and said that Musk could not be the president as he was born in South Africa. “No, no. That’s not happening. He’s not gonna be president," Trump joked about Musk’s South African birthplace, adding, “You know why he can’t be [president]? He wasn’t born in this country."
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​Ramaswamy's opinion on the H-1B visa program which allows US companies to hire foreign workers is aligned with that of Elon Muska and Donald Trump, but his rant in which he bashed the American culture for celebrating mediocrity, for adding more value to the prom queen than to a math olympiad champ "irked some Republicans in Trump's circle".
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