--- title: "Donald Trump Reportedly Wants to Get Elon Musk Back in the White House" description: "Donald Trump apparently wants to hire Elon Musk for an advisory role in the White House should he win the presidency back in November." date: "2024-05-30" modified: "2024-05-30" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/donald-trump-elon-musk-white-house" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "donald trump" - "elon musk" - "politics" - "the digest" --- # Donald Trump Reportedly Wants to Get Elon Musk Back in the White House ![Donald Trump apparently wants to hire Elon Musk for an advisory role in the White House should he win the presidency back in November.]() *\Image: Apu Gomes / Justin Lane / Pool via Getty / Futurism\* ## Want U Back Despite their [erstwhile beef](), former president Donald Trump apparently wants to hire Elon Musk for an advisory role in the White House should he win the upcoming election in November. According to people familiar with the matter who [spoke to the *Wall Street Journal*]() on condition of anonymity, details about the potential position haven't been finalized, but it signals that whatever bad blood existed between the two men seems to have leveled out. Notably, this would not be the first time Musk held a position in a Trump White House. Back in late 2016, the then-president-elect [appointed the South African-born billionaire]() to two advisory councils, but [Musk ended up leaving]() less than six months after Trump [pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords](), citing his environmentalist beliefs as the reasoning behind the move. That debacle seems to have been the start of the pair's longstanding feud, which [came to a head in 2022]() when the two traded insults and Musk said Trump should "[hang up his hat]()" and not run again in a since-deleted tweet. But plenty of time has passed since then, hinting at the possibility of the capricious billionaire CEO making his return — that is if he chooses to pick Trump up on an offer. ## New Leaf Despite signs that the relationship was thawing earlier this year when [Trump met with Musk]() in talks for the multi-hyphenate CEO to purchase the ex-president's [failing social network](), the latest reported alliance comes as something of a surprise. Indeed, beyond the discussion of him reviving his advisory turn, Musk has also reportedly told Trump that he and some of his political allies are running an influence campaign to try to get business leaders not to back Joe Biden for re-election, which is certainly a sea change from the younger sycophant's stance less than two years ago. That effort included, according to the newspaper's anonymous sources, a secret April dinner party that featured PayPal and Palantir founder Peter Thiel, NewsCorp's Rupert Murdoch, and Trump's former Treasury Department secretary Steve Mnuchin. Musk and billionaire investor Nelson Peltz have also, per some of the *WSJ*'s sources, been telling the GOP frontrunner about a so-called "data-driven project" to prevent voter fraud, though details about that endeavor are scarce as well. While the relationship between these two singularly strange and influential figures continues to evolve, the rest of the country is left with a terrible prospect: a political team-up between two of the cattiest and most mercurial men alive. **More on Musk maneuvers:** [*Elon Musk Reportedly Took Ketamine and Had Sex With the Wife of the Cofounder of Google*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()