Tech tycoon Elon Musk joined a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the day after the presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

    • 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee
      33·
      2 months ago

      Musk doesn’t need to run for office. He’s the richest man in the world. With Trump as president, Musk can just call him, offer a few million and get whatever he wants.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldOP
        18·
        2 months ago

        Musk has enough money to change whatever rules he wants and tie up all the government lawyers for years fighting over all the rules he might want to break.

        Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

    • 0x01
      131·
      2 months ago

      He’s not eligible, born in south africa

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        Until trump, supermajority in Congress, and a hand picked supreme court say so

          • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            Yep. Look up the standards of a constitutional amendment. (Spoiler alert: having a supermajority is a good start)

            • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              Constitutional amendments also have to be ratified by the states. That’s not trivial.

              • andrewta@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 months ago

                While it is a big standard that it has to be ratified by the states. What a lot of people don’t realize is the citizens do not get to vote on a constitutional amendment for the United States. It’s the legislators. The citizens get absolutely zero say. Didn’t know this until just a couple of months ago I actually thought it was the people who voted on it. Now let’s look at the political map of the United States. Do the Republicans hold more legislative houses in the states or did the Democrats? And how big of a percentage split does a given state have to have?

                What I mean is, for example North Dakota, that legislative house, the Senate and the House of Representatives, how many senators have to vote in favor of to get it to pass for North Dakota? How many representatives have to favor in favor for pass for North Dakota?

                Is there enough Republicans in that state in both the house and the Senate that would vote in favor this?

                Now look at each state look at the difference in between Democrats and Republicans in each state.

                I don’t know if we’re at the point yet where they could get The needed majority, I literally have not counted the Republicans in each state… But it would be an interesting question.

                • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  Yeah, you need 38 states to ratify it. If we go by governors (so I don’t have to do a ton of research, but it’s probably representative of legislatures), only 27 states are Republican controlled. Good fucking luck getting a partisan amendment through.

          • b000rg@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            The Constitution can be changed; it has been 27 times already, so I don’t see why everyone seems to think it’s set in stone.

          • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            2 months ago

            I think you’re right. It would hinge on the natural-born-citizen clause and that’s probably hard to “reinterpret” even for a loaded court.

          • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            the constitution

            …yeah that’s a couple months away from being slathered in Trump’s feces and filed securely into one of the whitehouse’s toilets.