And Elon Musk will be there. Maybe playing the role of JD Vance as Ramaphosa is treated like Zelensky?President @CyrilRamaphosa is attending the 2025 Budget Speech virtually from Washington D.C. in the United States of America where he is on a working visit.
— The Presidency 🇿🇦 (@PresidencyZA) May 21, 2025
The President is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump later today. #Budget2025 #AWorkingNation 🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/B24LginGa3
Nah, probably not. South Africa wants to make a Starlink deal. I’m guessing as a way to grease the skids with the U.S. *
Or, you know: not.
You'll notice that each of the major dailies has now run a "Musk is pulling back" ... "Musk won't be spending more on campaigns" article in just the last few days. But look closer and US diplos keep working to rack up Starlink contracts for him overseas and more USG contracts keep piling up.
2/ Meanwhile Musk remains the enforcer behind DOGE. This is a good example of a crisis comms team at work.
Vietnam desperately wants Trump’s 46% tariffs lifted. They offered to reduce tariffs on US to zero, but that really won’t do much to change the trade deficit that Trump’s obsessed with. So they did this and approved Musk’s Starlink. Now expect a deal soon on tariffs for Vietnam. pic.twitter.com/83Lkarnjaj
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 21, 2025
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