{"id":209944,"date":"2025-01-07T18:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/why-elon-musk-is-trolling-world-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:45:33","slug":"why-elon-musk-is-trolling-world-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/why-elon-musk-is-trolling-world-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Elon Musk is trolling world leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/01\/1920x1080\/skynews-070125-daily-podcast_6793689.png?20250107162219&amp;resize=1920,1080&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Why Elon Musk is trolling world leaders\" title=\"Why Elon Musk is trolling world leaders\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sky-news-daily\/id951048357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk, the world&#8217;s richest man, South African-born American resident and owner of X (formerly Twitter), is already within the fold of US politics and president-elect Trump&#8217;s upcoming government. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, more of his attention has turned to Europe, with Mr Musk sharing support for the far-right German party AfD, Nigel Farage&#8217;s Reform UK and far-right activist Tommy Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Niall Paterson looks to unpick what Mr Musk&#8217;s aims for European politics might be. Our deputy political editor Sam Coates joins Niall to discuss the billionaire&#8217;s posts on X and the political reaction to them.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, culture, technology and society writer Sarah Manavis joins Niall to explore why Mr Musk is so interested in international politics, and for what potential gain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer:<\/strong> Rosie Gillott<br \/><strong>Editor:<\/strong> Philly Beaumont<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/why-elon-musk-is-trolling-world-leaders-13285106\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48 Elon Musk, the world&#8217;s richest man, South African-born American resident and owner of X (formerly Twitter), is already within the fold of US politics and president-elect Trump&#8217;s upcoming government. Recently, more of his attention has turned to Europe, with Mr Musk sharing support for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/01\/1920x1080\/skynews-070125-daily-podcast_6793689.png?20250107162219","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[2534,6118,6039,51384,1052],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209946,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209944\/revisions\/209946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}