When President-elect Trump held a press availability after speaking to Republican governors last week he rattled off several big names who'd made the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring of the new Don. He actually sounded rather surprised by it, saying, "they all came. Jeff Bezos came, Bill Gates came, Mark Zuckerberg came, many of them came numerous times, the bankers have all come, everybody's coming. I haven't had anyone say anything bad about me. I'm not used to it."
Trump believes they come because they are dazzled by the power and strength of his massive electoral victory (like nobody's ever seen before!) but none of them are as dumb or as deluded as he is so that's obviously not the case. I'm going to guess they're dazzled by the richest man in the world's proximity to him and they want a piece of that action. Elon Musk has opened the door to a new style of oligarchy: American style.
