This comes months after the Republican leader took to X to call out the billionaire’s closeness with Chinese ministers after the Tesla CEO took a trip to the country.

Elon Musk on Friday praised Indian-American US presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy calling his candidature “promising”. The owner of X, formerly Twitter, was reacting to an interview the Republican leader gave to former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson.
“He is a very promising candidate,” Mr Musk said while reposting the interview which called the 37-year-old the youngest Republican presidential candidate in the US.
He is a very promising candidate https://t.co/bEQU8L21nd
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 17, 2023
The tech-entrepreneur, who graduated from Harvard and Yale universities, was born to Indian parents who migrated to the US from Kerala.
This comes months after the Republican leader called out the billionaire’s closeness with Chinese ministers after the Tesla CEO took a trip to the country. Elon Musk, who also met China’s Foreign Minister, had announced that he will expand his business in the country while praising China’s “vitality and promise”.