After bankrolling Donald Trump’s campaign and becoming one of the US president-elect’s main surrogates, Elon Musk is increasingly engaging in European politics from supporting the far-right in Germany to attacking the British prime minister.

After successfully launching back-to-back on Dec 28 and Dec 29, Elon Musk-owned SpaceX to deploy 21 Starlink satellites on its final launch of 2024 from Florida NASA facility

Doing that on a maiden flight would be unprecedented: that kind of partial reusability was pioneered by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket firm, and it required several attempts before eventually sticking the landing in 2016.

Tesla was close to bankruptcy, leading Elon Musk to consider selling the company to Google for $6 billion. The deal was nearly finalized with Musk set to remain at Tesla for eight years. However, a surge in Model S sales and subsequent profits allowed Tesla to recover,

Musk's Tesla stake rose by $111 billion — 65% — last year. All but $2 billion of Musk’s Tesla gain and about 98% of what other Tesla shareholders gained came after Election Day, when Musk began hanging out extensively with Donald Trump and started calling himself Trump’s “first buddy.

It's no secret that Elon Musk has been playing a big role in the soon-to-be Donald Trump administration. Musk, the world's richest man, endorsed Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. He spent Election Night hanging out with the president-elect.

Elon Musk is having an unprecedented run of success. Thanks to the massive successes of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, as well as the purchase of the popular social media website Twitter, Musk recently became the first person to ever have their net worth pass $400 billion.