On a sunny October day, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, makes the first solo campaign appearance of his life at a school in eastern Pennsylvania. He jumps dynamically onto the stage, as always in a black T-shirt and black jacket, but this time also with a gold cap and the logo “Make America Great Again” (MAGA).
The tech entrepreneur gets straight to the point: He tells the audience that the world needs Donald Trump now and that he was at the US-Mexico border, where it looked like “World War Z”: “It’s like a zombie apocalypse .”