Elon has been campaigning against government regulations, vowing to expose alleged outlandish schemes

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is on the campaign trail as he rallies support for former President Trump, targeting government regulations that expand American businesses and cut government red tape.

Musk formally endorsed Trump over the summer, when the 45th president survived the first assassination attempt on his life this election cycle, and has since joined the campaign trail in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania to support and encourage people to vote. Drawing on his decades as a tech visionary and business leader who has personally dealt with draconian government regulations, Musk has made a specialty of cutting through red tape for his stump speeches and X's commentary.

Early Sunday morning, Musk posted on X that he was set to reveal to the public a bizarre alleged scheme in which his company SpaceX was “forced to kidnap SEALs by the government.”

“Tomorrow, I'll be telling the story of how SpaceX was forced by the government to kidnap SEALs, put earphones in them, and play sonic boom sounds to see if they seemed upset,” Musk posted Sunday morning.

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Musk's tease came in response to a clip of him Saturday in Pennsylvania saying he had “a bunch of nutty stories” related to government overregulation, including how SpaceX had to study the possibility of its Starship rocket hitting a whale or shark.

“SpaceX had to do this study to see if the starship would hit a shark. And I think… it's a big ocean. There's a lot of sharks. It's not impossible, but it's very unlikely. So we said, 'OK, we analyzed Can you give us the shark data?'” he said to laughter from the audience. He said the National Marine Fisheries Service has ordered SpaceX to conduct the research.

“They were like, 'No, we can't give you shark data.' Well, well, how do we solve this shark potential problem, they said, 'Well, we can give it to our Western Division, but we don't trust them.' I'm like, 'Am I in a comedy sketch here?'” Musk said in the clip.

“Finally, we got the data and were able to run the analysis to say, 'Yes, the sharks are going to be good.' But they wouldn't let us go ahead with the launch until we did this crazy shark analysis and then we thought, 'Okay, now we're done.' But then they said, 'What about the whales?'” Musk continued.

If re-elected to the White House, Trump said Musk could take a new position as “cost-cutting secretary” for the federal government.

“He doesn't want to be in the Cabinet,” Trump told Maria Bartiromo of Fox News' “Sunday Morning Future” last week. “He just wants to be in charge of cutting costs.”

“We'll have a new position: cost-cutting secretary. Elon wants to do that, and we have incredible people. He's running a big business. He can't just say, 'I think I'll go to the Cabinet.' Others can't, but Elon is a little different in that sense.”

Back in August, when Musk hosted Trump for an interview at XSpace, he focused his economic criticism on government overspending, fueling concerns about the current inflation that is weighing on Americans' pocketbooks.

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“Many people don't understand where inflation comes from. Inflation comes from excess government spending because checks don't bounce when the government writes them. So if the government spends more than it should, the money supply increases. If the rate of goods and services Than the money supply grows faster, but it's inflation,” Musk said during their conversation.

“So we really need to reduce government spending, and we need to reexamine… I think we need a government efficiency commission to say, 'Hey, where are we spending money that's smart. Where is it not reasonable?'”

Musk officially hit the campaign trail for Trump's candidacy last week, holding several rallies in Pennsylvania — a place Musk said he knows well, citing his Philadelphia residency in the 1990s while attending the University of Pennsylvania.

Speaking to an audience last week in Folsom, about 20 miles outside of Philadelphia, Musk highlighted how SpaceX received a $140,000 fine from the EPA for using potable water to cool a launch pad.

Former President Trump gestures during a campaign rally at Toyota Arena in Findlay, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Arizona. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

“I'll tell you a crazy, like, we got fined $140,000 by the EPA for dumping fresh water on the ground. Drinking water. That's crazy. I'll give you an example of how crazy it is. And we're like, 'Well, we're going to cool the launch pad at launch. Using water, we're going to cool the launch pad so it doesn't overheat, we've actually brought drinking water, so clean, super clean water,'” Kasturi told the audience.

“And the FAA said, 'No, you have to pay a $140,000 fine.' And we thought, 'But Starbase is in a tropical thunderstorm area, there's sky water falling all the time,' referring to SpaceX's headquarters in Texas no harm And they said, 'Yes, but we didn't have permission.' We're like, 'Do you need a permit for fresh water?'” Kasturi said.

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Musk argued that America needs to move from “solving one problem at a time” to building an industry that “inspires” residents as well as incremental innovation, but that “we're being massively slowed down by regulatory molasses.”

Elon Musk jumps on stage as former President Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Musk's campaign has apparently worried Democrats amid Trump's efforts to claim the Keystone State.

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Pennsylvania is seen as a state that will likely determine the final outcome of the election, with both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly zigzagging the state to drum up support among urbanites, suburbanites and farmers. Democratic Sen. John Fetterman warned party members not to discount Musk's influence among Pennsylvania voters.

“It's not even just that he's supported [Trump]But the fact that he's now becoming an active participant and showing up and doing rallies and things like that,” Fetterman told the New York Post, explaining that the hugely successful Tesla and SpaceX CEO Harris is an attractive figure for the kind of voters they need to win.

Sen. John Fetterman warns Democrats about Elon Musk's potential influence on Pennsylvania voters. (Getty Images)

“I mean, [Musk] He's incredibly successful, and, you know, I think some people would see him as Tony Stark,” Fetterman said, referring to the popular Marvel Comics character. His jumping up and down and stuff like that is fun. And I'll just say that they're our Doing so at risk.”

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