the speaker of the house has to be eligible to hold the office of the presidency—natural born citizen.
God forbid if something happened to the POTUS and VP, but couldn’t Musk defer to the next in line.
“the speaker of the house has to be eligible to hold the office of the presidency—natural born citizen”
Can you share where are you getting that from please?
Elon has a lot of mental bandwidth (far more apparantly than even his fellow billionaires), but at some point he is going to run out.
... or at least someone with a backbone and who is not testicularly-challenged.
Musk would qualify under the African-American exemption.
No he doesn’t.
The Supreme Court would decide if that particular Speaker could be installed as President, should it become necessary.
This is not remotely serious, it is designed to inflame the libtards. Which I expect it will do quite well because they are that stupid and will not see it for what it is.
Keep them foaming at the mouth all the time. Makes them just behave even more irrationally.
Let’s get serious - that’ll never happen. And if it did, the vast difference in IQs between Musk and the Pelosi-thing would cause a massive rip in the spacetime continuum.
Heckuvan insight: Second in line of succession to the presidency, so could not be eligible to assume the highest office. Question: Does that necessarily preclude a person from Speaker? Is it possible the succession would skip this spot and go on to . . . President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
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I don’t think this is the case. A speaker who is non-eligible to hold the Presidency would just be skipped over for the President Pro-Tempore of the Senate if it came down to it.
Nope.
The succession would just skip over anyone who is ineligible.
For example, there was no issue when Henry Kissinger was Nixon’s Secretary of State. That position is 4th in the line of succession. Kissinger was never eligible to be President, but he could still hold a position that was in the line of succession.
Where do you get that idea?
If the speaker is not eligible, then the next in line who is eligible will be president.
Being speaker is a full time Job. Elon is already on his path.
I suspect Elon can accomplish more in his DOGE position.
Do it.
Not true - he has to be a natural born citizen to actually assume the office of POTUS - not to be in the line of succession.
In the unlikely event that both the President and the Vice President are sidelined, he could simply be skipped over.
I don’t believe that is the case. If a situation arose where a foreign-born Speaker was in line to be President, they’d simply skip over him and go right to the Senate President pro tempore as the next in line.
Matt Gaetz................that’ll shake things up!
Nah. Musk has plenty on his plate rather than wasting time in congress.