“If people wish to work in Europe or wish to work in North America, they should be allowed to do so in my view,” Musk said, adding that this “has certainly been my advice to the president”.
Musk, who has been close in the past to Italy’s rightist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party, has also expressed support for Salvini’s League.
Both groups have a hard-right agenda based on law-and-order, tax cuts and cracking down on immigration.
Italy’s Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti, who is from the League, said earlier on Saturday the government wanted “de-escalation” with the US following Trump’s tariff announcement, and warned against imposing retaliatory tariffs.
Last month, Musk expressed gratitude to Salvini after the League chief said Italy should pick his Starlink company to obtain a system for satellite communications.
