The billionaire says his social media platform has replaced traditional media. The truth is more complicated. In the wake of Donald Trump’s massive Election Day victory, Fox News host Bret Baier questioned whether Elon Musk might be “the future” of the Republican Party. Indeed, Musk hitched his fate to Trump when he bankrolled some of Trump’s campaign through his America PAC, and hit the campaign trail himself as a Trump surrogate in stump speeches and town halls.