Elon Musk 'will take knife to deep state' if Donald Trump triumphs, says Nigel Farage

Farage made a series of predictions about the race for the White House after touching down on American soil.

The Clacton MP, who was forced to water down his US trip after breaking his electoral hoodoo on July 4, was clear about his thoughts on Musk’s involvement in a Trump second term.

“This is the sexy bit: Elon comes in and takes a knife to the deep state. Just like when he bought Twitter he sacked 80 per cent of the staff,” Farage told The Telegraph.

“There are going to be mass lay-offs, whole departments closing and I’m hoping and praying that’s the blueprint for what we then do on our side of the pond.

“Because that’s what Reform UK believes in - that we’re over-bureaucratised and none of it works. This assault on the bureaucratic state is the thing that’s really exciting.

“They’ll all be gone. They’ll all be fired. Why do we need Whitehall with all these useless, ghastly Marxists? Universities have all become madrassas of Marxism. The whole thing is appalling.

“Trump’s first term taking on the deep state was impossible because they had no idea how it worked; he finished up with a lot of people around him who weren’t supporters and who were imposed upon him.

“They didn’t know an American president has the power to appoint 3,000 people. This time they have been working really hard on that for 18 months.”

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Farage, who also urged Trump to concede if Kamala Harris emerges as the victor, was snapped wearing a MAGA hat in the light blue shade of his own populist party.

Trump gave “Mr Brexit” a shout out as Farage received a warm reception from loyal Republicans in the Keystone State.

Speaking just hours before polls opened across the US, Trump said: “You have a man from Europe here, I don't know if he's here, I saw him backstage.

"What he is doing is sort of what he did a few years ago. He's doing a great job, he's always been my friend for some reason.

"He liked me, I liked him. And he's shaking it up over there. He was the big winner of the last election in the UK."

Reform UK returned five MPs on July 4, with the Liberal Democrats, Tories and Labour Party all returning significantly more MPs to the House of Commons.

However, Farage’s praise of Musk comes shortly after ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson waded in on the tech billionaire.

He told CNN: “I gather that Elon Musk is going to come in and cut two trillion off government spending.

"So if that's the agenda, then I think that needs to be looked at seriously, because I I do I do think there is a case that Western democracies like the UK, perhaps like the US as well, that the state has got too big."

Johnson also rejected concerns about Trump abandoning Ukraine if he wins the keys to the White House.

He said: "But I believe on the basis of what Donald Trump has done in the past that he will be robust. I really do.

"I cannot believe that a guy who is so passionate about his country, about Making America Great Again, which he wants to do and is so convincing about that, would want to kick off that his next Presidential term by basically allowing the Soviet Empire to be great again. I can't believe that he will allow that to happen."

Polling website FiveThirtyEight puts the 2024 US Presidential Election as a coin-flip contest, with Harris leading by 2.1 per cent.

Trump leads in Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona, taking the ex-President just eight-points from the White House on 262.

Harris is ahead in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, putting her on exactly 270.

Nevada would remain too close to call but in such a scenario would not knock Harris off course.