MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev believes that celebrated US entrepreneur Elon Musk should start a campaign to amend the US Constitution’s requirements for potential presidential candidates.
When asked by a reporter during a visit to Vietnam whether Russia would like to see Musk as a future president of the United States, Medvedev replied that the entrepreneur "is not entitled to do so, because he is not a natural born citizen."
"But if I were him, I would think about starting a campaign to amend the Constitution," the Russian official added.
Article II of the US Constitution stipulates that: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President." Musk was born and grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He holds triple US, Canadian and South African citizenship.