Democrats are pushing ‘President Musk’—to troll Trump

Democrats are trying to get under President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters' skin by quipping that billionaire Elon Musk is the real leader of the Republican party.

The terms "President Elon" and "President Musk" were both trending on X, the social media platform owned by Musk, on Thursday and Friday—after Musk spoke out against a bipartisan spending bill that would have averted a looming government shutdown.

House Democrats began dubbing the alternate proposal—which...