Elon Musk's controversial $1 million swing state giveaway concluded with the final prize going to a man who worked on Donald Trump's campaign.

Tyler VanAkin was pictured on election day at an Atlanta airport as the final winner of the contest run by Musk’s pro-Trump campaign group, which offered $1mn prizes to registered voters in swing states who signed a petition “in support of the constitution”.

Musk's Tesla stake rose by $111 billion — 65% — last year. All but $2 billion of Musk’s Tesla gain and about 98% of what other Tesla shareholders gained came after Election Day, when Musk began hanging out extensively with Donald Trump and started calling himself Trump’s “first buddy.

The publicity was a potential boon for AfD, which has been frozen out of mainstream politics, in part, because its leaders have downplayed Nazi atrocities.

Musk tested the boundaries of foreign election interference, hosting AfD co-leader Alice Weidel for a livestream interview on X.

In a Wednesday interview on X, Elon Musk said cuts of $2 trillion to the federal budget might not be possible and was a "best-case outcome."