While Elon Musk and his Starlink LEO constellation are obvious winners from Trump’s second coming, the wider implications for the technology and communications sector both in the US and worldwide are far more ambiguous and varied. This is not least because there are strategic and tactical dichotomies in Trump’s manifesto, given the vagueness in many areas. The situation is compounded by the polarizing nature of Trump himself, which is reflected in the scattered opinions on the impacts of his policies on science, technology and telecommunications. Most famously, just two weeks before the election, 23 Nobel Prize winning economists signed a letter endorsing Harris on the grounds that Trump’s policies would be far worse for the US economy and have negative…