Tesla stock was rising in early trading on Thursday. Elon Musk and trade are driving shares higher. Shares of the electric vehicle maker were 2.9% higher in premarket trading at $367.30, while S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were 1.

Elon Musk’s journey through the halls of the U.S. government, a more than four-month period during which he roiled the lives of tens of thousands of government workers and upended large federal agencies,

The world's richest man is making his views on a variety of subjects well known in Washington as he returns his attention to his many businesses, including Tesla and SpaceX.