India, Dec. 2 -- US President-elect Donald Trump picked Indian-American Kashyap "Kash" Patel as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Following the declaration, Trump loyalist Patel joined social networking site X on Sunday.

"Hello X," one of Patel's initial posts read, garnering over 13.9 million views.

Tesla CEO and X owner complimented Patel on his nomination to lead the FBI.

"Congratulations on being nominated to run the @FBI!" Musk responded to his post. Notably, the billionaire himself has been picked to co-head the new DOGE department in the next US administration.

Over 485.2K individuals started following Patel, a former Republican House staffer and ardent FBI critic, after he joined the social media plat...