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Summary

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s joint interview with Sean Hannity reinforced concerns about Musk’s influence in Trump’s administration.

During the White House discussion, Musk dominated the conversation. Hannity cut Trump off to follow up on Musk’s remarks, mirroring a similar dynamic at a recent press conference where Musk spoke significantly more than Trump.

Musk defended his actions to dismantle parts of the federal bureaucracy, arguing it was necessary to restore democracy.

His prominent role raises questions about his power in the administration, especially given his substantial financial contributions to Trump’s campaign.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sush. Go away. You're not the president.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so glad he can't run for president.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno the ussc might rule that since there's no enforcement mechanism explicitly tied to the limitation in the constitution, it is one of those laws that Republicans can ignore. Like they did with the 14th

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Damn you're right, I forgot it was a techbro fascist takeover.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago

“[Rich people] should be caring more about the country because—the reason they should be caring about—more about country is: America falls, what do you think is going to happen to your business?”

Musk not realizing that he and Trump are bringing America closer to the brink than ever through their inept and abrupt actions.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

“I’d like to also just send a message—like, because, as the president said, like, this—there’s a lot of rich people out there,” Musk said. “They should be caring more about the country because—the reason they should be caring about—more about country is: America falls, what do you think is going to happen to your business?”

“What do—what do you think—do you think you’re be going to be okay if—if the ship of America sinks? Of course not. Like, what—what I’m doing here, what the president is doing is it’s just long-term thinking. The ship of America must be strong. The ship of America cannot sink. If it sinks, we all sink with it.”

Okay, sure. But let me ask this: if Biden had had a second term rather than Trump, would ship America have sunk? I don't think so. I can maybe see some areas where someone who favors Republican policies would say "American might be weaker", but it seems pretty wildly unreasonable to get from there to "sunk". Trying to claim some sort of imminent, existential crisis seems pretty unreasonable for pretty much anyone.

I haven't paid much attention to Trump's people speaking to the press recently, but I saw a video the other day from one of his advisor crowd, and he was doing the whole "America has to be saved" thing too, and it was pretty over-the-top.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Although I voted for Bernie, I have always been pretty sure that if he were elected president, both parties would work against him in congress and the judiciary as well and he would achieve very little.

But achieving very little is better than what's happening now.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Forget Biden. Bernie Fucking Sanders could have been elected to 2 consecutive terms starting in 2016 and the US would still , right now, be a highly capitalist society with fabulously wealthy corporations, and basically the same number of billionaires. Americans just might have more affordable healthcare and education, that's all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

And Al Gore in 2000. 9/11 would have never happened and we'd have flying cars that could go through Stargates.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

I'd much rather interview Musk than Trump too. I mean, Trump is going to give you a rambling, incoherent response and not in the least bother to make it consistent with what he says at any other point. There's just not a lot of point in interviewing him. People have interviewed him plenty of times before. It's awful.

People who like Trump don't like Trump because he's making much of a coherent argument that you can analyze or poke holes in or try to ask for clarification on. They like him because the general gist of what he's saying is in line with what they want to hear.

Musk is a lot closer to what you'd normally expect to get when interviewing someone. Like, he's going to give a real response that you can talk about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

… like he was injected with methamphetamine and rabies… projection again

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago

“They wouldn’t be complaining so much if we weren’t doing something useful,” he continued.

OR you really are doing something monumentally stupid to a system you dont understand nor taking the time to understand.

“What we’re really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president. And what we’re finding is that there’s an unelected bureaucracy—speaking of unelected, there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet.”

You mean the president should be a king and their will law even if it goes against everything the country stands for.

To late to tax the rich we gotta eat them.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When Trump attempted to join in on the answer, Hannity seemed more eager to follow up on Musk’s response, explicitly cutting the president off.

“Sean, you’re a—” Trump started, pointing at the Fox News host.

“This is important,” Hannity responded to Trump, raising his hand to stop him.

Trump must still be reeling from that one

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago

Man I'm really hoping trump's narcissism gets to him

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Like I said in my other reply, I cant see it in the article. Probably blocked by my ad blocker

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1892398346746417441

It ends immediately after Hannity stops Trump so there's no reaction. But it happened.

It's in the article too in case you don't want to give them traffic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for sharing. I opened the article, but couldn't see a video. Probably blocked by my ad blocker

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

The sycophantic media must be so sick of desperately trying to sanewash whatever salad issues from Trump's face that Musk, however dishonest and wrong, is like a swimming pool bar after 40 years in the desert.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Donald 'Bottom Boy' Trump

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Death to tyrants.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

President Elon at it again.