Well we all know it's true, Trump is mentally weak and is easily manipulated by President Musk.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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We really need to lean into this
Ohh and the egos on both of them. This is going to be like working on a marvel movie.
Keep saying it over and over.
I guess donvict better keep that "Truth" "Social" scam running for a while, because he's going to need a platform to bleat on about Elmo when he gets pulled from Xitter.
Is there any way we can encourage this civil war between Trump and Musk
Wait, Trump means "Fart" in British slang
and Musk is how animals smell each other and stuff..
They're both smelly!
Just keep pointing out the reality, that President Musk is really running the show, while puppet dumpy takes orders.
It's not new. Take a look at all the billionaires telling him what to do. He's not in charge.
Fight! Fight! Fight! (grabs popcorn and a few beers).
He can’t do fuck all, Musk was elected president. Trump can smoke a fat dick.
I think this is hilarious. I wonder if they have some kind of agreement that trump can't just back out of. Maybe it was a handshake deal and he's just now getting annoying enough?
It isn't really an 'agreement', it is power. Money is power, and that makes Musk extremely powerful. He has shown that he can literally buy congress - either directly, or by threatening to back challengers. And while trump has the title of President, he doesn't have the power: it has been shown that trump backing a person just isn't enough to get them elected any more, unlike Musk's money backing a person.
But people actually stormed Capitol Hill and went to jail for Trump, not Musk. I don't see any backwater dispossessed citizen taking part in a coup for Temu Tony Stark.
What Trump is too stupid to realize is that this is Musk's presidency. Trump has always been a puppet to money and Elon can just buy him off, like he bought his way into Tesla.
And Musk os too stupid to realize that Trump cares about the image of holding piwer, not about the power itself. He's very easy to control from the shadows, but Elon can't keep his face out of the public eye.
Let's hope his ego doesn't let him realize that
The hyaenas will be at each others' throats constantly. That will be the one defining feature of the next Trump administration.
This specific tension happened a lot sooner than I expected.
Let's see... a guy famous for (among other things) owning a company that builds electric cars teams up with the guy who said he wants to outlaw electric cars. Fireworks were inevitable at some point.
No it's a guy who wants to be king vs a guy who wants to hold the whip but both view themselves as heroes and the greatest gift to humanity.
One thinks his personality is what won him over and will keep all the support of his followers and one thinks he's the smartest person in the room and his correctness will show that he deserves all his followers.
It's cult leader narcissist vs cult leader narcissist. They don't even have to get to policy before the breakdown occurs.
I don't think EVs are the key issue here. The key issue are the grotesquely overinflated egos they both have. It's basically impossible for them to accept anyone as equal.
It's called narcissism and they are both textbook examples of it.
Tesla produces primarily stock market manipulation schemes, cars secondly...
The value isn't tied to the cars they produce now, so it doesn't matter how many cars they actually sell.
Trust will be the one defining feature of the ~~next Trump~~Musk administration.
That was an autocorrect error. None of those fuckers trust each other one bit.
All part of the theater...
Lmaoooooooooooo eel on musk played himself 😂
If it's this easy to manipulate trump, just imagine how easy it is for Russia.
Oh, they are not getting along. Is it time to pacify the populace with some WWE drama!?
Who is the heel Muskrat or Aotus? Maybe they will take turns, won't that be entertaining!
so...we can just pit the vipers against each other until they bite each other to death?
Thats the plan.
Too bad instead of getting to watch from the sidelines safely, we are stuck in the arena with them.
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