If it's this easy to manipulate trump, just imagine how easy it is for Russia.
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Lmaoooooooooooo eel on musk played himself 😂
All part of the theater...
The hyaenas will be at each others' throats constantly. Trust will be there under 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Fight! Fight! Fight! (grabs popcorn and a few beers).
Lmfao. Good!
Trump ought to get congress to pass the spending bill just to show Musk who's boss.
Lol it's so easy to manipulate Trump into turning on people.
I think it was an YUGE step for Trump to admit he can’t do the job on his own. And, to let Rupert Murdoch and Vladdy Daddy make him let Elon have control could not have been easy. So kudos Don, for admitting you’re just not smart enough and needed help.
The greatest South African inserted Immigrant President of all time.
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It's lucky that Elon is the president and not Trump.
Keep saying it over and over.
Nothing in this article supports the headline directly. The last paragraph is.
"There’s no telling just yet how much of a rift this has caused between the two men, as Musk seems to be a long-term fixture in Trump’s inner circle. But if this kind of public one-upping continues, who knows how long this bromance will last."
Good good let the hate flow through you.
These men will only be broken through their ego. I had a feeling this was coming, but I thought it would take longer.
Oh, this is fantastic. A group of individualists will never function cooperatively
I'm optimistic that trump has built a pool of piranhas to jump into on January