Trump Sure Seems Pissed at Elon Musk Over the Spending Bill | Donald Trump isn’t taking the “President Musk” rhetoric well at all
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Reporters need to start asking trump how he likes working with such a wealthy person as Musk...
Their egos are too big to coexist
They should ask Trump if, while hanging around Musk, Trump has now seen how rich people live.
They should ask Vice President Trump if he enjoys working under "President Musk"
First Lady Trump*
Let him think the public (rightfully) sees him as Elon's bitch.
Nah, demeaning to women, and I'm not even the type to say that for a lot of things.
Let's make Trump Elon's First Lad.
First man Trump, although does it counts for the title if they're not married?
Now, now. We don't need to. Trump's already volunteered for the position.
Like Ilgar Rahimov for Putin?
Mr Vice President, what's it like going from Putin's bitch to Elon's bitch?
This is the way
This is the way.
Lol it's so easy to manipulate Trump into turning on people.
It's lucky that Elon is the president and not Trump.
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 Vladmir 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.
That fuckin dunce is never going to be smart enough to admit fault in anything. Dude could shit his pants and blame someone else in the room the next day, no problem.
I think he does shit his pants. MAGATs went through a phase of "real men wear diapers".
We have audio of him clearly shitting his pants on camera
Like, why the fuck weren't more people memeing with that?
Unsurprisingly, this also works on Trump supporters. They get furious when you even go so far as accidentally and unintentionally imply that Musk's opinion will influence Trump's actions.
"We didn't vote for Felon. Wait, ok, not that Felon"
Wait until JD Vance remove Trump using 25th amendment see how that blows their minds.
8 years ago I'd have thought "Elon will step out of the limelight to avoid upsetting Trump so he can use his White House access to make a ton of money." Now, I know he's just as narcissistic and stupid as Donald Trump is.
Something in him changed. Broke. Maybe all the drugs fucked him up. Idk. I used to look up to him. In the last say decade, I’ve condemned him. I’d love to see him flogged in public.
His origin story is that he bullied a kid so much for dead parents in his school that the kid eventually pushed Elon down the stairs and he swore to never be able to be picked on again.
He's always been a villain he was just charismatic enough and pretended to be the good guy until the mask broke and he went full villain to try and put the mask back up.
I can't even be excited for the awesome things some of his compaines are doing. The engineers ar Space X are doing amazing work but all I think about when I see it is Musk.
“So I guess it goes from Putin to Musk to trump to the cleaner’s… right, Kent?”
Hot damn I get this reference and love that movie!
Right? A Real Genius quote in the wild just made my day!
Yeah don't see many quotes from that movie! It's in my top 10 and I own that movie. Great sound track too.
At the risk of sounding naive, what movie is this a reference to?
Real Genius it stars Val Kilmer.
Thanks! Didn't realize that was the movie even though the other comment mentioned it. I thought it was a joke about Trump claiming he's a stable genius.
You're welcome. You got to check it out. A great 80's movie.
"It's times like these I ponder the immortal words of Socrates who said... 'I drank what?!'
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
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."
If it's this easy to manipulate trump, just imagine how easy it is for Russia.
I have also done a lot of drugs and made this face.
"I'm in fucken space rn, I wonder if anyone can tell I can't feel my lips"
Used to make that face back in the day, too.
I still do, but I used to as well.
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.
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.
This has been obvious from day 1 of the Trump and Musk show. Trump is an ego maniac and does not like other people taking the lime light.
Trump is predictable in that sense but then highly unpredictable as he turns to his next round of courtiers and sycophants.
Trump ought to get congress to pass the spending bill just to show Musk who's boss.
We really need to lean into this
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.
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.
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.
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.
That was an autocorrect error. None of those fuckers trust each other one bit.
I hope president Musk can keep his hired goon under control.
Hired goons?
We need people at every Trump event holding up giant signs that say “We ❤️ President Musk!” Line the streets leading to Mar-a-Lago with these signs!
Then rinse and repeat for every other shitheel that’s aligned with the Orange One.
Good good let the hate flow through you.
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!
Daily reminder that it's always a good idea to tweet Trump with messages like "why aren't your ideas as good as <insert scumbag here>?"
Get them in the habit of tearing each other apart and we can keep them occupied for most of the next 4y.
Ohh and the egos on both of them. This is going to be like working on a marvel movie.
How many Scaramuccis will elon last?
I mean, at the moment we're still in the negative Scaramuccis, so there
The president has a 4 year term
It IS President Musk.
So, if musk does become speaker of the house, he also is 3rd in the line of succession.
He's foreign born. He can't legally be president... unless someone changes the US Constitution.
When you’re a billionaire you just pay your $134 million and play a fossilized dumb shit like Donald Trump, no need to change the constitution.
Cater to his ego. Invite him to a very special interview on social media. All so you can futz around with the government to make even more money for yourself.
Again, no need to change the constitution. Just manipulate Trump instead.
The Constitution has changed many times
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution
But, now that presidents can not be charged for "official" acts, who knows?
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-5002157/supreme-court-trump-immunity
Surely the leopard won't eat my face!
Every President needs a first fancy lad, Donnie.
An X-wife if you will.
Fight! Fight! Fight! (grabs popcorn and a few beers).
Looks like we found (again) his weak spot. Take his power away, and he freaks out.
And bright orange, like a target.
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
All part of the theater...
These men will only be broken through their ego. I had a feeling this was coming, but I thought it would take longer.
Keep saying it over and over.
Well we all know it's true, Trump is mentally weak and is easily manipulated by President Musk.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Who? Not ringing any bells.
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.
Lmaoooooooooooo eel on musk played himself 😂
Tee hee.
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.