Trump turns on Time after new cover shows Musk sitting behind his Resolute desk
Summary
Donald Trump mocked Time magazine after its latest cover depicted Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk, questioning if the magazine was “still in business.”
While pretending indifference, the cover likely irritated him, as he was ecstatic just months ago when Time named him 2024 Person of the Year.
Speaking at the White House, Trump tried to dismiss the cover’s implications and praised Musk for uncovering “fraud and corruption.”
Despite his criticism, Trump has long craved Time’s approval, even displaying a fake cover of himself.
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hahaha! Grab him by the ego!
when you're rich they let you
There is something truly next level about bragging to rich people about how much you enjoy something simple.
This comes to mind
That's hilarious, thank you for the laugh
Haha. Was he trying to fuck with Larry?
No, he does not care at all. Nope. Doesn't care about what the media says. No bearing, none.
He handled it well in fact, saying he thought they Time was out of business, then complimenting Elon's performance in his role.
...the Liberal media painting this as a huge win, rather than honestly admitting "We're too scare to ask about Musk's conflicts of interests because we represent the same rich assholes ge does" is part of how they contribute to the disconnect between politics and reality... And it's part of how the election was lost, via sane washing, clickbaiting, and selective ignorance.
This is the same guy that was beefing with Rosie O'Donnell for how long?
Oh, and still has an axe to grind with SPY magazine's founders, from shit they said about him in....checks calendar....the 80s?
Still whiny that Obama has a bigger crowd size than him.
I wonder if, like Hitler being a failed artist, if donvict had actually felt he was successful and actually accepted by most people that he looks up to (and they don't accept him, since he's a weird freak) if his life would have had a different turn. Maybe they should have given him some talk show on TV or radio and make him feel Bigly Important at various events where TMZ or whatever is there to fawn over him.
Fuck. I can totally envision him as a sadistic Jerry Springer type talk show host, deliberately egging on guests in the hopes they beat on each other. While he watches with one hand in his trowser pocket, discretely rubbing himself
Would have kept him distracted though, as long as they made sure to have pretty journalists from the celebrity beat always asking him softballs like how does he keep his hair so golden and his skin so bronze?
In all seriousness, though, he had floated the idea of running for office several times before, and even started in some kind of half-assed way. What I think finally really put him over the edge was Obama. It was really clear that donvict was just obsessed with him, and it drove him nuts to have a Bla in the White House. Just like so many other assholes just like him that watched Faux all the time...I bet his obsession with Obama will probably play a bit part in historical narratives about him - it was so evident in so many things, most especially how he was so butthurt over it that he sent Spicer out in that suit to scream how yooooge donvict's crowd size was!
Melissa Mccarthy as Spicer still cracks me up. Attacking with the podium.
I do wonder if that's what had him out in just a few Scarumuccis...the thought that donvict's rep was being played by a gay woman must have made donvict just grind his teeth.
Journalist: "We have found reason to believe there may be a conflict of interest in the way SpaceX receives government funding!"
Official: "Nonsense! He is a brilliant entrepreneur, blessed by the free market!"
Journalist: "But if he receives government grants and also holds influence over government decisions, shouldn’t we at least investigate?"
Official: "Investigate? Are you mad? That’s not how modern governance works!"
Journalist: "How does it work?"
Official: "Well, if he weighs the same as a rocket... he's a genius!"
Crowd: "A genius!! Burn the critics!!"
Journalist: "But that doesn't make any sense!"
Official: "Look, strange billionaires distributing subsidies is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of regulatory oversight, not from handing out massive contracts to one's own companies!"
Journalist: "So you'll investigate?"
Official: "What? No! Now go away, or I shall dismiss you a second time!"
Elon is already gearing up to fire Trump? Damn, that was quick.
One can hope, but doubtful
Musk and some more background people likely saved the Trump campaign from financial ruin. He couldn't be rid of them if he wanted to.
He could shift his soft power approaches against Musk. That is, if Trump's understanding of soft power were better than Cersi Lannister.
However, Trump doesn't generally seem to care about how much someone has helped him in the past if one minor slight shows up. If Musk can't help him at this very instance, he'd be open to throwing him under the bus. He abandons people fast
Musk and his friends understand soft power better than Trump does. That is, understand it at all. They have more options if that happens.
His campaign is over. He is president now. And he can do whatever he wants... and has been doing exactly that.
My sister speculated that somebody (probably trump...) uploaded something far worse than "the pee-pee tape" to twitter and musk inherited that when he bought the site.
But even that only goes so long and... trump has SCOTUS backing to send seal team six after whoever he wants.
On your last point, I'm surprised that Musk isn't more visibly worried about assassination attempts. He's really not making friends with anyone in government or otherwise, and the one guy backing him is a bad mood away from testing his full immunity powers and seizing several billions for himself. Like, if I had that kind of fuck off money, I sure wouldn't be putting my neck on the line for this.
Yep. If Musk or at least one or more of his DogeBags doesn't end up with some extra holes or thrown out of window within the next four years, I'd be surprised, for all the reasons you say.
I'm sure most of the Deep State leans hard right, and I bet most federal workers probably tend to be all over the map, despite what idiots like Steve Bannon say. I'm sure some of the hard right types think it's hilarious to see fElon fucking with liberals to "own them" by destroying various departments that the more idiotic and clueless right doesn't care very much about [1].
But he and "bigballs" or whatever the fuck his incel DogeBags call themselves are doing much, much more than just "owning the libs" and I'm sure it's pissing off people that have some real dangerous skills and tools and will not forget easily....fElon and his boiz are the types that are completely unable to read the room, thinking that everyone is cheering them on, when they are just smiling, and sharpening their knives, and waiting for the right moment to strike, and not necessarily figuratively....
[1] Like USAID - dipsticks like fElon probably had no clue it's about soft power. I bet there are people within the Deep State that know this and are seething mad about it, and are actually far right. fElon might have stepped on a rake w/o realizing it right from the jump, by picking something he thought was going to have no real defenders on the right (because it's about white people giving black people money or whatever, in their minds).
That's why I kind of agree with "the dumbest thing (some troll has) ever heard speculated". musk clearly has enough dirt that it has kept his head attached after all the "president musk" memes.
Thing is, fElon may be fucking with things that end up having the hard right come after him, and someone or several people that don't know about, or really care, if something personal about donvict is released.
He already has the racist wing pissed at him over the H1B thing - as usual, it's not about any sort of populism; they don't really care that much about American workers getting fucked, or the indentured servant aspect, or how this is just there to further enrich the already obscenely wealthy, they are more focused on having foreigners on our shores, and they don't like it at all.
Musk is willing to hold his nose about having non-whites here if it will make him more money and he can abuse American workers AND foreign workers at the same time - bonus!
But yeah, other than just having a shit-ton of money, he seems to be doing nothing to really forge any lasting alliances...
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard speculated
Hey now. I don't think you're giving Cersi enough credit there.
Elon is filthy rich though. There is a difference.
He’s rich so far, but he really seems to be alienating his consumer customer base. If he keeps this up, his car company could crash as fast as it grew, and maybe his other customers will start reacting
He's worth over $400 billion. He could literally set warehouses full of cash on fire and not notice.
He owns stock currently worth a ridiculous amount. It’s worth so much that tanking Twitter was no big deal, and of course buying a government position is cheap.
But that stock is tied to the value off a small number of companies, especially Tesla. If people stopped buying their products because of that ceo, that’s going to take a couple hundred billion off the top. Yes, that does seem to be happening in Europe. Meanwhile Chinese companies are eating their lunch in most of the world and the us is apparently going back to some smog filled dark medieval time
It’s unfortunate that their cars and other products are still compelling, still have features unmatched by any competitors
And of course there’s spacex, and other companies, not yet impacted.
I am just SO glad that I never bought one of his cars.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-cfo-board-members-offload-142507093.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/tesla-shares-set-for-worst-week-since-election-as-sales-plunge?sref=Hhue1scO
I totally agree with your take other than that their cars are anything special at this point - what features are unmatched by competitors? Yes they were innovative at the time but they currently don't lead in efficiency, range, charging, ride quality, interior quality, and FSD was/is an absolute grift.
Elon is going to demote Trump and make him his special little Gaza emissary
Are we taking bets on how many scaramuccis he's got left?
I wish the independent hadn't used such a high def photo of him-- you can really see all the nooks and crannies of his shit ass bronzer shotgun applicator. He looks so fucking old. I doubt he's making it through the next 4 years alive.
You'd think that, but these evil assholes seem to live forever.
Kissinger also wasn't a fat, lazy, demented old crybaby. he was as cold as he was evil. and was in relatively good shape for much of his life, certainly compared to big beefy Donnie boy.
Guaranteed that he has no idea the Times person of the year doesn't mean the greatest and bestest person of the year. Just the world's biggest shit disturber of the year, for good or ill.
Donald′s classic ″You are so lame and unpopular, nobody knows who you are″ rebuttal. Such a quick witted mind he has.
TBF Elon actually uncoverd a lot of corruption. Just not the way Trump thinks
Indeed. The day after inauguration, Elon woke up, walked to the bathroom, flipped on the light, and stared straight ahead, instantly discovering corruption the likes of which America has never seen.
Oh now that's funny.
FREE SPEECH! FREE SPEECH! unless it's something I don't like
The irony of these first amendment people targetting the press is that the text of the 1A specifically mentions freedom of the press...
People like to quote the 1A as all about being MY SPEECH
Psychological warfare. Trump's an easy mark. We need more of it...
Hey, instead of asking him about a magazine cover - then acting like it's some huge win when he pretends to think the magazine was out of business, and goes on to complete Musk...
....maybe just maybe, you could ask him how Musk's department might go about investigating SpaceX grants and the government funding it get?
You could even use bog adult journalism terms like "Conflict of Interest".
It's only a matter of time before some MAGA psychopath goes all Charlie Hebdo on some media outlet that insults Trump.
I wonder if the media would ever have the balls to call out what, and more importantly why it was happening, or would they all bow and kowtow even further.
Time’s latest pantomime—a Musk-Tump fusion seated at the Resolute Desk of Delusion. Classic. The man who thinks truth is a flexible spreadsheet and the guy who thinks “fraud and corruption” is a compliment. Peak propaganda.
Trump’s “indifference” is as convincing as Musk’s “genius.” Both crave validation from the same media they pretend to despise. Pathetic. Time’s covers? Just participation trophies for oligarchs cosplaying as revolutionaries.
The real joke? Watching these clowns orbit each other’s egos while the world burns. But hey, at least the Resolute Desk now doubles as a therapy couch for billionaires with daddy issues.
Okay, but this is seriously funny.
It's not his Resolute Desk
Any good politician would at least think twice about this before just attacking them back like a little child. If I were president and this would happen, I would work on fixing my image instead of ruining it even more.
The last 10 years have been one of bullying and turning people into hateful assholes.
LOL, donvict is just such a predictable little butthurt baby.
Time Magazine didn't lie (this time)
When was The Orange Fart Person of the Year?
Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938
Donald Trump: Person of the Year, 2024
just a reminder that 'person of the year' is not necessarily 'good person of the year'..
it is awarded to people who have had significant impact on global events during the year (i.e. 'news makers')--good OR bad.
Unfortunately, adhering to traditionalism means inflating the ego yet further of dictators. I'd rather the whole thing went away altogether (that would have been a real statement if they'd just left the thing blank).
Can we just find a way to surprise mega-dose these fuckers with magic mushrooms already?
I didnt know that, don’t think I’ve ever read a Time magazine. Thanks for the info.
Dear Trump: You will never find true happiness, whacha gonna do? Cry about it.
Your friends are laughing at you behind your back. Kill them.
Your daughters scheme against you, your horses have escaped.
Dude is seriously running out of time to find it, too.
If all our media outlets would treat him with that kind of respect we might have a better shot at kicking his sorry ass out
Elon next PotY?
you misspelled Potus
He's president of the yankees
De facto, not de jure. Not that any such jure matters anymore, but you get my drift.
I meant next opus, but I get your point
Well good, I'm glad he turned on time. Would have been terrible if it was off.
Jesus Christ, is this newsworthy?
Dang. He’s going to burn the desk now, isn’t he?
Hah straight out of succession
This is hardly news
Time Magazine?, 60 minuets? Can we at least be stupid in this century?