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    4 hours ago

    He keeps saying “illegal” but it’s pretty evident he doesn’t know what that work means.

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    13 hours ago

    I love how Trump thinks he’s symbolizing something by paying a small amount of money back to Musk after he collected that massive amount for his campaign. Dude, if you didn’t already buy his car, what the f*** message were you sending to him.

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        Someone who is bored should make a trump text translator. That could be great fun. Dump in trump-speak, output English.

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    22 hours ago

    Trump calls Tesla boycott ‘illegal’

    Is this the free market I keep hearing about?

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    Gosh, and I thought it was illegal for a president to record a car commercial for the world’s richest man.

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    20 hours ago

    Just like how it’s illegal to NOT advertise on X. All according to President Musk.

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    If Obama advertised any company during any of his official duties there would be people foaming at the mouth to remove him and imprison him for corruption.

    But with Trump it’s just Tuesday.

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      Presidents are not allowed to drive over the Secret Service rules. He can be in the car. Just not driving.

      Though given its safety issues I highly suspect that the Secret Service will not allow him in the car.

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    Yeah, this article does not have a direct quote for that. It just has a quote of him saying he was going to buy one. Why put it in the title if you can’t show the quote? Or did I miss it where they quoted him saying boycotting tesla is illegal?

    He says enough bat shit crazy shit you don’t need to “trust me bro” quotes to get clicks.

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      RTFA.

      “I’m going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show of confidence and support for Elon Musk, a truly great American,” Trump wrote in a post published early Tuesday morning on Truth Social.

      Trump said “radical left lunatics” are “illegally and collusively” boycotting Tesla, which the president described as one of the best automakers in the world. This action, Trump said, was meant as an attack on Musk and what he stands for.

      Trump also said that he would deem violence against Tesla dealerships to be domestic terrorism, according to Reuters.

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            Pretty much isn’t good enough for this. Maybe I am being critical, but when you use this article as an example, the first thing your MAGA granddad is going to say is, “Where’s the quote?” In my experience, you need it plainly spelled out to make a difference.

            I am going to leave it now because, truthfully, I’m not trying to fight or pull a gotcha on you libs; I can’t stand the shit bag either. I just feel like if you are a news source trying to fight this shit you might want to provide the actual quote and not paraphrase it. If I missed a truth social link then my pihole is working lol

            Edit: also we weren’t talking about the yahoo article they posted the whole quote. I am being critical of MSNBC for paraphrasing.

            Okay now I’m done lol

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              The direct quote is “But the Radical Left Lunatics, as they often do, are trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla”.

              Tell me what part of my quote in my previous comment isn’t direct.