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Summary
“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.
Elon Musk’s growing influence in Donald Trump’s orbit is reportedly irritating members of the former president’s inner circle.
Since his efforts helped secure Trump’s reelection, Musk has been highly visible at Mar-a-Lago, taking credit for Trump’s victory and acting as if he’s a “co-president.”
Musk has joined key diplomatic calls and even attempted to broker peace with Iran.
Despite his appointment to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, some close to Trump feel Musk’s overreach and need for attention may jeopardize his position, as Trump dislikes sharing the spotlight.
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It’s going to be 4 years of basically watching all of these imbeciles gnaw at eachother while everyone else’s quality of life just dies around them. Lovely.
Meanwhile, in the Democratic Party headquarters…
“At least the economy is doing well.”
Ah yes… “the economy”… or in other word’s rich people’s yacht money.
Nah, last time, Trump had entirely fired and hired a new staff by the end of the first year. Elon is too attention hungry and Trump won’t like the spotlight taken off of him constantly. I’m fairly confident Elon will be one of the fastest staff members to be relieved of duty.
remember: First Lady Elon Musk
Secret Service codename: X-wife
I was thinking : Melon-Head
Elonia Trump.
First bromance Elon Musk.
Musk has joined key diplomatic calls and even attempted to broker peace with Iran.
That’s a pretty clear violation of the Logan Act. Gettin’ blue from holding my breath over here.
I’m sure the judiciary is gonna take care of it.
Just after they have some tea and cake.
Are the people singing yet?
Sadly, no, we were forced to eat the minstrels in the frozen lands of Nador.
Brave Sir Robin…
I’m sure Gutless Garland will get right on it.
Who are we all really kidding with any semblance of expectations, though? It hasn’t even been 100 uears since Kennedy and the crack job that was the Warren Commission.
Historically the Logan act has been interpreted to not include the Presiden-Elect and their incoming administration.
If the things mentioned this is the most “normal”.
Is it possible to be part of an administration if you’ve only been named as part of a department that doesn’t exist?
That specific precedent likely doesn’t exist as most new cabinet level positions aren’t created by President Elects.
All of the people swirling around in the sewage that is donvict’s thugs are probably pissing off each other, because all of them are Karens, FFS.
Even annoying AF people get annoyed by other annoying assholes…
Republicans: “Billionaires are just better than everyone else and we should all get out of their way and hand them the keys to everything for the betterment of all mankind.”
Republicans After Being Forced to Spend One (1) Week Around Elon Musk: “No, shit, wait, these guys are fucking idiots!”
I forgot there were going to be potentially 3 CEOs in the Whitehouse. They’re going to get under each other’s skin like you wouldn’t believe. We’re still fucked but the infighting should be quite enjoyable.
As a European, I’m here with a bucket of popcorn in one hand, enjoying the shit show. I’m of course scared for what will happen, and the consequences will impact the entire planet, but since I have absolutely nothing I can do about it, the enjoyment will suffice.
All of Donnie’s boys sitting in the “work in the White House together” challenge like
Even funnier context is that this episode he was annoyed at Tesla. 🤣
Nah this gif is from Season 11, Episode 5 “Mac and Dennis move to the suburbs”
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4359300/
The Tesla episode is Season 16, Episode 8 “Dennis takes a mental health day”
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt28056422/
Both absolutely hilarious episodes and the second one specifically a testament to how good of a show IASIP is when 16 seasons in they can blend modern day to day issues with something like the insanity of Dennis’s character
Yep. Best to enjoy the circus and try to ignore you can’t leave the show.
It’ll be the first time in his life he is not the boss. That’ll likely lead to a problem.
has joined key diplomatic calls and even attempted to broker peace with Iran.
I have to stop reading the news here. I can feel the aneurysm growing in my head.
Non American here but is that not against the law? He is no official representative…
Likely, but who is going to do anything about it? My country is an embarrassment and proven that there are no laws for those under a certain status/value.
Yes, specifically the Logan Act.
I’m no american either so no idea. There are quite some things where I as a European can only think either “wtf, how is that legal?” or “wtf, that makes no sense”.
Especially that the president can apparently choose any people with any qualifications (or a complete lack thereof) for any position whatsoever. even if they are completely unsuitable or even completely contrary to the purpose of the position.
A modern democracy should have certain safeguards in place. Or at least some fucking standards and requirements.
The 3 branches of government that are supposed to serve as a system of checks and balances on each other have been overtaken by greed and fear.
As we have learned over the last few years, laws are only as strong as their enforcement mechanism. If the institutions responsible for upholding the law fail to do that, or even enable violating the law even more, then the law is useless.
Only reason that’s allowed is the Repuglican infatuation with the orange
Are we going to see Trump Admin Churn before he even takes office!?
How many Scarumuccis will some of these douchebags last?
Money on we end up with a new time scale for shortest tenure by January 20th
You murricans and your weird units. In Europe, we use the lettuce!
Didn’t see this coming from about 136 miles away. Oh no…
I’m looking forward to 4 years of great and annoying articles like this
He doesn’t want to be co-president. He’s a founder of the USA.
Trapezoid Musk wants to steal the attention away from Trump. He will never allow that. I pray they will clash at each other
In a ring in vegas. I’d ppv that.
So funny that Musk has specifically chickened out of a fight like that.
No no, his mom said he couldn’t play.
we already know they hate each other this happened last term for elon/trump too.
I’m gonna call bullshit on this. For years now, I’ve been reading articles just like this one, and at the end of the day, nobody that could change anything did a fucking thing. It’s just posturing and means nothing.
Everybody hated everybody and I didn’t like what Trump was doing, but I fucking did it anyway. Buy my book.
Pre-covid Musk quit Trumps presidential councils over “withdrawal of the Paris climate accord.” If nothing else, theres a possibility, I guess…
Pre-covid Musk was still pretending to be a liberal.
Yeah, well…
Happened once, doesn’t mean it’s can’t happen again. No matter how unlikely, this time.
I’m thinking at this point he can’t un-ring that bell. Maybe he has a stroke and pulls a reverse Fetterman, or better yet, has a stroke and pulls a Winston Churchill.
“nobody that could change anything did a fucking thing”
Actually, things did happen. Many things happened. Your ignorance of them doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
In this case we have an incoming chaos presidency. Government by chaos doesn’t work well and tends to return to stasis not least because people tend to want to do their jobs. Musk will disappear onto his next ADHD and excessive wealth-fueled adventure, probably Vance will have Trump shuffled quietly to the side (or maybe out a window) and the infighting among cabinet members and political appointees will ensure that few of Trump’s “promises” are kept.
There will be lots of damage, many people will suffer, and recovery will take a long time. But out of that things will change.
Yea, lots of things did happen, and most of them were bad. The people that I’m referring to that “could change” things are the republicans that could use their votes to stop tyranny, but none of them did.
I hope that you’re correct that we will see change from this, but I don’t agree with you that Musk is going to fade into political irrelevance and that JD will sunset Trump.
Trump has promised a cabinet position to every insufferable asshole in the country who insists that everyone accept their own fringe views and talks over anyone who disagrees, while also knowing nothing about what they’re talking about. This is gonna be funny to watch, but painful to experience.
