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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

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Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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After Musk helped tank a bipartisan bill to fund the government, Trump told conservative activists that he hadn't "ceded the presidency" to the tech billionaire.
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      Vice to the President.

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      Someone should take the Trump/Vance posters and turn them into Musk/Trump. That ought to get under his orange peel.

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        Someone should take the Trump/Vance posters and turn them into Musk/Trump into Musk/Vance.

        Cut Trump’s name out entirely, so he doesn’t even get a mention.

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        Only as long as we make Trump’s name in very small letters

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      I mean, he has added plenty of vice to the presidency.

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    We need to keep needling him. If successful, it would be incredibly fun to see him turn on Musk like he’s done to pretty much everyone else.

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        Musk is far wealthier and controls X, but Trump’s cult is locked to him.

        It would be an incredibly funny implosion of their relationship.

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        Honestly at this point I have no idea.

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            I agree: the Venn diagram of Elmo fanboiz and donvict’s fanboiz has a lot of overlap.

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    The fact that this loser still doesn’t grasp that he’s nothing but a puppet to smarter, wealthier people and corporations is a testament to how stupid he truly is.

    The guy’s a corpse being propped up with duct tape to make other people money. Weekend At Bernies, except it’s our national reality now.

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    Why be the president if you can just buy the present? No term limits, no accountability.

    It’s the art of the deal.

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    Of course he won’t be President. That would be a downgrade of his current position.

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      Just as an aside, if one guy can be CEO of 3 different companies and be whatever he is to Trump, none of those jobs are that hard.

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    “Musk told me I still get to sit in the Big Boy chair.”

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    Elon Tesla is a great man. A great great man. I spoke to him just the other day and asked him. I asked him,“you would be a great president! you want to be president?” He swore up and down, shouting from the streets even, that he wants me as president! “Nobody can do as good a job as you Mr Trump!” I ruffled his hair and told him he can be president of he wants after I fix everything. But right now, we’re going to Make America Great Again together! Like two daddies!

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    Narrator: He did.

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    Very real possibility he’ll be speaker of the house tho

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      Robber baron in the house!

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