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.
When was The Orange Fart Person of the Year?
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.
I didnt know that, don’t think I’ve ever read a Time magazine. Thanks for the info.
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?
Fuck yeah. Hurt this cunt the only way he understands.
Dang. He’s going to burn the desk now, isn’t he?
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
Jesus Christ, is this newsworthy?
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
Donald′s classic ″You are so lame and unpopular, nobody knows who you are″ rebuttal. Such a quick witted mind he has.
LOL…this is glorious! Elon’s firing to commence in T minus 10…9…8…
One can hope, but doubtful
The exact same scenario played out with Steve Bannon, and Trump fired him. I’m don’t see Elon faring much better.
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 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.
I am just SO glad that I never bought one of his cars.
Kimbal Musk’s sale of approximately $27 million in company shares also comes as Tesla is set to have its worst week since the U.S. presidential election, in part due to what Bloomberg classed as “shockingly bad” sales reports from Europe — which could indicate Musk’s political activities in the U.S. are hurting the EV’s profitability, according to a Friday report. Tesla sales in Germany plummeted to their lowest figure in four years last month, while sales in France and the United Kingdom also declined.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-cfo-board-members-offload-142507093.html
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.
Hey now. I don’t think you’re giving Cersi enough credit there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard speculated
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.
Musk seems like the type to be enamored with dead man switches. Although, I’m not sure if he’s smart enough to actually use any
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…
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?
Elon is already gearing up to fire Trump? Damn, that was quick.
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.
Time Magazine?, 60 minuets? Can we at least be stupid in this century?
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.
Yep. Kissinger was alive damn near a hundred years.
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.
That’s the truth.
Time Magazine didn’t lie (this time)
It’s not his Resolute Desk
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.
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.
