A temporary Tesla showroom
I somehow missed this yesterday. Ignorance was bliss. Trump did a car commercial on the White House lawn while Musk brandished his kid as a human shield.
President Donald Trump turned the South Lawn of the White House into a temporary Tesla showroom Tuesday in a conspicuous favor to his adviser Elon Musk, the car company’s billionaire CEO.
Tesla delivered five of its vehicles to the White House and parked them on a driveway for Trump to personally inspect, hours after he said on Truth Social that he planned to buy a Tesla to demonstrate his support for Musk and for the slumping company.
Ok ideally he would do nothing but this from here on out, but nothing is ideal so in reality it’s so gross and embarrassing and deliberately insulting that there are no words.
Because of ethical restraints, it is extremely rare for a senior government official, let alone a sitting president, to endorse a consumer product so explicitly. In 2017, when then-Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway told Americans to buy from Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, she received a warning from a government ethics office and promised never to do it again.
By reviewing the Teslas in public before cameras, Trump ensured that his purchase would get wide attention. Dan Scavino, a White House deputy chief of staff, livestreamed the event on X, the social media app owned by Musk.
I’m guessing that government ethics office no longer exists?
Didn’t Trump do a Goya bean commercial during his first term?
My husband has suggested that the office was disbanded because there are no ethics to monitor any more.
When a country elects a TV (or film) star to the presidency, it can expect the president to be solely interested in publicity. Who needs ethics, when you have a smile?
He wants to be an entertainer, it’s just that he’s not capable of being entertaining. I suppose he equates Ratings! and Headlines! with entertainment. A boring sort of boor.
The office of White House counsel doesn’t exist anymore, so I doubt it.
You can’t “roll coal” in a Tesla…
Tigger, Zelenskyy would like a word.