The public unraveling
Ok this is just plain hilarious.
The alliance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk spectacularly imploded Thursday as the world’s most prominent bromance collapsed into mutual public trolling.
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The public unraveling began in the Oval Office, where Trump spoke to reporters at the start of a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
“Elon and I had a great relationship,” he said. “I don’t know if we will anymore.”
Oh I know. Did you hear what Sally said to Lucy about it? It’s like all over the school.
The quarrel escalated rapidly from there, with the two men blasting out angry posts on their respective social media platforms.
Which I cannot help laughing at. We knew how childish they are but still – it is hilarious that they’re that helpless at ass-covering. I think we have a good chance of seeing them pulling each other’s hair and screaming on live tv.
By late afternoon, Musk was writing on X that he agreed Trump should be impeached and replaced with Vice President JD Vance.
That sentence caused me to laugh loudly enough to wake all the neighborhood dogs – genuine unforced shriek of laughter.
He further signaled his estrangement from Trump’s orbit by “unfollowing” Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s top aides, whose wife has been working for Musk.
Er ner, nert ernferlering!! The ultimate tragic end of a beautiful friendship.
Musk volleyed back, declaring it was “time to drop the really big bomb” that Trump “is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day DJT!”
When dickheads fall out.
The unraveling “happened faster than I thought,” said one Musk ally, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject. “What Elon really wanted is to be president, I think.”
Hahahahahaha yes that is quite a hasty unraveling.
Was Elon thinking Trump would make him president?
Tesla investors braced themselves as they watched Musk’s relationship with the president go up in flames. “Can someone please take the phone away from him! wtf! tesla is getting destroyed,” investor Ross Gerber, a onetime Musk booster, posted on X.
Oops! Bad business move was it? How sad oh well never mind.
H/t What a Maroon
Did you mean Trump instead of Musk?
Musk is even more unqualified than Trump to be president. In addition to having no idea how the government works, he doesn’t meet the constitutional requirements (as thin as they are).
Well if he can buy enough Congressional Republicans, that might work. Supporting anti-Trump candidates in the midterms could become a way for him to get back at Orange Julius. If enough Republicans can be convinced that their duty to the country is more important than their fear of Trump, there might be enough votes to make an impeachment stick. A few generous campaign contributions might open some eyes (however opportunistically) to just how bad Trump is for America and Americans. Even though it would be for his own egotistical reasons, in a perverse, “Only Nixon could go to China” kind of way, Musk could help to topple Trump.
MY PLATFORM CAN BEAT UP YOUR PLATFORM!
Trump going after Musk’s business interests would just spur him on to retaliate, just as Trump will never let Musk win. At this point, unless some miracle raproachment transpires, they’re both playing for keeps. It’s a match to the death; the narcissism of small differences, armed and fueled on each side with essentially limitless resources.
I have to say that I was surprised by Musk’s claim, read elsewhere, that he’s decommissioning his spacecraft. I rather expected that he might be planning to launch them as planned, then land them on various Trump properties.
My world view would not crumble if he were to have an “accident” in the not too distant future…
iiknklast @ 1, yes I did; fixed.