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.
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.
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).
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
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…