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The relationship between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk has taken a dramatic turn, evolving from a close alliance to a public and contentious feud; providing the perfect ingredients for some dramatic parody.
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When Elon Musk, once Donald Trump’s golden-haired tech bro, dared to call the “One Big Beautiful Bill” a fiscal trainwreck, the 45th-turned-47th President didn’t just take it personally – he took it to another dimension. The fallout from their bromance, once sealed with a $300 million campaign cheque and a Tesla parade at the White House, has unleashed a Trumpian tirade so juvenile it makes a toddler’s meltdown look like high diplomacy.
Picture Trump, red-faced in the Oval Office, rage-posting on Truth Social at 2 a.m.: “Elon Musk? Total LOSER! I made him, folks. MADE HIM! Without ME, he’s just a guy with bad hair and a toy rocket!” The outburst came after Musk, ex-czar of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE, naturally), slammed Trump’s deficit-busting bill and flounced out of Washington. Trump’s response? A masterclass in immaturity, accusing Musk of “betraying America” and claiming, without evidence, that “Sleepy Joe rigged Tesla’s batteries to explode!” The conspiracy mill churned harder when Trump hinted Musk was “in cahoots with China, probably Mars too,” because why stop at one planet?
Trump’s Truth Social rants escalated, each post a fever dream of ALL CAPS and exclamation points. “ELON’S A FRAUD! I bought a Tesla – worst car ever, folks! Selling it for scrap!” he bellowed in his latest Truth Social voice, conveniently forgetting his inauguration joyride in a Cybertruck. He threatened to nuke SpaceX’s NASA contracts, snarling, “Let’s see how Elon likes landing on the moon when I pull the plug!” This put the Artemis program and the International Space Station’s deorbit plan at risk, but Trump shrugged, claiming, “I’ll build a BIGGER space station, the best, gold-plated!” Meanwhile, he spun a wild tale about Musk hiding “secret Epstein files” in a Tesla glovebox, insisting, “I know things, folks, BIG things.”
The economic fallout was brutal – Tesla’s stock tanked $138 billion, and Musk’s net worth shed $34 billion – but Trump reveled in the chaos, crowing, “That’s what happens when you cross the Donald!” His base lapped it up, but when Musk teased a “Techno-Freedom Alliance” party, Trump’s paranoia hit warp speed. “Elon’s building a robot army to steal my voters!” he wailed, vowing to ban AI unless it salutes the flag first. As the feud spirals, Trump’s conspiracies grow wilder, his tantrums louder, and America watches, popcorn in hand, as the MAGA king battles his former tech prince in a circus of cosmic proportions.
In private, sources say both men remain furious but intrigued by the attention. “They’re like scorned exes who still read each other’s Facebook posts,” one advisor said. “If they weren’t billionaires, this would just be two dudes arguing in a McDonald’s parking lot.”
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Soon, to a ring near you, the world event of the age, two fartweights slugging it out for access to your money..,it is a duel, loaded bowels at twenty paces, winner gets water.., loser gets a used Tesla..,no ridiculous lie will be excluded. Heroic...let us just sit and await being robbed, bilked, cheated, stripped, ignored, abused...
It's a comforting thought to know this certifiably insane madman is in charge of the world's largest nuclear arsenal.Or is he?The attack on some of Russia's nuclear armed bombers could not have happened without vital input from the CIA, or M16, but the Orange fuckwit would not have been informed, because he's only interested in self enrichment or revenge on his detractors.
He's obviously not the only madman in a highly dangerous administration.Albo doesn't need to read the tea leaves to get the hell away from the yanks,it's shouting in his face.
America has morphed into one giant Hollywood set.with numberless bad actors.
This pair of screaming, whinging, nasty and just plain loathsome things make grumpy 3 year olds look refined and polite.
And now the Orange Emperor is warning Elmo not to back the Democrats OR ELSE! Grr, grr.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5338592-donald-trump-elon-musk-consequences-democratic-donations/
From the Guardian, wrt the rioting in Los Angeles as people protest against ICE roundups of people for deportation...
"Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner and the White House deputy chief of staff, wrote on social media that Friday’s demonstrations were “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States”. On Saturday, he described the day’s protests as a “violent insurrection”.
Ah, the ironies just keep on coming... Miller, the Goebbels doppelgänger du jour, must be acutely aware of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but pretends, nothing to see here.
On top of Goebbels's malicious threats, we have the puppy-shooting Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem saying: “A message to the LA rioters: you will not stop us or slow us down. @Icegov will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Reflect on the last sentence. Rioters attacked police and other officials on Jan 6, 2021, and were subsequently prosecuted, and jailed, until Trump's return, when they were pardoned, charges dropped, released from jail.
In America, 'do as I say, and not as I do.'
That's their Catch22: if you don't protest or take some sort of action, there's no opposition to the implementation of their agenda; if you do protest, you're "rioting" and the next step is the imposition of martial law.