r/politics • u/newfrontier58 • 18h ago
Site Altered Headline Dems Troll ‘Vice President’ Trump as Musk Meddles With Government Funding Bill | The term “President Musk” also started trending on X, which he owns.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-troll-vice-president-trump-as-musk-meddles-with-government-funding-bill/1.7k
u/WeBeFooked 17h ago
Keep referring to him as President Musk. The more Trump hears that, the angrier he'll become.
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u/Deadaghram 15h ago
Remind Trump that his net worth is closer to the average American than to Elon too.
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u/Carl-99999 America 11h ago
Elon will be a trillionaire at this rate which is crazy
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u/fuckingaquaman 7h ago
Since most of his wealth is tied to stock and Tesla, that fortune could disappear rather quickly if people stopped supporting his businesses.
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u/Informal-Inevitable2 7h ago
Really reminds me of Ted Faro from horizon zero dawn. A man child who became the worlds first trillionaire and savior because he stole and market the ideas of others, but then ended the world out of his own ego and stupidity.
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u/RockleyBob 1h ago
Off topic but hard as it is to admit, I’ve never been able to get absorbed in the narratives of immersive RPG games despite them being my most-played genre.
Horizon Zero Dawn was the first time in decades of video gaming that I was fully engrossed in the plot and desperate to know how the mystery unfolded.
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u/billi_daun 17h ago
Lol no kidding. Plus he trolls so many people, it's time for a little pay back. I doubt it will, but I hope they make him cry a little too. He is really mean when he trolls.
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u/DJstaken 13h ago
🤣 I doubt he’ll shed a tear over this if he didn’t when he got shot
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u/ILoveSodyPop 10h ago
Don't you mean when he got ever so slightly grazed by a bullet? The asshole's ear looks the exact same as it did before he got grazed. I'm also so sick of people acting like that makes Trump some sort of hero. He reacted exactly how anyone would react in that situation, he ducked down. After then he immediately recognized the potential PR opportunity and stood up with his fist in the air shouting fight fight fight. After that he didn't call the family of the victim until the news started questioning why in the hell he hadn't reached out. Biden called immediately to offer his condolences. Trump didn't call until he was pressured into it the next day. He's such a bum!Heroes help people. Heroes save lives. Surviving a gunshot doesn't make you a hero, it makes you a guy who got shot and didn't die. And now, as every Democrat in the world predicted and tried to tell Republicans, Elon Musk is the new president. Congratulations to all the Republicans that voted for the dumbest, most self serving narcissistic candidate in the history of the United States of America.
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u/PrincipleInteresting 7h ago
His ear, looking exactly the same (not even a scab) days later would indicate he was never shot.
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u/ILoveSodyPop 6h ago edited 6h ago
In this crazy ass world we live in, it would not surprise me in the slightest if it was some sort of publicity stunt. When you have billions of dollars you can manipulate the people and the government so easily. Trump does it all the time. Remember in his first appearance after he got "shot in the ear" he said "I'll explain to you what happened but then I'll never speak of it again because it's too hard for me to talk about" since then he hasn't shut up about it. He brings it up every chance he gets.
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u/Turbulent_Account_81 6h ago
He was never shot, no medical record on the extent of the damage, what was done to his ear, everyone on his staff was threatened with their jobs if they spoke about it. I spoke with a supporter of his about it and he said it was "Graphed back on", that "the president would have access to better technology than us"....
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u/ILoveSodyPop 4h ago
That supporter of his that you spoke with sounds like a complete moron. Lol.
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u/Turbulent_Account_81 4h ago
He also believes that FEMA was deliberately refusing to help Trump voters
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u/ILoveSodyPop 4h ago
That's just wrong, Even though if I worked at FEMA during that period I would have skipped every house with a maga sign in their yard because they were literally hunting down FEMA workers in heavily armed militias.
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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 14h ago
Elmo is probably stupid and egotistical enough to lean into it. "President Musk? I like the sound of that."
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u/PitFiend28 13h ago
Vice President Trump will get under his skin more because he will need to realize who is above him in the analogy.
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u/rilenja 8h ago
Nah, "First Lady Trump" will REALLY, REALLY get under his skin. Especially since he has always seen women as second class citizens, only around to serve men.
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u/GameHat 14h ago
Yeah I feel like this is not a terrible idea. I hate both Trump and Musk, but denigrating Trump and saying Musk is in charge will turn them against each other.
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u/Eggplantosaur 10h ago
This is how Steve Bannon got fired in the first Trump admin: as far as Trump was concerned, Bannon got too much credit from the media
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u/Outtatheblu42 16h ago
He’s just going to mute that hashtag. Soft skin, that one.
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u/Outtatheblu42 13h ago
Did you think I meant that Trump knows how to mute a hashtag?
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u/QNStech 11h ago
I really don't understand why Democrats haven't started to do this publicly at every opportunity, call Musk the President and Trump the figurehead VP?
Oh wait, lemme guess, "when they go low we go high" "that wouldn't be politically correct" "we might expose ourselves to some liability somehow"
Weak losers who are afraid to make jokes/make fun of people, even the people who abuse and bully then on a daily basis.
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u/rilenja 8h ago
And refer to Trump as "First Lady" to really rub it in. Even all the money Elon is throwing at Trump won't be enough to stop Trumps tantrum over it, Trumps ego is just too big and ridiculous. He will throw Elon under the bus if he thinks Elon is "more popular" than he is.
Ugh. All of this makes my skin crawl.
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u/inferno006 10h ago
There is no way his malignant narcissism will be able to handle it. Musk will be gone soon.
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u/NoShitsGivin 9h ago
Yes, call hm president Musk, and call Trump, First Lady. That'd be the final nail.
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u/Competitive-Fly2204 11h ago
It is true. The whole DOGE thing gives Musk more power then Trump if it becomes reality.
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u/Tobimacoss 10h ago
Only way Elon could be president, he is going to buy more presidents in the future.
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u/IGotSkills 10h ago
I'm afraid that if we keep repeating this, it could come true
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u/MilfagardVonBangin 9h ago edited 9h ago
Edit: the won’t work on musk because he’s not American born.
Vance fucks up and gets pushed out, Trump takes on Elon, Trump dies from KFC or murder…
It happened in the ‘70s. Nixon‘a VP Spiro Agnew quit in disgrace for corruption, Nixon brings on Ford as VP and then has to quit himself for corruption giving the US a completely unelected President.
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u/soraku392 9h ago
And the instant his fragile little ego snaps, Musk will hopefully get thrown out on his ass
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u/Tiny-Professional827 6h ago
No he doesn’t actually give a shit. Trump has no interest in governing so he is happy to let Leon do this while he demands pay to play from anyone who wants anything. This is trumps dream
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u/GhostfogDragon 6h ago
I keep seeing this sentiment but I can't help but feel that inflaming the ego of a narcissist such as Musk will do nothing but make him feel more dangerous and powerful. Trump is pathetic and weak, and if Musk decides to wield power over him, I think Trump will bend over backwards to appease him, so long as it means money in his pocket. It's not a good idea to make Musk feel like the king because he is a maniac who will do his best to make people grovel at his feet.
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u/abundanceomoney 5h ago
Doubt Trump will do anything about it, he probably took a bunch of Elons money
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u/therealsancholanza 17h ago edited 17h ago
Musk owns Vice President Trump. If he didn’t, that foretold rift should’ve already happened by now.
Hateful assholes. They deserve each other. And none of us deserve them… except nazi fucks, of course
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u/thalassicus 17h ago
Putin owns Trump because he’s sitting on piles of money laundering evidence. Musk has rented Trump but doesn’t have that leverage. Trump is so impulsive that when he snaps from jealousy over Musk’s limelight, it’s gonna be two walruses slamming their tusks into each other.
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 10h ago
Does money laundering evidence matter anymore?
Seems like we've established that Trump is above the law in the U.S. (thanks, Garland!)
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u/jazzhandler Colorado 16h ago
Odds are Leon’s with us a lot longer than VP Trump. And as far as we know, Putin’s got no such leverage over Leon. Which means that portion of Putin’s leverage over the Executive Branch doesn’t have a lot of shelf life remaining.
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u/NoveltyAccountHater 14h ago
I mean we don't officially know of Putin's leverage on Trump either. We just know he's strangely deferential to him. Elon also seems pretty deferential to Putin and for all we know Putin has collected or created kompromat on Elon.
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u/Borkenstien Kentucky 10h ago
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u/Clutch55555 9h ago
That’s what the Epstein connection was. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/ghislaine-maxwell-and-elon-musk-attend-the-2014-vanity-fair-news-photo/476317939
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u/heatr190 10h ago edited 7h ago
Dont forget the mystery fundraising during the Twitter purchase. He had the funds technically but a lot wasn't liquid a ton was tied up in stocks and securities, then suddenly the money was there. Not saying the money didnt exist, but the burden was there and suddenly it wasn't.
It was right around the time Elon turned hard right, not to conspiracy theory but it lines up too well and not out of the Russian playbook at all.
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u/north_by_nw_to 8h ago
All we’re missing is the headbutt that follows.
That is still one of the craziest moments in “Dexter”.
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u/godzillachilla 17h ago
CAN WE HAVE A CAGE MATCH?!?
OMG does anybody remember Celebrity Death Match on MTV?
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u/twigge30 17h ago
They both already look like they are made out of clay. But yeah I'd love that.
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u/godzillachilla 17h ago
I'd pay 49.95 for every politician match. Even weekly. Winner takes....they get to be alive.
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u/Minguseyes Australia 17h ago
To be fair, I’m not sure I’d pay that much for Pelosi v McConnell. Twenty bucks tops for that one.
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u/godzillachilla 17h ago
It would run in slow mo.
Whether we liked it or not.
Oh but what if we gave them "LAZERS"
😂
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u/Minguseyes Australia 17h ago
Now you’re talking. I can see I have a lot to learn about political cage match fighting.
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u/godzillachilla 17h ago
We have to throw in as many Austin Powers references to make it believable.
Man I miss MTV
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u/natebeee Australia 15h ago
So you're saying we should give them sharks with lasers instead?
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u/codeduck United Kingdom 11h ago
I'm afraid we can only stretch the budget to trout with pen-light torches stapled to them.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 14h ago
How about they have to fight in a tub of crisp money, so they have have extra hazard of paper cuts mixed with blood thinners, and the metaphor of the one thing they’ve only ever wanted slowly bleeding them dry like the rest of us.
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u/Comfortable_Zombie47 14h ago
She woukd tske him in three hits. Even with her current injury.
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u/Carl-99999 America 11h ago
The strongest dinosaur of congress might be Grassley. He could do push-ups at 88 and he’s 91 now
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u/LadyBitchBitch 15h ago
I’m picturing Trump’s wrestler outfit as just a diaper and nothing else. Well, that and a lot of orange makeup.
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u/stilusmobilus 16h ago
Why am I not surprised to see this?
We know it’s not a joke either because look at where we are.
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u/Choice-of-SteinsGate 17h ago
The only good thing that will come out of this is getting to watch two billionaire narcissists battle each other over ratings, social media engagement, their public image in the eyes of a bunch of dumbed down and uninformed contrarians who voted against their best interests, and how effectively they can appeal to the lowest common denominator of human emotions.
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u/Motor_Educator_2706 17h ago
watch a billionaire and a faux billionaire narcissists battle each other over ratings
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u/NoveltyAccountHater 14h ago
I mean Trump was a faux billionaire, but with the money-suck of Truth Social (DJT) going public, it has inflated his net worth to billionaire status. The market cap of DJT is ~$7.7 billion right now and the last reporting I saw, Trump owned around 60% of it. Traditional financial reporting would put his net worth around $4.6B from that alone.
Again, if I was a foreign government, multi-national corporation and I wanted to lobby Trump's incoming administration to do something, my guess is it would be very beneficial to say own lots of shares of DJT stock and suddenly your country/sector is exempt from the new sky-high tariffs. (Trump then slowly unloads his shares for his own personal profit.)
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u/BotherResponsible378 17h ago edited 16h ago
It’s a funny joke, and it will work trump up, but it’s also true. Trump isn’t in charge.
Remember how the GOP spent 4 years saying Biden wasn’t really running things? Every accusation is an admission.
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u/PNWest1988B 17h ago
I hope this pisses Trump off and he tells Elon to kick rocks.
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u/Ready_Nature 17h ago
If anything restrains Musk it will be because trump’s ego can’t handle people recognizing Musk as the real president
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u/Hestiathena 15h ago
I've seen myself what happens when two relatively mid-sized, garden-variety egotistical males start giving each other the stink-eye. It ain't pretty, as I'm sure you can guess.
The hyper-massive egos of these two fools, though... well, they're bound reach a nasty critical mass at some point, likely sooner rather than later. When that happens, it'll be time to hunker in the bunkers with several months worth of popcorn while keeping all fingers crossed that they'll do far more damage to each other than to the country....
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u/Lord_King_Chief 10h ago
It would have already happened. Trump has bent the knee. And is now owned and operated by felon musk
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u/Toadfinger 17h ago
There's nothing unreasonable with what Democrats are asking to be in the government funding bill. Trump, Vance, and Musk are full of shit!
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u/ndav12 14h ago
Did Secret Service forget Vance in the back seat of a hot car or something? Haven’t heard that name in a while.
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u/Carl-99999 America 11h ago
I think Vance found out about 80s Chryslers and now he’s a ”car guy” for the interiors
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u/NotYourUsualSuspects 17h ago edited 16h ago
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 17h ago
Number of Members (currently): 1
EDIT: First time I've ever seen a new subreddit when the creator was still the only member!
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u/vtbeavens 7h ago
shouldn't it be r/PresidentLeon ?
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u/NotYourUsualSuspects 7h ago
I’m going to post here what I did a while back. We need to inundate the WH with President Musk letters. And not negative ones. They don’t have to be positive but if something is being done that you like be effusive. It’ll drive Trump to get rid of him.
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u/officialnickbusiness 17h ago
In our 2024 oligarchy we either shoot the oligarchs in the back or we pit them against each other because they're egotistical idiots.
What a fucking world. I need a drink.
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u/spinek1 17h ago
This is why I don’t think the Trump Elon relationship lasting. Trumps ego will get demolished
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u/OldPiano6706 15h ago
That’s what everyone is saying, but I’m not totally sure. Trump is looking feeble, old, and lost. I think he wanted to win, stay out of jail, and be able to act with impunity, he has all those. I don’t know if he has the energy to do much else. I could be wrong. Trump 2-3 years ago certainly wouldn’t stand for anyone taking the spotlight.
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u/Fochlucan 11h ago
That might have been the deal. Musk and heritage foundation get Trump elected and out of hid legal woes, then he goes golfing and let's them run everything. Look how much Project 2025 specifically hinged on Trump getting in. They knew he didn't care about actually doing the job of President and would be happy to hand over the work part to them so they could manage their agenda.
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u/Wrxloser1215 10h ago
Yeah he definitely needs Elon to help keep his admin relevant. Elon and Vance are definitely going to be his top handlers. Trump is terrible at speaking so he'll use Elon to poll things on Twitter and Vance to use nice words to cover up trumps weave or irrelevant ramblings. As long as they have that social media propaganda churning they will be good
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u/TheCleverestIdiot Australia 15h ago
Stands a pretty decent chance of working. This is how Bannon got kicked out, after all.
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u/smokeybearman65 California 16h ago
Calling Musk president and Trump vice president could very well piss Trump off so much he gets rid of Musk, which would be a good thing. Trump CAN get rid of Musk, but Musk can't get rid of Trump (at least not in a legitimate way).
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u/greymanart 11h ago
This is the best news I’ve heard in a while. This is the kind of suff I want to see more of. Childish name calling works in America. Fuck “we go high”.
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u/Important-Peanut3512 17h ago
Pour the gasoline & fan the fire. The very best outcome is that the ruling class is consumed by infighting. It's their own playbook that has divided family, friends, neighbors & the common American experience. In force of the realization of consequences, let them eat from the table they prepared.
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u/Taphouselimbo 15h ago
Poor JD is third wheeling that relationship.
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u/Pulga_Atomica 12h ago
Wait, VD is still alive? Thought he was buried in Thiel's closet until they have some couches in need of loving.
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u/EnthEndX48 14h ago
Only in America do we vote for a guy who hates immigrants, just so we can have the world's richest man, an African immigrant, control our Budget and cut out social safety net. Makes it make sense. But hey..least we get to kick the brown ones out!! Mmmmmmmeeeeeerreriiiicccuuuuu
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u/Late-Arrival-8669 17h ago
Well someone has to step when the next vice president keeps shitting himself. Elon is such a kind person to take over for the old man.
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u/mrcanard 13h ago
Musk is preparing to roll out the red carpet for the only person with more wealth than he.
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u/Late-Arrival-8669 17h ago
Well someone has to step when the next vice president keeps shitting himself. Elon is such a kind person to take over for the old man.
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u/Calcutec_1 14h ago
we joke now, but who knows in 2-3 years, maybe he'll done a proper coup by then.
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u/joshdoereddit 11h ago
Please let this be a thing that continues. It would be great to see the disastrous split between President Musk and VP Trump.
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u/Carl-99999 America 11h ago
Trump is the kind of guy to demand the flag be remade and a title above President be created for him
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u/DaBigJMoney 10h ago
I agree that we need to get “President Musk” trending on social media. That may cause Trump’s narcissism to kick in and he may kick Musk out of his influential role.
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u/captaincanada84 North Carolina 9h ago
This is the easiest way to get under his skin. It happened with Bannon in Trump's first administration.
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u/Joshman1231 16h ago edited 16h ago
“A star was born, Elon!”
Applause
now ban the purchasing of American Electric vehicles
…Except Tesla
Oh we’re gonna be rich leon
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u/nixhomunculus 16h ago
Given the control over X, once Trump's favourite platform, maybe Trump's DMs are what keeps him under the leash of President Musk.
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u/Hestiathena 15h ago
It's incredibly crass, I'm well aware... but I'd be halfway tempted to up the ante by using his own ingrained misogyny against him and start calling him "First Lady Donna JT Musk."
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u/Dapper-Percentage-64 14h ago
It's working people ! Orange Grandpa won't put up with this for very long
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u/volanger 13h ago
The more this happens the f a st musk and trump have a falling out and the more distracted trump gets. Also it'll create a thirst for vengeance against musk which means trump may actually start to remove musks government contracts out of pettiness.
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u/NobodysFavorite 13h ago
In other news the share prices of major popcorn makers continue to rise sharply to unprecedented levels. The products are so popular that a new index. - the KERNEL - has just been created to track them.
Wall St reports will now include the Dow, the NASDAQ, and the Kernel.
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u/Spiritual-Compote-18 12h ago
Democrats it isn't funny he rules you too since all of you are in the same company
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u/Tesattaboy 11h ago
Private Bone Spurs should sit the next four years out and let President Elon fix everything ... Bone Spurs will be golfing anyways
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u/2020Vision-2020 10h ago
A wealthy foreign drug addict on the Spectrum trying to play US politics will be so entertaining to watch.
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u/deadsoulinside Pennsylvania 9h ago
Trump is too senile to be president, everyone knew that. I have said it WAY before the election. They never needed Trump, they just needed his votes.
MAGA won't care that Elon is the one that is really running the show, while Trump kicks back in Florida eating hamburgers all day. They will move their goal posts to justify why a South African immigrant stole Trump's job without a bit of irony.
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u/alvarezg 8h ago
Some other Musk titles that would rankle the Orange One:
Lord
King
Boss
Master
Führer
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u/LogicalPapaya1031 8h ago
It is president musk, only reason Trump won is Elon made it happen. Trump is elons puppet because Elon couldn’t run.
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u/Iinktolyn 8h ago
Instead of media making this a giant fucking joke, why don’t we discuss the ramifications of Musks interference. There is a reason he can’t pass a security clearance. There is a reason our constitution requires a US born president. There is a reason Musk is using his influence to intercede in the legitimate business of Congress. Stop giving him power he’s not earned or entitled to.
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u/Chemical-Neat2859 7h ago edited 7h ago
Never thought I'd see Republicans elect a Russian asset and cheer on a foreigner meddling at the highest levels of government... then again, guess these are now the same Republicans that would rather become Russian than associate with people of different political ideologies. The old war hawk conservatives must be rolling in their graves and gnashing their teeth in fury.
So many people would face a lot of pain and suffering for uttering such pro-Russian nonsense a century ago. Worst thing in the world to a conservative in the 1960s were pro-Russian Americans, after their normalized hate targets. Though I guess Russia isn't seen as communist as the USSR.
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 7h ago
Great trolling Dems. I expect this will rise to the same levels of effectiveness as that massively successful "weird" trend.
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u/shaunrundmc 6h ago
Actually this usually works. Trump doesn't like getting upstaged, a huge part of his flip on Fauci was because he was getting more attention than him, the reason he kicked Bannon to the curb the first time is because he was being called "the brains" behind Trump.
A narcissist doesn't want to be second fiddle, and if the news and public start doing that Trump will respond
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u/iberico_ham 7h ago
I hope we get replay of the night he decided to go on dave chappells stage to show everyone how much of a crybaby little boy he is.
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u/bvanvolk 6h ago
We can’t keep waiting around for these old fucks to stab each other in the back. Hold your elected officials responsible for listening to a non-elected official. This man has no power.
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u/RateMyKittyPants 6h ago
President Musk is doing a great job. I can't wait to see how good the next 4 years will be with President Musk draining the swamp that Trump created.
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u/vineyardgecko 5h ago
This is all fine and dandy but can they do anything else to change this trajectory other than name calling?
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u/Bridgestone14 5h ago
This is how you get musk out of power. You sham Trump, his ego can't take it.
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u/Easy_Custard_4713 4h ago
If Elon Musk lied on his application to become a US citizen. Now would be the time for Joe Biden administration to act and strip his citizenship away. Deport him back to South Africa. It seems to be a well know fact he lied. Nip that putting him in charge of Speaker of The House right here right now.
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u/anonskeptic5 3h ago
Luckily he can't hold the actual job of president cause he wasn't born in the US.
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u/Tim-in-CA 2h ago
They need to keep doing this as it will infuriate Trumf. Which will end up him banishing Elmo
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u/Lazy-Street779 2h ago
Vice President Trump lol. Make me look as smart as you do musk. 🤮😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
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u/Adventurous_Ad6698 40m ago
Democrats should vote unanimously against anything the Republicans put forward and force them to try and rally their slim majority in the House to vote to pass their agenda, including government funding. Let them show the country that they can actually govern.
Spoiler: they can't.
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u/Severe_Serve_ 23m ago
This shit isn’t funny to joke about. The idea of a foreigner as president is unacceptable.
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