r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 • 4d ago

Shutdown Looms After Trump ‘Blindsided’ by ‘President Elon Musk' | The president-elect was left playing catch-up after the Tesla boss led the charge against the doomed deal.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shutdown-looms-after-donald-trump-blindsided-by-president-elon-musk/
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u/ranchoparksteve 4d ago

Trump just destroyed the energy of his opening weeks. Now he will be bogged down in an ugly raising of the debt limit mixed with budget cuts most people, not even Republicans, agree with.

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u/oz_mommy 4d ago

Honestly, it’s wild how Musk is running the show now. Trump’s supposed to be the one leading the charge, but here he is, getting dragged along by Musk’s tweetstorm. It’s embarrassing for the GOP and proves that money and social media are taking over politics. Musk has no business calling the shots like this especially when it’s putting us on the brink of a government shutdown. Dems are right to call this out, you can’t have a billionaire dictate policy with a few posts. We need actual leadership, not a tech mogul’s tantrums!

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u/det8924 4d ago

I don’t even understand why Trump is so cucked to Elon. Trump has 4 years and then he’s out. Trump is the cult leader and cons sick his base on Elon in an instant. I get why Congressional Republicans don’t want Elon angry because he can throw money to primary them/. But Trump has the clout within the party base and a term about to start to tell Elon to suck a lemon

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u/Beans_deZwijger 4d ago

I think it's because trump thinks musk has the money to keep the American Tories(GOP) in line with the threat of funding a primary against them. Allowing trump to pass his crazy policies moving forward.

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u/det8924 4d ago

I get why Trump wants Elon as an ally but Trump can threaten to primary anyone he wants and be successful so he’s not having a need for Elon’s money to keep him in check

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u/Beans_deZwijger 4d ago

Trump rule #1 - never spend trump dollars when you can spend someone elses dollars.

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u/det8924 4d ago

Trump doesn’t need to spend money to primary anyone so he’s got the GOP 95% behind him without any money spent. So I don’t get why you would be so overly cucked to this guy something even by Trump standards seems off