Since when do Presidents use their position to punish people. I am no fan of Musk but this is
abusing the office, he took an oath to protect and defend.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the "easiest way" for the government to save money would be to "terminate" contracts and subsidies going to billionaire Elon Musk, amid an escalating war of words between the commander-in-chief and the world's wealthiest man.
"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"Elon was 'wearing thin,' I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!" the president wrote in another post.
Replies to: Since when do Presidents use their position to punish people. I am no fan of Musk but this is
The dark side of Trump - his ego. Elon was naive to think it would go different for him.
This isn't about the EV mandate. Elon should have ridden off into the sunset, but he made the mistake of criticizing the Great Big Beautiful Bill Act.
None of us were there. I believe it was about DJT's NASA pick & the electriic car subsidy.
Musk wanted his D pal as the NASA head which wasn't going to happen and he also wanted subsidies for his electric cars which wasn't going to happen.Just my opinion. One guy is the president and one guy is an uneleccted zillionaire. Elon can have his little tantrum but DJT will still be president. DJT's "ego" is for the betterment of the nation. In other words, for us. He was the one elected with over 75 million votes. That's a mandate.
Yes,that's a mandate. And it's ok to cut Elon funding. But Trump raging on Twitter? Not necessary.
As I said, Elon was naive. He's also not without blame here.
Anyway, unfortunate to see it come to this. Both have undone progress with this. On the + side, Elon may skuttle the Great Big Beautiful Spend Like a Drunken Sailor Bill Act.
$1000 per newborn baby in an account. Uh, yeah.
They are both childlike loonies. Govt by adolescent crazies. Own it MAGA. What YOU imposed on the
nation.
Gas is cheaper, eggs are cheaper, and portfolio is up. #Winning.
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That’s what orange man said. It is flatly untrue. He’s a liar. What does that make you?
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Gas is only cheaper cause of the slowdown world wide due to tariff uncertainty. Eggs are still way
to expensive, and the debt is gonna kill your portfolio. Other than that winning.
By the way your dear leader is pushing a bill to add 2.4 trillion to the deficit. More winning!
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You should be so proud of the freak show you helped elect.
Elect a clown, get a circus.
Trump be Trumpin'. Elon seems unhinged. Woman scorned, as they say.
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Elect a puppet, get a fist.
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Maybe this is all theater, like pro wrestling?
To get back into favor with his main client base - liberals - Musk and Trump agreed to start a "feud."
This isn't implausible.
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Mommy and Daddy are fighting again :(
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Damn that’s brilliant. Such insight.
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Yeah, I’m sure that’s true
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Here’s my take…in order to deal with Trump’s idiocy…
Musk took extra doses of mushrooms, ecstasy, and special K. Now that he sobered up, he sees the many errors of his ways.
Ah, the Checkers theory.
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You have to remember, the Biden admin pushed Elon to the right.
Trump just happened to be running and Elon hooked on with him. If Biden and his band of idiots didn’t start censoring people, Elon wouldn’t have jumped ship.
Not sure what your talking about…
but if it has anything to do with censoring social media, that was thrown out by the courts.
Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna151356
I’m guessing you did not read the article.
“The court found on a 6-3 vote that plaintiffs did not have standing to sue, in part because they had failed to adequately allege that the content moderation at issue was as a result of government actions.”
Apparently, you have little to no reading comprehension…
SCOTUS ruling…
“The court found on a 6-3 vote that plaintiffs did not have standing to sue, in part because they had failed to adequately allege that the content moderation at issue was as a result of government action.”
In other words, the Biden admin didn’t coerce or censor social media platforms.
I do have reading comprehension.
Please educate yourself on what it means to have no standing.
The Biden admin was the defendant…
scotus ruled in favor of the Biden administration. Clear enough for you now?
That is not what happened.
The case was not decided, it was thrown out because the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue.
Yes. The plaintiff couldn’t support its claim to sue…
SCOTUS threw out the claim. Biden administration won.
He bought X because of what the Biden admin did.
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Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
Not really. Elon bought Twitter…
for four reasons…
-free speech- he felt that Twitter censored conservative voices…not Biden
-fake accounts- Elon is not a fan of bot accounts.
-promote a free and open forum- Elon felt that everyone, no matter their views, deserved a platform. This is funny, because Elon now censors people.
-Help humanity- not sure how Twitter helps humanity, but this was a reason.
Who pressured the Twitter people to silence conservative voices? Also, who pressured the
Twitter people to silence COVID talk that wasn’t in line with Fauci?
Yep, I’m sure Biden was on the line with the former Twitter CEO…
regarding silencing conservatives. Perfectly rationale theory.
The COVID pandemic was complicated. First you have Trump telling people to inhale cleaning products, et al…Fauci, as unpopular he was to the right, was doing his best. I’m sure he would have done somethings differently now that we have more data.
Like everything else that happened the last 4 years, Biden had no clue. It was the unelected
Assholes who were running the country. I will never blame the empty suit for what happened. He had no clue. Just ask Jake Tapper.
That’s open for debate and if you’re good with the embarrassment that’s posing as president…
today…that’s OK, too.
This guy has me on ignore, but pls DFH school yo boy here!
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I agree on this. I like Musk - he has to be sincere at cutting the deficit at this point.
I think there is an argument against his comments, but I like him.
Regardless of “liking” him or disliking him, his contracts should be based on merit and he has the right to speak his mind. Afterall, this isn’t the COVID Biden/Fauci era anymore - hopefully, we have moved passed those dark practices.
2 impeachments, raid on his home, mug shots, assasination attempts, fake pee pee tapes,
Steele dossier, withheld Hunter laptop, lawfare up the ying yang, activist judges, fake media, Jan 6 committee. Nothing stuck but the D left tried like hell. Then you want to talk abouut an administration who used their position to punish people? Always accuse the other side what you yourself are doing. Words the D marxist left live by.
Contempt of Congress and inciting an insurrection usually a big cause of concern
and gets presidents impeached.
Clinton was impeached for a blowjob. Go figure, some bj gets you impeached but insurrections I guess that’s just a tourist excursion.
Was he or anyone charged or convicted of insurrection?
"Peacefully and patriotically" is quite the incitement. The Democratic BLM antifa riots, now that was an incitement.
^^^ this is very historically accurate. ^^^
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Remember when Obama and Biden had feuds threatening their cabinet members. Me either!
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My instinct is that this is Kubuki.
Trump is the heel.
Of course it’s Kubuki, master Checkers. It couldn’t be a dysfunctioning and inept POTUS and
government.
Adolescents at play. Plenty of posters here raved over the Trump/Musk oligarchy.
Many of us saw this coming from Day 1.
A poor reflection on the United States, as has been every day since January 20th. America gets the Romper Room it deserves.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/05/us/trump-elon-musk
Ha! It was never an oligarchy, yet you won't take responsibility for being wrong about that
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Let’s get the impeachment started. The first 2 worked so well, let’s get another one in.
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Who’s asking for that? Just live up to the oarh he took.
This isn’t his own business, it is ours.
Give it time. It always seems to be the answer with the idiots on the left.
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