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.
hahaha! Grab him by the ego!
when you’re rich they let you
There is something truly next level about bragging to rich people about how much you enjoy something simple.
This comes to mind
That’s hilarious, thank you for the laugh
Haha. Was he trying to fuck with Larry?
Guaranteed that he has no idea the Times person of the year doesn’t mean the greatest and bestest person of the year. Just the world’s biggest shit disturber of the year, for good or ill.
Donald′s classic ″You are so lame and unpopular, nobody knows who you are″ rebuttal. Such a quick witted mind he has.
FREE SPEECH! FREE SPEECH! unless it’s something I don’t like
The irony of these first amendment people targetting the press is that the text of the 1A specifically mentions freedom of the press…
People like to quote the 1A as all about being MY SPEECH
Journalist: “We have found reason to believe there may be a conflict of interest in the way SpaceX receives government funding!”
Official: “Nonsense! He is a brilliant entrepreneur, blessed by the free market!”
Journalist: “But if he receives government grants and also holds influence over government decisions, shouldn’t we at least investigate?”
Official: “Investigate? Are you mad? That’s not how modern governance works!”
Journalist: “How does it work?”
Official: “Well, if he weighs the same as a rocket… he’s a genius!”
Crowd: “A genius!! Burn the critics!!”
Journalist: “But that doesn’t make any sense!”
Official: “Look, strange billionaires distributing subsidies is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of regulatory oversight, not from handing out massive contracts to one’s own companies!”
Journalist: “So you’ll investigate?”
Official: “What? No! Now go away, or I shall dismiss you a second time!”
I wish the independent hadn’t used such a high def photo of him-- you can really see all the nooks and crannies of his shit ass bronzer shotgun applicator. He looks so fucking old. I doubt he’s making it through the next 4 years alive.
You’d think that, but these evil assholes seem to live forever.
Yep. Kissinger was alive damn near a hundred years.
Kissinger also wasn’t a fat, lazy, demented old crybaby. he was as cold as he was evil. and was in relatively good shape for much of his life, certainly compared to big beefy Donnie boy.
That’s the truth.
LOL…this is glorious! Elon’s firing to commence in T minus 10…9…8…
Elon is already gearing up to fire Trump? Damn, that was quick.
One can hope, but doubtful
The exact same scenario played out with Steve Bannon, and Trump fired him. I’m don’t see Elon faring much better.
Elon is filthy rich though. There is a difference.
He’s rich so far, but he really seems to be alienating his consumer customer base. If he keeps this up, his car company could crash as fast as it grew, and maybe his other customers will start reacting
He’s worth over $400 billion. He could literally set warehouses full of cash on fire and not notice.
He owns stock currently worth a ridiculous amount. It’s worth so much that tanking Twitter was no big deal, and of course buying a government position is cheap.
But that stock is tied to the value off a small number of companies, especially Tesla. If people stopped buying their products because of that ceo, that’s going to take a couple hundred billion off the top. Yes, that does seem to be happening in Europe. Meanwhile Chinese companies are eating their lunch in most of the world and the us is apparently going back to some smog filled dark medieval time
It’s unfortunate that their cars and other products are still compelling, still have features unmatched by any competitors
And of course there’s spacex, and other companies, not yet impacted.
I am just SO glad that I never bought one of his cars.
Kimbal Musk’s sale of approximately $27 million in company shares also comes as Tesla is set to have its worst week since the U.S. presidential election, in part due to what Bloomberg classed as “shockingly bad” sales reports from Europe — which could indicate Musk’s political activities in the U.S. are hurting the EV’s profitability, according to a Friday report. Tesla sales in Germany plummeted to their lowest figure in four years last month, while sales in France and the United Kingdom also declined.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-cfo-board-members-offload-142507093.html
I totally agree with your take other than that their cars are anything special at this point - what features are unmatched by competitors? Yes they were innovative at the time but they currently don’t lead in efficiency, range, charging, ride quality, interior quality, and FSD was/is an absolute grift.
Elon is going to demote Trump and make him his special little Gaza emissary
Are we taking bets on how many scaramuccis he’s got left?
It’s not his Resolute Desk
Any good politician would at least think twice about this before just attacking them back like a little child. If I were president and this would happen, I would work on fixing my image instead of ruining it even more.
The last 10 years have been one of bullying and turning people into hateful assholes.
Oh now that’s funny.
TBF Elon actually uncoverd a lot of corruption. Just not the way Trump thinks
LOL, donvict is just such a predictable little butthurt baby.
Psychological warfare. Trump’s an easy mark. We need more of it…
If all our media outlets would treat him with that kind of respect we might have a better shot at kicking his sorry ass out
Hey, instead of asking him about a magazine cover - then acting like it’s some huge win when he pretends to think the magazine was out of business, and goes on to complete Musk…
…maybe just maybe, you could ask him how Musk’s department might go about investigating SpaceX grants and the government funding it get?
You could even use bog adult journalism terms like “Conflict of Interest”.
