Just months ago, Trump was crowing about being named the magazine’s 2024 Person of the Year

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.

  • Emberleaf@lemmy.ml
    545·
    4 days ago

    LOL…this is glorious! Elon’s firing to commence in T minus 10…9…8…

      • Emberleaf@lemmy.ml
        162·
        4 days ago

        The exact same scenario played out with Steve Bannon, and Trump fired him. I’m don’t see Elon faring much better.

          • AA5B@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 days ago

            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

            • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              4 days ago

              He’s worth over $400 billion. He could literally set warehouses full of cash on fire and not notice.

              • AA5B@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 days ago

                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.

                • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  4 days ago

                  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

                  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/tesla-shares-set-for-worst-week-since-election-as-sales-plunge?sref=Hhue1scO

                • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  4 days ago

                  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.

                  • AA5B@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    4 days ago

                    I do think they still have leads or near the top in most of those. For example, Lucid has outstanding technology and top efficiency but only sell a small number of expensive cars. There is no intermediate priced models similar to Model Y.

                    Tesla Supercharger network is a game changer, but that benefit will start to erode as other manufacturers come on board over the next couple years

                    Most EV still need to go through dealers, and it’s hard to think of any reason that’s a positive. Most EVs still have the traditional pricing model of “buyer beware”, hidden fees, surcharges, incentives. Yes, it’s an advantage to buy direct from the manufacturer and pay exactly the listed price: no more, no less

                    While other companies are finally starting to dabble with software updates, I don’t think any other company has it nailed like Tesla.

                    Then there’s gadgets, and the app. Sorry but I’m a gadget guy. The sheer number of options from the app, things I can control, are unmatched. Things I can see and control through Home Assistsnt or display on my home dashboard are unmatched. I don’t know if any other car can match sentry mode, much less the dozens of fun gadgets like theater mode, goods mode, etc

                    I recently found out there are some EVs that don’t even have a heat pump yet. What the heck, that makes a huge difference in winter driving range