“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.
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“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.
Elon Musk’s growing influence in Donald Trump’s orbit is reportedly irritating members of the former president’s inner circle.
Since his efforts helped secure Trump’s reelection, Musk has been highly visible at Mar-a-Lago, taking credit for Trump’s victory and acting as if he’s a “co-president.”
Musk has joined key diplomatic calls and even attempted to broker peace with Iran.
Despite his appointment to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, some close to Trump feel Musk’s overreach and need for attention may jeopardize his position, as Trump dislikes sharing the spotlight.
Trump has promised a cabinet position to every insufferable asshole in the country who insists that everyone accept their own fringe views and talks over anyone who disagrees, while also knowing nothing about what they're talking about. This is gonna be funny to watch, but painful to experience.
I had predicted this a while back, in that enabling Trump meant victory for the GOP, but the total erosion of Conservative values. This is clear in that any career politician will likely cede power to a bunch of nutjobs or meme lords with money.
They can either shut up and let Trump do his thing (lol), or they can dig their heels in and fight his decisions from within, grinding government to a halt (also lol). Either way, it's a win for most, because in the long term the right will bail after Trump and leave a party so weak that it probably won't be able to fight off the memory of Trump. He'll never endorse a candidate that's not himself, especially if the GOP blocks him. His rabid fan base will either die out, or go third-party because the GOP is "too woke" or something.
Trumps administration will likely start out with a lot of power hungry egomaniac freaks, and then with its very high turnover, trump loyalists will be filtered through, like they did in their first term.
Even ignoring the fact that he's a billionaire and that's what got him where he is, Musk's personality seems to be such that he is innately annoying as fuck. He'll always have yes-men around him because of his money, but I do wonder just how long everyone else in his current political circle are going to tolerate him. I'm hoping he'll be his own annoying downfall.
Is he (or ANYONE else for that matter) really under the impression that he had any effect on the election one way or the other? That's the biggest sign of arrogance right there.
It's going to be 4 years of basically watching all of these imbeciles gnaw at eachother while everyone else's quality of life just dies around them. Lovely.
Republicans: "Billionaires are just better than everyone else and we should all get out of their way and hand them the keys to everything for the betterment of all mankind."
Republicans After Being Forced to Spend One (1) Week Around Elon Musk: "No, shit, wait, these guys are fucking idiots!"
I forgot there were going to be potentially 3 CEOs in the Whitehouse. They're going to get under each other's skin like you wouldn't believe. We're still fucked but the infighting should be quite enjoyable.
I'm gonna call bullshit on this. For years now, I've been reading articles just like this one, and at the end of the day, nobody that could change anything did a fucking thing. It's just posturing and means nothing.
The more he acts up, the quicker trump will dump his ass. Fat Donnie is the dictator and wants all the attention, other people taking that away get dumped, bigly!