Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill.

“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.

“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he added.

Trump also said he has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk after a feud between the two men erupted into public view earlier this week.

  • @shiroininja@lemmy.world
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    295 days ago

    Do you have no principles? Like look what Musk has done. And you want democratic candidates in debt and aligned with him? He’s just going to continue what he started, he’s not going to do an about face.

    We should be incriminating millionaires putting money into campaigns, not accepting them

    • Bizzle
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      155 days ago

      Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

      • Cruxifux
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        165 days ago

        The democrats are absolutely not good enough. Elon Musk is absolutely NOT GOOD ENOUGH. What an insane thing to say about a Nazi. THIS is why your country is where it is right now, not because of the people who refuse to side with nazis. It’s because of the enablers like you.

        • Bizzle
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          95 days ago

          It’s because of your purity tests that we got Trump in the first place.

          • @Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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            165 days ago

            Voting for the lesser of two evils eventually gets you the greater evil due to apathy. Your vote feels lesser when your options are always shit vs shittier. We literally saw that happen yet democrats learned nothing. Especially when they constantly go after the shittier voting demographic

            • Bizzle
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              105 days ago

              Listen I’m not saying it shouldn’t be better. But I’d rather vote for a Musk funded Democrat than a Trumper. I would love to live in a reality where Citizens United never happened and money is banned from politics, but the way it stands I would vote for a literal steaming pile of horse shit if it was running against Trump and I’m not sorry about that.

          • Cruxifux
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            125 days ago

            No, you guys got Trump by American liberals not doing anything of value to steer their country away from fascism for decades and then blaming literally everybody but themselves. Your do nothingness and trying to pretend it’s activism is just so tiring. Every time your democrats were in power you increased defence spending, increased US caused civilian deaths around the world, increased the US’s stranglehold on world politics, and then you try to shame people in countries that are affected by this for not liking you. It’s not a purity test from where the rest of the world stands, it’s just the fucking reality.

    • Cruxifux
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      135 days ago

      Liberals will never admit that their lack of principals is a large part of why the USA is what it is right now.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        85 days ago

        Taking Musk’s money and influence to make the world a better place isn’t a problem.

        Letting him pick a direction for the party or make policies would be my red line.

        • @shiroininja@lemmy.world
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          125 days ago

          People don’t give money without expecting something in return. And these spineless democrats will 100% let him run circles around them if he promised to keep them in office.

        • Cruxifux
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          65 days ago

          Those who side with nazis are no better than the nazis themselves.

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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            25 days ago

            There’s so much wrong with your little thought terminating sentence there.

            Taking Musk’s money to get power isn’t siding with Nazis.

            • Cruxifux
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              65 days ago

              The level of naivety you have to have to think people give campaign donations while expecting absolutely nothing in return is just crazy man. I don’t even know where this logic line could even be coming from.

              • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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                15 days ago

                Start a party where you only accept donations from ideologically pure sources and see how far it gets you.

                • Cruxifux
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                  55 days ago

                  You’re justifying taking donations from nazis right now, just so we’re clear. What would it take for you to actually draw a line?

                  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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                    35 days ago

                    Taking Musk’s money and influence to make the world a better place isn’t a problem.

                    Letting him pick a direction for the party or make policies would be my red line.

                    Just like I said a couple comments ago.

    • @evenglow@lemmy.world
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      55 days ago

      My principles don’t matter. Your principles don’t matter. The principles of every single voter doesn’t matter. What does matter is the principles of the President of the United States of America.

      The functioning of the US government isn’t just for you. Or your principles. Your principles are never on the ballot. Don’t be selfish.

      • @shiroininja@lemmy.world
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        75 days ago

        This is brain dead. We live in a representative democracy. They’re supposed to be reflections of us. Public servants that carry out our will and nothing more.

        • Cruxifux
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          65 days ago

          If you think the US is any kind of meaningful definition of representative democracy then you don’t know what you’re talking about and shouldn’t be taken seriously when talking about these things.

          • @shiroininja@lemmy.world
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            25 days ago

            Then enlighten me, what is it? We elect people to represent us, to vote in our favor. Not to rule over us with autonomy. Like I said, they are public servants, nothing more than DMV workers but with more responsibility.

            • Cruxifux
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              55 days ago

              It’s a fascist oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.

              • @shiroininja@lemmy.world
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                35 days ago

                I mean currently, yes, that’s hard to argue with, but it wasn’t founded or made to be that way.

                I guess I was focused on what America is supposed to be as a concept

                • Cruxifux
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                  35 days ago

                  Yeah, I get that. But what it’s supposed to be and what it is in reality are massively different.