Summary
Donald Trump mocked Elon Musk during a University of Alabama commencement speech, claiming Musk and other tech leaders who once opposed him are now “kissing my a–.”
The jab came days after Musk reportedly exited the White House and refocused on Tesla.
Trump recalled Musk seeking help for “subsidized projects” and boasted about his past leverage over him.
The two, once rivals, had grown close but showed signs of tension. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said Musk remains involved, though no longer physically present.
“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless…
Seems like that should be a fine place to save some money then. Trump is basically admitting here that we are cutting school lunches, medicaid, and poverty programs while at the same time we are spending billions supporting failing businesses just so Musk can keep getting richer.
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Musk is equally petty, though. I could easily see them getting into an escalating feud that ends with Trump cutting off Musk out of spite.
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I had to check to see and that’s actually a Trump quote. You’re right about the admission, though it’s hard to even take note of it in the sea of madness we’re all capsized in. But at least love to see the inevitable end for anyone deluded enough to ally themselves with Trump.
Worth pointing out that quote is from 2022, before Elon spent a quarter billion dollars to get Trump elected. The new quote referenced in the article is actually tame as fuck and hardly worth writing about:
“If you look at some of these internet people, I know so many of them. Elon is so terrific, but I know now all of them, you know, they all hated me in my first term, and now they’re kissing my ass. You know… it’s true. All of them. It’s true.”
Sounds like a migrant I would love to hear about accidentally taken to el Salvador.
What, Adobe was complicit too? I thought they were still making bricks back then.
It’s this shit that gives me hope.
Not the protests.
Not the community building.
The fact that the “in-chargers” are so mindless that they don’t know not to eat each other.
They don’t know how else to be, their greed demands it.
The tariff hadn’t been seen by oligarchs. Although, Musk is the big winner here. He has stolen millions of government and confidential data to train AI and surveil people.
A fight between two of the biggest narcissistic men on the planet.
It’s going to take a looooot of popcorns.
I’m already out of popcorn!
Musk needs to pull the evidence for Trump now. Put it out there for all to see.
Will he tho? Doubtful or Musk loses everything the government gives him.
Will it matter, even if he does? Nothing has been done to actually enact consequences on this buffoon.
I feel like them turning on each other was inevitable. It was just a matter of when. Still the cracks started forming earlier than I expected, I wonder if trump will eventually take away a lot of teslas subsidies since it seems like the maga crowd also hates him
Really? Because I thought they would fall apart way faster than they did, I’m honestly amazed they lasted past the inauguration
Yeah fascism consumes until there is nothing left but eventual self-consumption. Here’s to hoping we stop lining elon’s pockets with taxpayer money through tesla
I wish I could remember what we bet on how long their bromance would last.
Two entities like these simply cannot coexist.
2 malignant narcissist cannot exist in close proximity
It does not matter to Musk. He got all the personal and sensitive information he needs to train AI for his new company.
I feel like Musk wants the world to end and be Mr House from Fallout. If that happens, I wish I could be Ghoul and take revenge on him.
Ah, so Trump and Musk have fallen out? Musk remains the richest man in the world. If he turns against Trump, it would be interesting what would happen.
Probably the same symbolic back and forth “will he won’t he” that Bezos and Trump play.
We all knew eventually the oligarchs would start fighting each other over scraps.
What we forget is we and everything we still have are the scraps.
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