Summary
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell criticized Donald Trump’s Oval Office press conference with Elon Musk, calling it “the most powerless image of a president” ever.
Musk dominated the event—standing over Trump, speaking more words, and violating White House norms with his casual attire and child’s presence.
O’Donnell contrasted Musk’s influence with Trump’s past and present vice presidents, arguing that neither Mike Pence nor JD Vance would challenge Trump’s authority in such a manner.
Weird how one CEO gets Luigied and suddenly it’s bring your kid to work day for president Musk.
Lol I think I can get behind Luigi as a verb
I’m sure the right wingers complaining about Zelensky not wearing a suit are incandescent with rage about Musks lack of decorum.
You want to get rid of Musk, stuff like this is how you do it.
Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won’t be able to handle it. Look how fast he lost his shit during that debate with Harris when the subject of his crowd size came up.
I really think people who say this aren’t reading the room. It’s not the same old Trump. This is an old broken down mentally deficient Trump. This isn’t a case of an alliance between equals. This is a case of a grifter taking advantage of a guy too old to make decisions for himself. This is like a guy stealing the Social Security checks , altering the will , and selling assets for his own gain. I mean by all means keep saying it, cuz who knows and it is true, I just don’t think it’ll work. If anything it might be embolding Musk and legitimizing him.
No one knows what the deal is with that relationship. Maybe this is all part of their plan, maybe Elon has dirt on Trump, maybe he’s brainwashed and neuralink is more advanced than is publicly known. Maybe they’re both being blackmailed, and Joe Biden is the one really pulling the strings, and he’s trying to destroy the country as revenge for Harris?
There are a lot of equally likely possibilities here, so we shouldn’t try to jump to conclusions.
Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won’t be able to handle it.
That’s what I’ve thought until now, but after that display I don’t think he’ll do anything to Musk, who it seems really does have some power over him–the money of course, but maybe something else too–maybe some dirt, maybe something in conjunction with Putin. But to let that little brat say those things[*] to him and his only reaction was to be submissive and look away tells me Musk really is the one in control here. This is actually scary.
[*] “You’re not the president, you need to go away” and “I want you to shut your fucking mouth up”
This is 2016 Trump coming home to roost
Wait, what is this * part of your comment? I guess I missed some piece of these insane news cycles.
I’ve seen several clips from the press conference of “Little X” saying those things to trump, in an audible whisper. You should be able to find them with a search, or if not I can try to find them in my history. Trump sits hunched, looks briefly at the kid then looks away in a defeated manner (like a dog!) while musk rambles on. Anyone else, trump would have said to get the kid out of there, it’s bizarre.
https://www.snopes.com/articles/469232/musk-son-told-trump-shut-up/
Idc what snopes says about inconclusive; I saw and heard in the vids exactly what you did, lmao
Fucking love it when articles are specifically about a photo but they don’t post the fucking photo
it’s not about a photo
It literally is, i saw the photo in another article
I see two 4 year olds in this photo
Don’t forget Lil X!
Wormtongue has made himself very cosy in his new home it would seem.
I understood that reference… but Theodin was a good man
Truth. This is more like having two Wormtongues trying to corrupt each other.
Wormtongue and Denethor, maybe.
Except, instead of having a crippling love for his son, this Denethor has a daughter he wants to fuck.
I don’t like this version of Middle Earth.
Elon’s kid made a fucking bitch of trump on live television and we can never go back from that moment
I have never seen Trump act more servile towards anyone than when he pulled a chair out for Netanyahu.
Think of the relationship as a CEO and the chairman of the board, this is the way Trump sees it. The CEO is front and center but does the bidding of the chairman.
I don’t think this is accurate of course but I’m sure Trump sees it this way.
Pretty obvious that Jabba-the Orange is incompetent, confused and weak - a prime target for an even sleazier opportunist.
Or a puppeteer to pull his strings (or y’know… If he’s a ventriloquist’s dummy…)
i feel like “schmuck” needs to make a comeback in the vernacular.
Schmusk
Musk America Great Again
We were being shown who the real owners are (incel Dogebags like fElon) , and diaper donvict has to sit there and take it along with the rest of us.
Please share this image
Either Trump will boot Musk out because he can’t stand the perception that someone is giving him orders or this will be literally the only time that he has not done the stupidly petty thing, because the one thing you can rely on Donald Trump to do is the worst possible thing.
