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This is inherently political, but I thought it was interesting at this point of the timeline of events unfolding, he could be the de facto President despite not being a natural citizen. Trump has shown evidence of deferring to political strongmen like Putin and Kim Jong Un. I just have a gut feeling that he'd defer to Musk, who has a strong personality of his own.
Idk, I feel like there is a rift between Elon and the rest and that his money isn't really useful to Trump now that the election is over.
Can we call him the usurper- in-chief yet ?
Elon from like 2013 when he was on big bang theory could probably have won. Hell Elon before twitter and the amber heard johnny Depp mess could probably have won. This guy legit was though of as irl Tony Stark until his inexorable demand for attention showed how shallow, weak, privileged and all round disappointing a human being he was.
He’s South African, he can’t be President lol.
He didn't found Tesla either but bought the title. So I wouldn't be surprised if Trump grants him natural born citizenship somehow. It's not like t by r supreme court will say no.
Make him take a drug test and publicly announce the results!
Isn't this platform in favor of drugs?
mostly, but I think people are of the opinion of doing them responsibly and maybe not doing 2 week ketamine benders on twitter.
Is your average American who voted this circus into office in favor of drugs?
No one will care
Donald Trump, president in name only? Musk and protect 2025 folks calling all the policy decisions? Figures. He was never very good at thinking.
Trump doesn't give a fuck. He just want to stay out of prison for all the terrible things he did.
Two gereatric Nepo babies running a train on our US.
Plebs are gonna get so fucked.
Musk is only 53, I don't think "geriatric" is a realistic description of him. Trump yes, but not Musk.
matter of perspective, for anyone under 30, these clowns are parasitic fossil
They're both adolescents in my mind and I'm younger than either by over a decade.
being born on the third base permits a person to act however they want, and the peasants will have to take the beatings until morale improves.
Third base? These guys were born being carried across home plate.
Sir this is a free market and capitalist society. Why do you hate success?
From an Atlantic article yesterday:
Bruno Maçães, a writer and consultant on geopolitics who has served as Portugal’s Europe minister, told me his phone had been ringing constantly since Trump’s election. European business leaders want to know what Trump will do with his second term, and how they can prepare. Maçães was not optimistic. He scoffed at Trump’s decision to create new, lofty-sounding administration posts for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and was baffled by the Silicon Valley types who believe the billionaires will transform the federal government, usher in a new era of unprecedented economic growth, and colonize Mars. “Maybe,” Maçães said. “I don’t know. But if you saw this in another country, you would see it as an acute sign of political decay when billionaires and oligarchy are taking over political policy.”
Actually it looks like he's fucking this opportunity up like he fucks up everything.
Put two people with egos the size of the Moon in a room together, yeah they're gonna crash into each other lol
If it didn't involve the complete destruction of my future it'd be comical
Rule 3, now fuck off
Oh yeh lol I didn't even notice what sub this was in until you mentioned it.
You misspelled Putin
Edith Wilson was de facto president after Woodrow Wilson's stroke in 1919, for the remainder of his term, allegedly.
It's crazy to think about those few years. Woodrow had a bad stroke, and Edith basically didn't allow anyone to disturb him. So they'd bring issues/bills/etc to her, and she would go in and "advise" the President, and then come out and relay his supposed response.
The closest we've ever come to actually having a woman President.
Isn't that kinda more like a coup? She subverted the natural elected representative of the people and seemingly just took over the position of president with no resistance.
de facto is pretty fuckin close
I think Dick Cheney beat him to it.
That's from 2014?
According to the caption (Getty Images, Max Whittaker), I guess so!