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How Elon really got into politics (lemm.ee)

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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-age-of-donald-trump-jr.html

Before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump that precipitated Elon Musk’s MAGA conversion in the summer of 2024, there was at least one prominent member of Trumpworld who had been courting Musk in public for years. In May 2020, Musk posted, “Take the red pill,” with a rose emoji, to his 34 million followers on what was then known as Twitter. In a quote tweet, Donald Trump Jr. responded, “Welcome.”

Six days after the January 6 insurrection, Don Jr. posted a video to his Facebook page to ask, “Why doesn’t Elon Musk create a social-media platform?” Twitter had just permanently suspended his father for using the service to incite violence, and Junior was mad. “Elon, why don’t you do that?” he demanded. “Get out there and come up with a concept … I think you are literally the guy to save free speech in America.” A year later, after Musk’s successful takeover of Twitter, Don Jr. posted a screenshot of a Musk post that read, “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.” Junior captioned it: “This times 1000.”

He was the first major political figure to suggest that Musk take on government inefficiency, the crusade that has since turned Washington upside down. The day after Musk hosted a forum with Trump on Twitter, now rebranded as X, Junior posted, “Who else loves the idea of Elon Musk heading up a government efficiency committee to eliminate the likely trillions of dollars of waste we have in our bloated bureaucracy? I can’t imagine a better person for the task.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

and, kids... this is what happens with you mix and match your stash with your friends.