After Musk helped tank a bipartisan bill to fund the government, Trump told conservative activists that he hadn't "ceded the presidency" to the tech billionaire.

“No, he’s not going to be president, that I can tell you,” Trump said. “And I’m safe. You know why he can’t be? He wasn’t born in this country.”

As you know a true leader has to keep saying they’re the real leader

  • katy ✨
    19·
    4 hours ago

    the fact that he addressed this shows the framing is getting to him so people need to keep it up

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Our media is so stupid. The world’s richest man just bought the whole federal government and the MSM reaction is “Ooh, maybe there’s gonna be drama!”

    Sane-washing was the wrong word for what the media does with Trump. It’s more like reality-TV-washing. It makes everything he does seem like a TV show that’s not real, and they never talk to or about the real people who are harmed by poorly run government. When was the last time the MSM talked to or about the struggles of a homeless person, someone living in the ghetto, or an immigrant trapped in a broken system? But they talk to and about Elon Musk every fucking day. They’ve spoken more to Elon Musk about immigration than to all (other) immigrants combined.

    The media isn’t right-wing or left-wing, it’s entertainment-wing. It’s just a reality TV soap opera focused on characters and personalities, not informing people. We should stop pretending it’s a source of information, the MSM is a source of entertainment.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Maybe we could amend the constitution to allow all citizens the same exact rights including being able to become president?

    That would be kind of cool.

  • Yodan@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    12 hours ago

    That’s the point right? Elon doesn’t need to be or want to be president, he just needs to call one up and say “bitch, change this dumbass law or I pull the plug on your media and financing” and then w/e president he just called does the thing.

    Why do the work and be public when you can brainfart an order at 7:30pm after dinner and 2 weeks later some gears roll in favor of your cocaine dream.

    • a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      “bitch, change this dumbass law or I pull the plug on your media and financing” and then w/e president he just called does the thing.

      So he calls Putin and says his PAC needs another round of funding?

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    31·
    13 hours ago

    Trump’s also disqualified from the office by the Constitution. The Supreme Court allowed it. They can allow Elon too.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
      6·
      13 hours ago

      Not exactly the same comparison. This would be far more blatant capture for the Supreme Court. The natural born citizen requirement is much more cut and dry. There were still some non-partisan legal people who genuinely thought Trump shouldn’t be disqualified (though many many disagreed with them)

      The Supreme Court does pass on insane legal ideas sometimes even if they allow plenty of horrible stuff too. Like in 2023 in Moore v. Harper, they ruled 6-3 against the Independent state legislature theory. Though on the flip side their presidential immunity ruling was indeed insane

      • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Not exactly the same, no; the point being that the court can pull the rug from under Trump who thinks the rules that don’t apply to him still somehow apply to Musk.

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
      7·
      14 hours ago

      Kind of, right? No doubt Elon is a career criminal, just not charged. Yet. The greedy folk occasionally take their own down, too. If Elon isn’t paranoid about that, he should be.

      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        18 hours ago

        I really want to see a press conference were a journalist asks if he has cleared that with Elon. Or just ask him what Elon’s opinion is on some random thing.

        • Snot FlickermanEnglish
          19·
          17 hours ago

          And you’ll never see it because journalists care way more about access to a politician than they do about truth. Doing that would just result in never being able to ask Trump a question again, and they know it, and act accordingly to their class.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    38·
    18 hours ago

    you’ve heard of RINO and DINO, now meet the diaper-wearing, spray painted PINO.