Summary
In a Fox News interview, Elon Musk and Sean Hannity repeatedly talked over Donald Trump, sidelining him in a discussion about government efficiency.
Musk dominated the conversation, warning of national bankruptcy and presenting himself as a savior.
Hannity largely directed questions to Musk, while Trump struggled to interject.
The awkward exchange fueled speculation about Musk’s influence, with some questioning who is really in charge.
Just goes to show, Trump is not the cause of the disease, he’s a symptom. Trump could be Luigied tomorrow and the problems with the Republican party wouldn’t disappear. They are completely owned by billionaires.
The billionaires own establishment Democrats as well. See Bernie 2016. MSNBC treated Bernie worse than Trump 2024.
Yeah solving this problem is going to take somewhere between a hundred and a thousand Luigis…
Be the Luigi you want to see in the world
Trump is still important. He’s the person at the center of the cult they’ve built their power on.
Trump is waxing and waning. The man is 80 and looking quite unhealthy. When geriatrics start to wax and wane there are recognizable patterns but it can vary a bit by personality. Biden and Trump are the same in that respect.
What waxing and waning means is you can have a perfectly normal exchange with Biden on day 1 and on day 2 get the debate performance and on day 3 get perfectly normal again. Inertia and habit carries people a lot further and longer than you think, depending on what they spent most of their lives doing. It’s not uncommon to have career domination in this inertia.
I suspect Trump will look much more odd and awkward than Biden going forward.
High odds it’s one reason Elon is with him and the interview isn’t solo, so Elon can be a handler of sorts and talk over him rather than having Trumps Biden moments on full, singular focus. One of the other reasons, ofc, is to maintain this idea that they are the same person in power, to keep that tight association going.
My personal theory with zero hard evidence to back it is that Trump does his disengagement thing when his internal pacemaker with defibrillator zaps him. And that he’d be dead already without it.
I like that defibrillator theory, though usually I’ve seen patients react with pain when it goes off. Maybe the disengagement is him going into v-tach and his blood pressure tanking before it pops him.
As for Musk covering for the dementia, I doubt it. If you look at Trump’s transcripts over the years, he’s had a propensity for dementia soup when he speaks for a while now, but his supporters just dismiss it, hear what they want, and say it’s fake news. I don’t see why they’d suddenly be worried about it now. No, this is Musk just plain old taking the driver’s seat.
People with dementia have increasing difficulty following conversations, especially with multiple people, as the dementia gets worse.
It could be that Trump just can’t follow the conversation well. They’re not covering so much as Trump can’t handle so many people talking.
This fits that YMCA dance party he had in lieu of a town hall.
“National bankruptcy”. We literally print the fucking money ex nihilo.
Careful, using fancy Latin words might get you labeled as one of those “intellectuals,” or an “illegal” from Latin America.
“Did you see that high-scoring basketball game last night? The referee gave out so many points, he had to declare bankruptcy!”
Man, I never knew that the price to make Trump your bitch was so low.
Like the public could just GoFundMe $400M and have him as a public servant once again.
Except he has this thing where he acts like the unseen person in high school who was just noticed by the popular crowd when people he perceived as important or popular notice him: Elon, Saudi Arabian princes, Putin, etc
We The People hold no such sway.
I don’t think it’s just the money. He is deeply insecure, and I think that, in many ways, he actually craves the approval of what he sees as “the popular kids” (in his mind, the wealthiest man in the world is the #1 popular kid. Like the homecoming king in an 80s movie)
No, unless an individual controls the money, it would just be added to Trump’s pile and nobody else would get anything out of it.
When the fallout happens between Trump and Musk, Trump may find it difficult to get rid of him since he has handed so much power to Musk (via write access to government databases).
There will come a point where he literally won’t be able to get rid of him once control of the law enforcement arm goes to Musk.
If we’re lucky they’ll destroy each other entirely.
I promise you, they would take America with them. Willingly, out of spite, if nothing else.
We’re already going down. Better that they do with the rest of us.
I’m willing to let them take exactly half of America down with them.
I don’t think this is true. I think there are multiple avenues for which Musk could be prosecuted if Trump wants him gone. All he has to do is say the word and Musk will be in jail on the same day.
So when Harris has Walz do a sit down interview with her, people lost their mind - but this is okay?
Transcribed as…
Leader of the free world: -“Right” -“Europe” -“Europe” -“There could be nothing bigger. There’s nothing —” -“That’s peanuts compared to what we’re talking about,” -“Including his ships. Including his ships going up.” -“Sean, you’re a… ”
Hannity: *dismissively - “This is important,” *continues to talk to Musk.
*Trump utterly humiliated rambles under his breath.
Who is the alpha here? What a joke not to mention Elon’s talking points are 100% contradictory.
Hannity knows who his boss is now.
So…
Time to musk impregnating ivanka or needing to buy her a horse?
Pretty sure she’s already cucked him more than once, and at least once with him in the room. Hell, he probably serves her up like an hors-d’oeuvre and his daughter like dessert.
King Trump, indeed.
He’s gotta keep telling himself he’s in charge so he feels good
Musk is president why would Hannity bother with that other guy
These fucks are so exhausting.
