Elon Musk reportedly set to have office space in the White House complex
Elon Musk reportedly set to have office space in the White House complex
As if the billionaire megadonor doesn’t already have enough access to Donald Trump, Musk is reportedly poised to receive office space near the West Wing.
Summary
Elon Musk, a Republican megadonor and close Trump ally, is reportedly set to have office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the West Wing.
Musk is expected to head the "Department of Government Efficiency," aiming to reduce federal spending under Trump.
Critics question Musk's influence, noting his frequent presence at key Trump meetings and events.
This move, if confirmed, would grant Musk continued access to Trump post-inauguration, sparking debate about the billionaire’s role in the administration despite holding no official government position.
Oligarchy.
We're no better than Russia.
By design.
We lost the cold war folks.
The cold war was against the Soviets. We're losing to fascists.
Which is much worse (imo)
And willingly. I might be unfairly judging because I'm a non-American that has been watching this unfold from the outside. But this has been no master plan. There's been no deception or trickery. These people have repeatedly and loudly told us all what they're about. But Donald Trump could say "Hannibal Lector is a fine man" after half an hour of shuffling around onstage to golden oldies and his supporters were like "my hero! 😍"
Long before they were trying to 'protect the kids' from trans people, they were trying to 'protect the kids' from metal and punk and rap and calling everything satanic. But all along, we all knew that they were raging hypocrites that campaign for things like child marriage while claiming to actually give a shit about children.
The way I see it, not a single person over say 25 has the excuse of not knowing or not remembering. They don't get to use the "we were tricked" line later on. In fact, no one with the ability to read does. Southern Republican states have a global reputation for being full of kiddie fiddling preachers and politicians, for being run like 3rd world countries and for being incestuous motherfuckers. This is known. And this is why I'm going to press X to doubt wherever anyone tries to tell me that they thought the price of eggs would improve.
The Soviets lost to fascists first. Now we're falling to the Soviet fascists.
We’re no better than Russia.
Gulag for you, comrade.
Maybe the US needs more political prisoners so we can be up to par from the minority parties. The hatred is almost there amongst the loyalists to the billionaire elite. Just check out a fox news comments section, they'd love to shoot some democrats up. They don't even consider them human anymore.
I can't believe how mass media is turning people into monsters who cheer for the death of hard working working class families while the billionaires get bigger and bigger handouts from tax dollars.
In related news JD Vance reported that he has opted for a room at the local Motel 6 for his accomodations...
since when does the dollar store motel chain have couches in their rooms?
Couches, chairs...he's got eclectic tastes. Some people are saying.
Please don’t sleep on JD Vance. While Trump is selling out the constitution, he is the tip of the want-to-be authoritarian spear: Is There Something More Radical than MAGA? JD Vance Is Dreaming It.
Not even the bed bugs want to be associated with him
How to buy a government.
That door has been open a while, he's just the biggest one and in the latest tradition the quiet part is being said out loud now. More validation of the real message of "Soylent Green", where a society degrades to the point where even the most outrageous actions get at best a shrug from the apathetic public.
Waitaminute... Isn't he going into the tesla office every day? I thought employees couldn't be productive without being in the office!
Come on, there's the press releases and public relations and then there's reality.
The reality is that businesses want employees to leave so they can avoid paying severance and because the banks will give them preferential rates for utilizing office space, keeping commercial properties artificially inflated despite major changes in the perception and reality about how work can be performed.
It's easy to downsize at very large companies, it just piles on more work for those that remain. During booming times like most tech companies had in the pandemic they hired like gangbusters at the behest of middle management, now it's austerity time so they can focus on massive profits while corporate taxes are at an excessive temporary low.
woosh
I would hope so. He's the president.
Let me know when they name an aircraft carrier after him.
He'll probably rename Airforce One to Xbox420lol69
Not that I would ever condone or encourage such abhorrent and inexcusable behaviour, but it would seem like if anyone in US politics is begging for a bullet, it's Musk. Even more so than Trump or his cabinet of monstrosities. Musk is uniquely poised to catch a round in the dome. And it will probably be a MAGA lunatic that does it.
Musk is a bigger problem for the world as a whole than Trump is. So yeah, I still don't get why it hasn't happened yet.
Oh man he's gonna give so many more blowjobs than Melania
69 is one of favorite numbers. The other is 420, He has priced cars at $69,420 in the past.
Of course the real President should have offices in the White House!
Is it just me or is Elon's appearance taking on more and more the embodiment of a fart in human form?
I didn't know how to word it, but this feels about right
Will the space be oval?
Damn you for beating me to this.
What shape is that office?
Oval.
Jesus fucking Christ
Bro, what the actual fuck?
This twerp must have some absolutely devastating dirt on Trumpy boy. I'm coming to the conclusion that there's no other explanation. It can't possibly just be money; Trump has tons of other rich donors. What I'm struggling to predict, though, is just what he could possibly have to hold over Trump's head that's worse than selling classified documents, misusing campaign funds, trying to incite an insurrection, or failing to pay his hookers.
It's not like this. This is conspiratorial thinking.
These people are just .. weirdos. This is how weirdos are friends: transactionally, with little common ground. Trump feels like he has something to offer a friend that friend, even though he's richer, can't.
It's all fucking base and stupid and nowhere near the ideals we are supposed to aspire to as a nation.
Musk is giving him far more money than other donors.
They are both beholden to Putin, very likely afraid for their lives and rightfully so. Putin is a billionaire but he also has a state apparatus with global reach behind him that he is intimately familiar with. He has demonstrated repeatedly over the years that he is willing and able to use that apparatus to... make people fall out of windows, etc. And all of this doesn't even consider the possibility of kompromat - these are all deeply bad people.
I believe Putin is the real mastermind behind everything that is going on and also that he has realized that Trump is of limited value to him in the White House. Trump's cult gets him in, but he had four years already and really didn't make a lot of inroads (not to mention his visibly declining health).
So in my opinion, this is Putin shuttling in someone who can be more useful to him. The canary in the coal mine for whether or not this is true will be to see if the infighting everyone is breathlessly predicting ever materializes. I predict it will not. Elon Musk will not end up like Anthony Scaramucci.
Musk...is a complete moron.
No
Ya, the dirt is he won trump an election.
6 months tops before they start clashing very publicly
That's very generous. I give it 2 months.
Would be hilarious if Elon got fired, and then punished with a series of new laws.
I can dream 🥲
Next door to the Russian and Chinese oligarch offices.
The most likely, so he could give them a blowjob from time to time.
Dystopian implications aside, I wanna see how long it takes for everyone to be absolutely sick of him. He's already insufferable when he's not even in the room.
It's not like you couldn't say the same thing about Donald Trump. Yet here we are.
I'm talking more about the other people in the Whitehouse. I've had my fair share of obnoxious and insufferable coworkers that I've been forced to interact with on a daily basis.
Every president in the White House needs a dog eh?
Yup, that’s why Trump is there.
I would say they should block the gaming ports on the network, but Musk doesn't really play games anyway.
Now we can get Tesla Whitehouse recall announcements.
This is a good thing. Familiarity breeds contempt. A middle school spat between these two prissy boys is imminent.
I cannot wait until the Orange Idiot gets sick of him and Musk suddenly becomes a Democrat.
The upcoming fight will be a bit more final. Maybe. Musk must have bought the Russian Kompromat on Trump, but at some point Trump won't care, and Elon will likely end up in Gitmo.
Does it mean Mar-a-Lago is the new WH or the other way?
The article and the NYT one which it cites fail to mention if there's any historical precedent for this kind of arrangement. Is there?
No idea for the US but a few years ago South Korea dealt with a similar situation. It was revealed that the president had a friend who was acting as an unpaid, unelected advisor making decisions for the president, seeing classified information, and helping set national policy. They had million person protests in the middle of Seoul that culminated in the impeachment of their president and her removal from office. The advisor was also arrested and sentenced to 20 years or something.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Korean_political_scandal
Unfortunately most americans are too spineless to raise up and do anything about this bullshit so there will be no penalty.
Trump is of course known for not doing anything without precedent.
My question is why does Trump feel beholden to him now? It's not like he needs to win another election. Something else is going on here.
Trump likes and wants money?
Elon is actually rich from all his scams, unlike the traitor who is perpetually in debt.
That's all there is to it. The seditious, makeup wearing, draft dodging, lying, cheating, stealing little orange piss baby is just psychopathically greedy.
True, but what's doing my head in is Bezos and Zuckerberg are both bending the knee and doing what they're told, yet Musk can say what he wants and is still all cosy with Drumpf. Why is it that some money is good but other money doesn't get a say at all?
Unelected by the way
People were talking about a MAGA civil war. It will be over in a night if this is an indicator. Bannon is going to get such a long knife man. I assume, that is.
Aw, he's moved his lover in.
Let me guess, he wanted "that to sink in" ? 😂
I'd say he's gonna have more of an idiocracy in the white house.
Set? Office Space? OH! So he's going to reenact the movie !
Nah, he's just going to cosplay Kevin Malone.
Good grief. This post's thumbnail is huge and hard to look at.
They are building a playroom for trump and a tunnel between that and 9gal so they can swap, elon will "work" in the Oval - meaning he'll just stand in there and "floss" all day like the fucking loser he's repeatedly shown himself to be
So if someone were wanting to locate Musk to discuss his visa situation, or, you know, whatever, this will now be a good place to monitor his movements to and from.
We're all watching this story closely as it unfolds. I encourage you to listen to the macro side of these decisions. A good podcast episode is: https://pca.st/episode/750eb48b-abda-4b5b-9e55-78137234c1c0 Essentially, the choices they make and when they make them, will affect the standing of the dollar, and will affect the efficacy of Trump's presidency.
"Efficacy of Trump's presidency"? You're using words to legitimize the non-legitimizable. There's no reason to pay attention to any of this. It's going to be an unrelenting shit show that destroys the country. That's the macro and the micro. Why spend even a second looking into it?