Trump taunted over ‘most powerless image of a president’ ever
Trump taunted over ‘most powerless image of a president’ ever
It's "a picture of presidential subservience the likes of which we have never seen," said MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.
Summary
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell criticized Donald Trump’s Oval Office press conference with Elon Musk, calling it “the most powerless image of a president” ever.
Musk dominated the event—standing over Trump, speaking more words, and violating White House norms with his casual attire and child’s presence.
O’Donnell contrasted Musk’s influence with Trump’s past and present vice presidents, arguing that neither Mike Pence nor JD Vance would challenge Trump’s authority in such a manner.
Elon's kid made a fucking bitch of trump on live television and we can never go back from that moment
violating White House norms with his casual attire and child’s presence.
He also had a 5 year old with him.
Trump?
You want to get rid of Musk, stuff like this is how you do it.
Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won't be able to handle it. Look how fast he lost his shit during that debate with Harris when the subject of his crowd size came up.
I really think people who say this aren't reading the room. It's not the same old Trump. This is an old broken down mentally deficient Trump. This isn't a case of an alliance between equals. This is a case of a grifter taking advantage of a guy too old to make decisions for himself. This is like a guy stealing the Social Security checks , altering the will , and selling assets for his own gain. I mean by all means keep saying it, cuz who knows and it is true, I just don't think it'll work. If anything it might be embolding Musk and legitimizing him.
No one knows what the deal is with that relationship. Maybe this is all part of their plan, maybe Elon has dirt on Trump, maybe he's brainwashed and neuralink is more advanced than is publicly known. Maybe they're both being blackmailed, and Joe Biden is the one really pulling the strings, and he's trying to destroy the country as revenge for Harris?
There are a lot of equally likely possibilities here, so we shouldn't try to jump to conclusions.
Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won’t be able to handle it.
That's what I've thought until now, but after that display I don't think he'll do anything to Musk, who it seems really does have some power over him--the money of course, but maybe something else too--maybe some dirt, maybe something in conjunction with Putin. But to let that little brat say those things[*] to him and his only reaction was to be submissive and look away tells me Musk really is the one in control here. This is actually scary.
[*] "You're not the president, you need to go away" and "I want you to shut your fucking mouth up"
tips tinfoil hat
He rigged the election for him... Even if it didn't cause the win, if he has irrefutable proof he rigged the election then he can bring Trump down with him. He could boost it into everyone's Twitter feeds that he didn't actually win and they would be forced to do something about it.
This is 2016 Trump coming home to roost
Weird how one CEO gets Luigied and suddenly it's bring your kid to work day for president Musk.
Lol I think I can get behind Luigi as a verb
Also, who wears a basebal cap and a T-shirt, and brings his four-year old who - like any four-year old - can't shut the hell up in the oval office? I mean honestly, who is this guy? Just because he has money doesn't give him the right to turn the presidency into a fucking daycare center. He could at least pretend to respect the institution a little bit...
Just because he has money doesn't give him the right
Gonna stop you there, friend, and remind you that this is America. Yes it does.
On the other hand, maybe the most sensible things might have come from the 4-year-old ... Do we have an official statement from the child ?
P.S. : first time ever I'm not writing down the usual /sarcasmAt this point th presidency is meaningless and vomitous anyway. I don't care if they just start wearing wife beaters and golf shorts - they truly can't bring the position or country any lower.
I mean, he bought the presidency so….
I have never seen Trump act more servile towards anyone than when he pulled a chair out for Netanyahu.
The whole thing seemed to me to be a cutscene from the Red Alert universe.
Poor kid is named X. What stupid assholes his parents are: he's gonna have to bear that stupid name all his life.
Then again, he could have been called Twitter I guess...
he's gonna have to bear that stupid name all his life.
Now now... They could legally change it when they're 18.
Think of the relationship as a CEO and the chairman of the board, this is the way Trump sees it. The CEO is front and center but does the bidding of the chairman.
I don't think this is accurate of course but I'm sure Trump sees it this way.
I see two 4 year olds in this photo
Is that because the kid is 5?
Don’t forget Lil X!
3*
label musk as alpha and trump as beta in this picture (not that I believe in those labels but they do)
Then post it all over x-itter like crazy.. Don't let it die.. make this 'a thing'
And then watch Musk have the conundrum as to whether to take it down or not....
His ego wouldn't let him take it down, and make Donny Dump respond to it....
Pretty obvious that Jabba-the Orange is incompetent, confused and weak - a prime target for an even sleazier opportunist.
Or a puppeteer to pull his strings (or y'know... If he's a ventriloquist's dummy...)
Star trek deep space nine spoilers
Their relationship is like grand nagus zek
and ishka. Ishka wasnt allowed to do business under ferengi law due to being a woman. So she got close to zek and was acting behind the scenes to help maintain zeks appearance during his mental decline.
Musk, being an illegal immigrant, wouldn't have been able to be president directly. One difference being musk is clearly leading in the spotlight.
I understand this analogy.
I use arch, btw.
i feel like "schmuck" needs to make a comeback in the vernacular.
Schmusk
'trump taunted' is not news. The other half of the country sees this as a big dick power move. You can spin it any way you like. Pointless journalism. What's the point?
It's not journalism. It's entertainment.
I know. I wish it was treated as such. I really hope people in the future come to value nuance.
We were being shown who the real owners are (incel Dogebags like fElon) , and diaper donvict has to sit there and take it along with the rest of us.
Musk America Great Again
Mock America Goodly Always
Cuck
Please share this image
This is not just bad, but desperate journalism. Nobody cares. It’s cruel to feed readers wishful thinking like this.
Wow, it has to be bad if it beats a tan suit. /s
rump is such a bitch!
His DEI's are bitches too! (don, eric, ivanka)
Either Trump will boot Musk out because he can't stand the perception that someone is giving him orders or this will be literally the only time that he has not done the stupidly petty thing, because the one thing you can rely on Donald Trump to do is the worst possible thing.
Speaking more words. Lmao.
Bigly
Bruh you're telling me Biden touching kids inappropriately and zoning out of his fucking mind videos is worse than this? hey
Let me preface this by saying I don't like trump, at all. But his powerlessness was nothing in comparison to whoever that democratic congresswoman outside the treasury building when DOGE was in there doing god knows what. Dems take the cake on appearing powerless, and that needs to change.