As I wrote about Elon Musk in March:
"But what I do know about Elon Musk is very clear: he's not a politician, doesn't want to be. He's a businessman... an oligarch. If he thought he could make a billion dollars producing nothing but vegan foods and other products and thought campaigning to outlaw meat, junk food, and soft drinks, so his vegan business would be even more successful, that's exactly what he would do. Even while still eating cheeseburgers (and I don't what he actually like to eat) with fries and washing that down with chocolate milkshake. And that would make him very popular with the Hippie-Left in America, (to keep it real) even if they founded out that he still eats meat and likes his junk food and soft drinks...
From The New Democrat
As Derik Schneider wrote about Elon Musk yesterday:
"As Fred said, Elon Musk is not a politician, or even a political activist. At least not a full-time political activist, who tries to advance some partisan movement, or political philosophy. He's a businessman... an oligarch. The only thing or person that he wants to advance, is Elon Musk. And he's just the latest person who got into bed with Donald Trump and came out soaking in sweat, because the only person whoever does well with Donald Trump... is Donald Trump. A look at what has happened to Elon Musk and his company Tesla since Musk went to work for the President in January...
From The New Democrat
And as Kire Schneider wrote about Elon Musk earlier today:
"In case anyone in the world (who is not in their right mind, is currently drunk, high, in a mental institution, throwing a few back right now in a closet) missed The Rambling Don, he just made a reappearance at this joint news conference with the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich Merz. The President was given a simple question about Elon Musk and he turned it into how great and fabulous he thinks he is and perfect a job he's doing, with at best, a lot of misleading comments.
The President was asked a basic question about why Elon Musk is not speaking out against him. He sort of answered that question by saying that Mr. Musk didn't like the fact that House Republicans stripped the electric vehicle subsidy from the "Big Beautiful Bill. (That we call the Big Ugly Debt Bomb) That might be part of it, since Tesla makes EV's. But he went to The White House with the goal of eliminating $1T from the budget deficit, with his DOGE and they maybe found 5% of that instead. But to make it worst, their budget plan would add over $2T to the deficit. (According to the Republican controlled Congressional Budget Office)
Plus the fact, Elon Musk and his company Tesla are now worth 1/2 a trillion dollars less, than they were just in December of 2024. (According to Investors Business Daily) So if you are Mr. Musk right now, you could be thinking:
"What did I donate 6 months of life for to Donald Trump? To fend off being deported by a President Kamala Harris? Is that worth 1/2 trillion of my own money...
From The New Democrat
I don't have much to add about the Trump-Musk feud from what The New Democrat has already said about it the last 2 days. But Jim Acosta made a great point here:
"Maybe Elon Musk has hired a consultant, or a public relations firm and they're telling him that you have to go after Trump right now to save your company and get your profits and stocks back up... That's a paraphrase, but very close.
Whatever you want to call the Trump-Musk feud... and I don't pretend to be a mindreader, just like I don't pretend to be a world champion speller, or chess player... but only because I'm not, but I would bet just about anything that's all this is about. Elon Musk is loyal to one thing and 1 person... Elon Musk. And his reputation and company have taken a beating so bad, that if this were a boxing match, he wouldn't have lasted the 1st round. He thinks attacking Donald Trump and perhaps MAGA as a whole right now, is what he needs to do to bring his company and reputation back and that's exactly what he's doing.
And as far as Karine-Jean Pierre: before the Biden White House, she was part of the left-wing group MoveOn. She's not a Democrat in ideology anyway. More like a Berniecrat, or a member of the so-called Squad in the House. She was a registered Democrat, because she thought that party was the best way to advance her left-wing, social democratic brand of politics. And according to ABC News:
"Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has left the Democratic Party and is now an independent, according to a press release announcing her new book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines."
The release from Legacy Lit, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, said Jean-Pierre has chosen to "look beyond party lines" and is embracing "life as an independent," a decision it indicated she did not come to lightly.
Jean-Pierre, who served in the Biden administration, is somewhat vague about why she no longer identifies as a Democrat, writing that she feels the current political moment necessitates "freeing ourselves of boxes."
"Until January 20, I was responsible for speaking on behalf of the President of the United States," Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Wednesday. "At noon on that day, I became a private citizen who, like all Americans and many of our allies around the world, had to contend with what was to come next for our country."
From ABC News
And as Jim Acosta and Don Lemon both said, what KJP is doing here, is a very Trumpy thing to do. You work for the man as long as you can, you compile a lot of information about him and other people who worked for the President, then you leave The White House and spill the beans (so to speak) about what you saw when you were there. Most of the information that you compiled probably being very negative about who you worked with and for. And you make a lot of money as a result. But this is Donald Trump's Reality TV America now. So why not? Because this is how his game is played.
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