It took about 2 months for Elon Musk to fight with Trump’s base

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/elon-musk-loomer-trump-immigration-20004173.php

49 comments

  1. He just couldn’t keep his mouth shut. He just has to be in the spotlight.

  2. He thought he could find an adoring public in all Trump’s supporters and therefore went all right-wing, but got got a big reality check now it becomes clearer that their interests are not aligned.

    They don’t like him either.

  3. This is indicative of how the interests of trumps base and his donors/handlers are diametrically opposed yet the base voted for him anyway

  4. Trump will abandon his base. He has no more need for them.

  5. The best part is Trump would have just quietly let the visa program continue and nobody would have cared. But Musk just had to get baited into a Twitter fight about it.

  6. I’m getting popcorn ready to watch the Battle of Egos that Eclipse the Sun.

    Trump versus Musk!

    Will be better than any Netflix show.

  8. There is simply just no possible way anyone could have seen this coming.

  12. What an ugly loser. Richest man on earth seems sadder than most average ppl

  14. The comedy over the next few years is going to be amazing.

  15. He’s a tech bro. He’s all for the oligarchy and frat boy casual racism but maybe he doesn’t have the stomach for good old southern ignorance and self-harming spite.

  16. An interesting fact:

    Elon’s got 205M followers on Xitter

    Trump has only 95M followers — just a wee bit more than Taylor Swift (94M), but no nearly as many as Justin Bieber (110M)

    Interestingly, Obama has more Xitter followers (131M) than the Don. (that’s gotta hurt)

    Source:

    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_accounts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_accounts)

  17. This was inevitable but I thought Trump would have taken office first.

  19. MAGA splinter faction —> MCGA (Making Corporations Great Again). Screw America.

  20. This is all so ridiculous. Trump and Republicans emboldened the richest man on the planet, who is an insufferable attention-seeking megalomanic, who owns a social media platform and posts hundreds of times a day and wants to bend everything to his will with money. They even gave him a prominent advisory entity. He almost shut down the government from his own volition recently, and the media is obsessed with him.

    Republicans were happy to get his help for the election, but I don’t really know what their game plan is going to be going forward with Musk. It’s going to be hilarious watching them try and navigate it.

  22. He’s trying to overshadow Trump, and if you try to do that with a cult leader, you’re going to have to deal with their rabid cult members.

  23. These dipshit rednecks that can’t read at a sixth grade level thinks they should work as senior engineers at space x!! Haha

  24. I was honestly expecting him to last 6 months before he started pissing off both other GOPs and hardcore Trump followers inside the WH. But he did not even make it to the WH… Glad I was wrong

  25. I honestly thought we’d at least make it a week or two past the inauguration before the honeymoon period would end 🤪

  26. The fact that Trump is so silent while this is going on lends a lot of credibility to the “President Musk” memes.

  27. It’s wild that the only thing Musk had to do to fool people into thinking he was for the common man was to engage in a little “trans people bad” chicanery.

  28. The sissy solar and EV guy doesn’t fit into the coal roll crowd. He was pandering for the presidency. Flatter Trump and leave a few dollars and you can buy a timeshare in Trump’s presidency too…

  29. Jesus there are so many people who are *so* sure of themselves in this thread.

    “MAGA will implode now!”

    “Trump will leave his base.”

    I’m pretty sure not a fucking thing is going to happen, just like it never does. Most of his base will never see any of this and only the people who live online will see it, and they won’t even care either.

  30. But yah Kamala couldn’t be president cuz…she doesn’t have experience? She had no policies? 

  31. “Fight with” is maybe a bit reductive. Trump was elected by Americans that have been left behind by the people they elected to serve them. Their inflated grocery bills are negatively affecting their lives. They are left to struggle while politicians serve wealthy financial interests (both sides). The price of education that might enable social mobility is more and more out of reach.

    They elected Trump to fix it. Then he empowered these two knuckle -head finance guys who now want to not only remove the last flimsy measures of protection for Americans (social security, consumer financial protection, etc), but have declared that even educated Americans are *mentally inferior* and they (and people like them) should be allowed to import a sort of quasi – slave labor to do the best paying jobs.

    It helps only their class (the 0.0001%) and is so nakedly self interested it’s shocking, in an age where it is hard to shock anyone with political rhetoric. The fact that they would call Americans inferior to their faces to justify it perhaps the most tone-deaf thing I’ve ever witnessed and evidence that these guys are not the geniuses they purport to be.

    I’m amazed at the idea that anyone would need to be reigned in by Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer.

  32. Hillbillies who eat mayo with a spoon don’t have a lot in common with a foreign billionaire? WTF?!?

  33. This is delicious in that the way MAGA feels offended, betrayed and disgusted with Musk is exactly how half of America feels about having to deal with Trump these 8 years.

    Couldn’t happen to a better group of folks.

  34. The base doesn’t like immigrants because they’re a different race. Leon doesn’t like immigrants who are poor. That’s called nuance.

  35. Even the richest man in the world only heard what he wanted to hear from biggest con artist in history. There will be more of this. The GOP/MAGA/racist/edgelord/christian nationalist/depraved capitalist coalition that got Trump elected will go to war with itself. Everyone else will experience the collateral damage.

  39. It will be an interesting choice by Trump choosing between the common man supporting Trump and Musk. My money is on that Trump will follow the money.

  42. Once MAGAts figure out what H1b is, they’ll . . . maybe care. None of them is going to be applying for rocket scientist or science rescarcher jobs anytime soon.

  43. He forgot the entire ploy of the republican party…lie to their faces while you ship their jobs overseas

  44. And I thought all immigrants were prisoners sent here from other countries. Who knew they were educated!!! Yikes!

  45. For a really smart guy? He needs to shut the F-CK up and go back to his own country!

  46. It’s OK. Both sides are very conciliatory and emotionally mature groups. They’ll hash this out in no time.

    j/k

  47. Yeah 2 months but that’s still zero minutes on the actual job. This is gonna be fantastic. Not since FDR and Trump45 has anybody done a more adversarial cabinet meant mainly to war amongst themselves. Yes, I am a presidential scholar.

    Im cool with it. It is almost the only way Trump ever goes after domestic bad guys in a meaningful way. Usually he is beating up on partisan opponents or 3rd rate internet celebrities or the absurd fiction of a woke deep state. By beating up on bad guys, I mean what will happen when Musk and Vivek etc begin to explode and implode and therefore exit or cause themselves to be exited.

  48. Trump can’t get rid of Elon. It’s the deal he made with his overlord and boss, Vlad.

  49. Doesn’t matter, neither Trump nor Musk care about their base, their base are simply tools, the loudest voices will simply get Black Mirror Nosedived out of X.

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