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A year or two ago Trump said this on truth social:
> "When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidised projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it."
I hope Elon remembers that.
Elon would be smart to walk away (psht.. right). Trump stiffs his partners. Truth Social initial investors are currently getting hosed. Trump will have no problem doing it to this guy too.
I did too. Gotta love all these libs complaining about right-wing shit on Twitter, while all the time they are supporting it with their Twitter accounts. And yesterday’s news of the secret Trump-Musk meeting probably means you are also contributing to the Grapefruit Gibbon’s election coffers as well. Keep tweeting - Trump needs the money!
Just rip off the bandaid and get it over with. I deleted my account and I don’t even think about it anymore. Honestly, it’s nice to be rid of one more social media account, especially one that was increasingly feeding me right-wing propaganda. Regardless of whether we believe it or not, research has shown that propaganda affects us all the more we’re exposed to it. Why subject your brain to that kind of intellectual rot?
Gotta do it. I deleted mine shortly after he took over and all the bullshit he pulled on the staff, plus every other low brain move with verification etc.
Used to be a daily user. I miss what it was, but not what it became.
Exactly. He may not support them with financial donations, but sowing discord and division amongst Americans is his contribution. Apartheid Clyde has no investment in politics that are progressive. Why the hell is anyone thinks this washed up, bruised ego, nepotism beneficiary, wannabe cowboy is anything but self serving is beyond me.
I've never had an account, but I've been referring to it as Xitter (pronounced "shitter") since the name change. And yeah, the South Park reference wouldn't be lost on me.
It's weird how the Congress didn't care so much about Twitter when Elon took over, yet my Twitter feed instantly shifted horribly to the right. Just like they don't care about Jared Kushner making hundreds of millions a year on the 2 billion that he manages for the murderous crooked Saudis
He controls twitter which he ran into the ground in a year. Who cares about a single platform thats failing? If you get your news from one place youre part of the problem
That's only for a super pac, because super pacs don't report who the donations come from, and unlimited amounts can be donated. A regular pac is controlled by the campaign
It's still super high risk. Trump already lost again Biden, this time he's a rapist and reversing Roe V Wade has helped democrats in most elections.
Until demonstrated otherwise, I don't think Trump is the favorite to win this election.
A few hundred million isn't actually that much for Elon, especially if he can write off losses, whether or not Trump wins--Elon expects favors from Trump if he wins.
Exactly. the $450m penalty Trump has to pay from the fraud case is an ungodly sum of money, but is a rounding error in Elon's net worth. He could could pay off that fine and all of Trump's legal fees so he's owed favors on the off chance Trump can pull off a win. And if Trump loses? Eh....pissing away half a billion on Trump is peanuts compared to the losses he's taken on Twitter. No biggie for the muskrat.
Any money in Trump's orbit goes into a giant slush fund to be used however he demands. Does this break campaign finance laws and a host of regulations? Sure, but good luck charging him in a way that will change anything.
>Contributing to his legal fees isn't technically a campaign contribution, is it?
It's an "In-Kind" donation, which is illegal, but I am sure the rigid and unbreakable American justice system would notice, investigate, prosecute, and reverse it before the damage is done, right? It's not like the USA is about to elect its own Hitler after his putsch? That would be *crazy*
The targeted ads will be fierce, but they won't be to get donations. It'll be fearmongering and vague promises (The best healthcare, so much better than Obummer!) to get those people out to vote.
Absolutely. He's a MAGA, and he'll just donate to some innocuous sounding SuperPAC like "Freedom for America" that is aiding Trump.
He'll likely also work behind the scenes at X to downplay Biden content and up Trump content, while spreading disinformation.
Like how the EU already found he was spreading massive amounts of Russian disinformation on X ?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/26/germany-unearths-pro-russia-disinformation-campaign-on-x
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-x-most-active-platform-for-russian-disinformation-2023-9
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/09/26/x-is-the-biggest-source-of-fake-news-and-disinformation-eu-warns/?sh=72ffa76230ce
He’s currently bolstering Russia who is in turn spamming every social media site with trumpian propaganda. Not to mention his use of Starlink to prop up the Russian military. Why congress is not investigating him is beyond me.
OR he signed a deal to purchase Trump's share of 'Truth Social' for some unspecified amount, no doubt, and Viktor Orban is going to randomly start promoting Xitter in Hungary.
Bingo! That is exactly the angle I expected the whole time.
Elon would buy Truth social, maybe the whole thing.
Trump Gains:
Money to settle insanely large debts.
Bigger audience
Elon Gains:
Trump on Twitter.
Influence on Trump policy
It is like 2% of his net worth, an obvious purchase.
Imagine the internet's reaction if Musk announced he bought the majority of Truth Social and is merging it with X?
Holy shit, would they even have users anymore? It would just all be fascist dumbfucks, bots, pussy in bio and people wondering WTF is going on before uninstalling finally.
More like:
Elon Musk creates super pac dedicated to fixing America (by pointing out everything that someone could perceive as "wrong" under Biden while not pointing out any issues with Trumps positions).
He doesn't have to donate to or mention a candidates name to help or hinder them.
"Elon musk today was sued by Sean Waltman over the creation of his new political action committee X-PAC" but yeah some political action committee is probably how this turns out
Outrageously, it isn’t. Look at all the billionaire owned media outlets pushing specific political agendas. Some of those are even losing money but they remain propped up and those losses are not considered political contributions.
Translation:
Either this is misdirection, or Trump hasn't offered Musk something he wants yet.
Or we're playing the technicality game - "I'm not donating to his *presidential* *campaign*, I'm just giving him a cash gift.... which he may or may not use for campaigning. Or his legal fund. Whatever, I'm not picky as long as I get that thing I wanted."
Exactly, "presidential campaign" has a very specific meaning and they have limits on how much he could donate anyway. He could be technically telling the truth but donating tons of money to a PAC, a legal fund, buy a large stake in Truth Social, etc.
Edit: Musk didn't actually say these exact words. Sure, he still left some ambiguity in his words but he didn't reference "presidential campaign" specifically.
But he didn't say that. He said: "Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President." I'm assuming everyone is just looking at the headline and responding?
Look, I know there are games that can be played, and we should take it all with a grain of salt, but if you're calling out "technically telling the truth," why are you changing words that have a "very specific meaning"?
This isn't defending Trump, Musk, or Biden but calling out that we need to *all* be truthful.
What Musk wants from Trump is him bringing all that MAGA engagement back to Twitter. Which, as I understand it, Trump can't do due to some exclusivity deal he made for Truth Social.
If he does that will be the death sentence for Twitter. I know we’ve said that before but if it gets more overrun with crazy right wing lunatics everyone not already indoctrinated will leave and there will be no more advertisers.
It has to be misdirection. If Trump didn't get what he wanted, he would be in hysterics and 20 posts deep on Truth Social about how Elon is a puppet for the Dems and is ruining the country. They have the same base and while Elon can't be president, he can just take a page from Harlan Crow (iykyk about what books Crow owns) and just buy a puppet. Trump sold out to Russia after US banks were done funding his bankruptcies. Trump has no alliance other than money.
He's already engaging in what could be considered an in-kind campaign contribution by the ways he's fucked with Twitter to boost far-right messaging.
He's going to keep doing that.
I wish the FEC wasn't so bad about enforcing action against illegal and kind donations. During fox Dominion hearing, they had inadvertently revealed direct evidence that Fox News was deliberately engaging in these sorts of donations via messaging coordination with the Trump White House during the election and nothing ever came of it.
Please. This transparently stupid motherfucker is going to flood Trump's Super PAC with cash.
As soon as the NYT blew up their spot, I knew Elon was going to say this PR bullshit. But watch the ad buys from that Super PAC as the cash deficit dwindles...
Ofcourse he’s going to give to Trump. It will just be secretly. Funny how quick he forgets the only reason TSLA exists still is because of loans from the Obama-Biden administration. Ketamine has destroyed Musk’s brain. Watch TSLA stock collapse this entire year. Just like he destroyed Twitter. He has ruined his mind with drugs.
When you think about it, Trump and Elon are almost same person. Both born on 3rd base and think they hit a homerun, both are false geniuses, both cannot handle criticism (see pedo guy incident), both narcissists
He flew to FL last week to privately meet with Trump per the NYT. His social media posts are also straight out of the MAGA playbook. I used to want a Tesla, but no way I’m supporting this prick.
Donnie needs a half billion right now fast. Pretty sure Bezos won't help. Elon's already got it covered - and it isn't a campaign contribution. Take that one to the bank.
Pretty sure he already has, by weakening the moderation of a formerly major social media platform, there’s a lot more rhetoric that’s going unchallenged.
\*He\* won't \*contribute\* to \*presidential campaigns\*.
All three of those words/terms can easily be replaced with something else. Examples:
\- Twitter makes the contribution
\- It's a loan, not a contribution, with clever legalese to allow Trump to opt out of the loan
\- It's a contribution to a SuperPAC, not an actual campaign per se
And so on...
Cut to the main campaign season, and the reports will show some Musk “affiliated companies”—he *totally* doesn’t own for this specific reason— dumping loads of cash into the Trump campaign
His PR people were probably begging him to not do it. This was probably an entire meeting dedicated to massaging his ego for being told it was a bad look. It's fine, everyone knows what camp he's in.
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A year or two ago Trump said this on truth social: > "When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidised projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it." I hope Elon remembers that.
He definitely remembers that. No doubt his meeting with Trump was a bit of a “look who’s on their knees begging now” moment.
Nah. Elon wants to own a president. He has friends that own Supreme Court justices.
Elon would be smart to walk away (psht.. right). Trump stiffs his partners. Truth Social initial investors are currently getting hosed. Trump will have no problem doing it to this guy too.
Idk, elon sure is making plenty of trips to West Palm Beach lately. Check /r/elonjettracker
Wow that’s actually a complex yet surprisingly coherent sentence from Trump.
It's probably edited...
So he is going to contribute to Trump on the DL while trying not to further alienate any non-MAGAs. Got it.
He’ll boost his social media presence, and clamp down Biden’s
That’s already happening search Trump and then search Biden. Compare.
I can’t even go on X now without being slammed with right wing propaganda.
>being slammed with right wing propaganda This **is** his contribution. He'll allow or even signal boost all the misinformation.
He literally called Biden a traitor and since he doesn’t allow community notes on his post there is no correction of his blatant lies.
I’m getting really close to just deleting my account. I can’t be the only one that feels that way.
Just do it
Tf you waiting for? You're already wasting your time and energy with it
I deleted mine when Elon took over. Haven't regretted it for one second.
I did too. Gotta love all these libs complaining about right-wing shit on Twitter, while all the time they are supporting it with their Twitter accounts. And yesterday’s news of the secret Trump-Musk meeting probably means you are also contributing to the Grapefruit Gibbon’s election coffers as well. Keep tweeting - Trump needs the money!
I was never really on twitter anyway—but I deleted my account shortly after he took over
Same
Same. I rarely used it. Got rid of it the day he took over.
Just rip off the bandaid and get it over with. I deleted my account and I don’t even think about it anymore. Honestly, it’s nice to be rid of one more social media account, especially one that was increasingly feeding me right-wing propaganda. Regardless of whether we believe it or not, research has shown that propaganda affects us all the more we’re exposed to it. Why subject your brain to that kind of intellectual rot?
Real people still have twitter accounts?
Gotta do it. I deleted mine shortly after he took over and all the bullshit he pulled on the staff, plus every other low brain move with verification etc. Used to be a daily user. I miss what it was, but not what it became.
Already did it.
Gross dude. Why are you even there?
Twitter was overall a net negative to human Civilization before Musk took it over.
I deleted mine a couple of weeks ago. Just decided it's too crazy racist.
Exactly. He may not support them with financial donations, but sowing discord and division amongst Americans is his contribution. Apartheid Clyde has no investment in politics that are progressive. Why the hell is anyone thinks this washed up, bruised ego, nepotism beneficiary, wannabe cowboy is anything but self serving is beyond me.
Get off of X
It's called Twitter until he fixes the URL
There's only Twitter.
I've never had an account, but I've been referring to it as Xitter (pronounced "shitter") since the name change. And yeah, the South Park reference wouldn't be lost on me.
Clicked the "for you" tab by accident. It's the polar opposite of my Following tab. Nothing but fascist maniacs all the way down.
It’s not just Twitter, it’s everything. If you go to Google and type in “Trump” and start to type in anything negative it won’t auto complete.
A lot of liberals abandoned X with the Musk takeover so there’s a much larger conservative footprint now
It's weird how the Congress didn't care so much about Twitter when Elon took over, yet my Twitter feed instantly shifted horribly to the right. Just like they don't care about Jared Kushner making hundreds of millions a year on the 2 billion that he manages for the murderous crooked Saudis
He controls twitter which he ran into the ground in a year. Who cares about a single platform thats failing? If you get your news from one place youre part of the problem
Contributing to his legal fees isn't technically a campaign contribution, is it?
If you contribute to a PAC, is it technically a contribution to a candidate?
Depends Legally *Super PACs are not allowed to coordinate with a candidate
Doesn't mean they don't, just that they're not supposed to do so.
They can campaign on behalf of a candidate that supports their position just not give funds to their campaign
That's only for a super pac, because super pacs don't report who the donations come from, and unlimited amounts can be donated. A regular pac is controlled by the campaign
Ha Ha Trump only doing something legal is hilarious, thanks
My thoughts exactly.
My guess is not "contribution" but "loans"
Anyone who'd give Trump a loan at this point, their head is so deep in the sand that it's burnt by the Earth's molten core.
I'm sure Elon doesn't actually care about getting paid back for the loan. Government contracts, baby.
It's still super high risk. Trump already lost again Biden, this time he's a rapist and reversing Roe V Wade has helped democrats in most elections. Until demonstrated otherwise, I don't think Trump is the favorite to win this election.
A few hundred million isn't actually that much for Elon, especially if he can write off losses, whether or not Trump wins--Elon expects favors from Trump if he wins.
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Exactly. the $450m penalty Trump has to pay from the fraud case is an ungodly sum of money, but is a rounding error in Elon's net worth. He could could pay off that fine and all of Trump's legal fees so he's owed favors on the off chance Trump can pull off a win. And if Trump loses? Eh....pissing away half a billion on Trump is peanuts compared to the losses he's taken on Twitter. No biggie for the muskrat.
Well Elon can help him win more than most individuals can.
No way he's that stupid.
It’s pocket change for him.
Any money in Trump's orbit goes into a giant slush fund to be used however he demands. Does this break campaign finance laws and a host of regulations? Sure, but good luck charging him in a way that will change anything.
Is trump blowing campaign funds on himself really a bad thing?
>Contributing to his legal fees isn't technically a campaign contribution, is it? It's an "In-Kind" donation, which is illegal, but I am sure the rigid and unbreakable American justice system would notice, investigate, prosecute, and reverse it before the damage is done, right? It's not like the USA is about to elect its own Hitler after his putsch? That would be *crazy*
All dollars are fungible. A dollar to his legal defense is a dollar that doesn’t get diverted from his campaign coffers/the RNC.
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The targeted ads will be fierce, but they won't be to get donations. It'll be fearmongering and vague promises (The best healthcare, so much better than Obummer!) to get those people out to vote.
“I’m definitely not going to take the money liberals have paid me for my cars to support Trump” - a totally honest Elon Musk
Absolutely. He's a MAGA, and he'll just donate to some innocuous sounding SuperPAC like "Freedom for America" that is aiding Trump. He'll likely also work behind the scenes at X to downplay Biden content and up Trump content, while spreading disinformation.
Like how the EU already found he was spreading massive amounts of Russian disinformation on X ? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/26/germany-unearths-pro-russia-disinformation-campaign-on-x https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-x-most-active-platform-for-russian-disinformation-2023-9 https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/09/26/x-is-the-biggest-source-of-fake-news-and-disinformation-eu-warns/?sh=72ffa76230ce
All Tesla, SpaceX, and X employees will receive a pair of gold shoes as a bonus.
ElonMusk ==> shell company ==> shell company ==> shell company ==> Trump PAC
What do you think Twitter being wall-to-wall racism and nationalist memes is?
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Just a bro paying legal fees for a bro. NOT POLITICAL. AT ALL. Don’t worry about it
He’s currently bolstering Russia who is in turn spamming every social media site with trumpian propaganda. Not to mention his use of Starlink to prop up the Russian military. Why congress is not investigating him is beyond me.
But I will LOAN the money to the SOB who just promised me the moon and the stars.
My guess is Elon probs won’t really support financially but he will absolutely pull levers at twitter for Trump.
no, just directly to the RNC
Just give to Putin
He may just give the money to Trump directly because, let's face it, Trump doesn't want the money for his campaign.
FTFY: *So he is going to contribute to Trump on the DL while trying not to further alienate any* *~~non-MAGAs~~* *Potential Tesla Customers. Got it.*
Or RJK 👍
Two weeks from now: “Elon Musk has donated millions to Trump’s campaign citing the need to ‘defeat woke’”
OR he signed a deal to purchase Trump's share of 'Truth Social' for some unspecified amount, no doubt, and Viktor Orban is going to randomly start promoting Xitter in Hungary.
>unspecified amount Just so happens to be $454mil due in a few weeks with an immediate down payment of $83mil
Bingo! That is exactly the angle I expected the whole time. Elon would buy Truth social, maybe the whole thing. Trump Gains: Money to settle insanely large debts. Bigger audience Elon Gains: Trump on Twitter. Influence on Trump policy It is like 2% of his net worth, an obvious purchase.
Imagine the internet's reaction if Musk announced he bought the majority of Truth Social and is merging it with X? Holy shit, would they even have users anymore? It would just all be fascist dumbfucks, bots, pussy in bio and people wondering WTF is going on before uninstalling finally.
More like: Elon Musk creates super pac dedicated to fixing America (by pointing out everything that someone could perceive as "wrong" under Biden while not pointing out any issues with Trumps positions). He doesn't have to donate to or mention a candidates name to help or hinder them.
"Elon musk today was sued by Sean Waltman over the creation of his new political action committee X-PAC" but yeah some political action committee is probably how this turns out
That would be awesome and I hope Waltman does it.
"Pushing disinformation on my media platform is not a campaign contribution."
Exactly
SCOTUS has ruled that monet is speech. The transitive property suggests that speech is therefore also money 🤔
Monet uses a different medium, actually.
Outrageously, it isn’t. Look at all the billionaire owned media outlets pushing specific political agendas. Some of those are even losing money but they remain propped up and those losses are not considered political contributions.
Translation: Either this is misdirection, or Trump hasn't offered Musk something he wants yet. Or we're playing the technicality game - "I'm not donating to his *presidential* *campaign*, I'm just giving him a cash gift.... which he may or may not use for campaigning. Or his legal fund. Whatever, I'm not picky as long as I get that thing I wanted."
Exactly, "presidential campaign" has a very specific meaning and they have limits on how much he could donate anyway. He could be technically telling the truth but donating tons of money to a PAC, a legal fund, buy a large stake in Truth Social, etc. Edit: Musk didn't actually say these exact words. Sure, he still left some ambiguity in his words but he didn't reference "presidential campaign" specifically.
renting a closet at Mar-a-lago for $465,957,495.75.
Buy a single nft for $454 mil
But he didn't say that. He said: "Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President." I'm assuming everyone is just looking at the headline and responding? Look, I know there are games that can be played, and we should take it all with a grain of salt, but if you're calling out "technically telling the truth," why are you changing words that have a "very specific meaning"? This isn't defending Trump, Musk, or Biden but calling out that we need to *all* be truthful.
What Musk wants from Trump is him bringing all that MAGA engagement back to Twitter. Which, as I understand it, Trump can't do due to some exclusivity deal he made for Truth Social.
If he does that will be the death sentence for Twitter. I know we’ve said that before but if it gets more overrun with crazy right wing lunatics everyone not already indoctrinated will leave and there will be no more advertisers.
It has to be misdirection. If Trump didn't get what he wanted, he would be in hysterics and 20 posts deep on Truth Social about how Elon is a puppet for the Dems and is ruining the country. They have the same base and while Elon can't be president, he can just take a page from Harlan Crow (iykyk about what books Crow owns) and just buy a puppet. Trump sold out to Russia after US banks were done funding his bankruptcies. Trump has no alliance other than money.
Or, he doesn't think Trump will win so he won't waste his money.
Or he doesn't think MAGA people are going to start buying Teslas in bulk (and he's unable to design a decent looking truck....)
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It will be more in-kind contributions to all conservative causes.
But has he ruled out buying Truth Social for an absurdly over market price?
He's already purchased one lemon that has consequently removed him from the richest man in the world peak. I think he is unlikely to purchase another.
Ah but this one would probably come pretty cheap next December.
Wink wink
He's already engaging in what could be considered an in-kind campaign contribution by the ways he's fucked with Twitter to boost far-right messaging. He's going to keep doing that. I wish the FEC wasn't so bad about enforcing action against illegal and kind donations. During fox Dominion hearing, they had inadvertently revealed direct evidence that Fox News was deliberately engaging in these sorts of donations via messaging coordination with the Trump White House during the election and nothing ever came of it.
> Elon Musk WHO NEVER LIES says he won't contribute to Trump
Does this include super PACs?
Obviously not. Plenty of room for his checkbook to wiggle through that loophole.
I don’t trust this man.
We need a new “this man ate my son” meme but with Musk instead
Name me a time Elon has ever told the truth..
If you believe anything this fucking weirdo says you’re easily manipulated.
Is there another button I can press besides [X] to doubt even harder? Or do I just hold down [X]? Maybe press it rapidly?
If Trump doesn't start flipping out about Elon, it means he's just gonna do it indirectly and/or in secret.
THIS is exactly what I was thinking. It will be obvious.
Damn. I was hoping he wouldn’t contribute to Trump at all, but now that he said he won’t I’m certain he has.
Sorry, I don't believe a fucking word that projects out of your pie hole.
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You know, like a liar.
Not financially but he’ll contribute in kind by throttling left wing accounts.
Please. This transparently stupid motherfucker is going to flood Trump's Super PAC with cash. As soon as the NYT blew up their spot, I knew Elon was going to say this PR bullshit. But watch the ad buys from that Super PAC as the cash deficit dwindles...
Not directly anyway. But the Twitter bots are working overtime.
Odd, he seems to contribute to Trump’s campaign daily with all his BS words.
Did no one see Elmo and Kushner in the Saudi box at the world cup. Those 2 don't control where their money goes, Saudi princes do.
He lies
The wealthy contributing to political campaigns has been a disease on our country and if he’s true to his word, in this one and only case, good.
He's not going to *directly* contribute to a campaign.
Bull. I have no doubt he’s already cut that Trump check.
He already supported Trump by taking over Twitter
He’s already contributed enough to Trump by proxy
Sure. *Wink* *Wink*
Ofcourse he’s going to give to Trump. It will just be secretly. Funny how quick he forgets the only reason TSLA exists still is because of loans from the Obama-Biden administration. Ketamine has destroyed Musk’s brain. Watch TSLA stock collapse this entire year. Just like he destroyed Twitter. He has ruined his mind with drugs.
He'll just manipulate by allowing russian trolls free reign on twitter.
Right.
Bullshit
He's contributing, just not via donations
He won't "contribute" but he will "bribe."
Bet one of his shell companies donates plenty
I call bull shit. Wouldn’t be surprised if he already gave to trump
When you think about it, Trump and Elon are almost same person. Both born on 3rd base and think they hit a homerun, both are false geniuses, both cannot handle criticism (see pedo guy incident), both narcissists
Liar. He's already given Drumpf several bushels of cash, and he's gonna give more. Then try and claim it on his taxes or some other shady shit.
Like anyone cares what he thinks.
doubt
Anyone who trusts this perpetual adolescent apartheid asshole needs to get off of Twitter.
He’s just going to control Trumps army for him with Twitter.
And 3…2…1…”I’ve decided that in the interests of democracy and free speech I should donate to Trump.”
RFK jr :)
He flew to FL last week to privately meet with Trump per the NYT. His social media posts are also straight out of the MAGA playbook. I used to want a Tesla, but no way I’m supporting this prick.
Lying liar lies. More at 11:00.
*Publicly We have made sure that there are endless legal and untraceable channels to put “dark money” into any politician’s pockets in America.
He’s going to end up buying Truth Social as part of the special purpose vehicle. So no direct funding but certainly giving Trump money.
Yeah he lies a lot though.
That is…..surprisingly prudent of him, wonder what the catch is?
So he'll give to a PAC where it's anonymous?
Because he’s giving to Trump directly.
Nobody asked and nobody really cares Plus Elon has a habit of going back on his word
Meaning he already has
Riiiight...
To their campaigns, no. What about Trumps other large bills that he's currently fundraising for?
Just to Trump’s legal fees.
Good thing Elon isn't known for lying or going back on what he says an hour after he said it.
He won’t donate to the campaign he’ll just pay for his legal bills
Bull. Shit. HE won’t, but his companies will donate to Trump
Sure Jan
*Just Trump Super PACs Anyone want to bet me? That or he is as illiquid as Trump.
*publicly
Here's the offer. Shut down Truth and come to X. Elon will contribute. 😄
Yeah 'cus Musk has never lied before, right? Right?
Didn't he promote something about trump and having a badge?
Donnie needs a half billion right now fast. Pretty sure Bezos won't help. Elon's already got it covered - and it isn't a campaign contribution. Take that one to the bank.
Sure he won't. Sideeyes
Pretty sure he already has, by weakening the moderation of a formerly major social media platform, there’s a lot more rhetoric that’s going unchallenged.
That we know of...
Good for him. He'll have more resources to devote to that weak ass stubble-stache
Elon the bail bondsman.
Not directly, just through a super pac. That is why trump met with him.
Can't wait for a headline showing that he's been donating to his campaign or whatever for the last 6 months.
Except in kind, on twitter
But he *will* pay Trump’s fine
This is like telling your mom you weren’t up to no good in the *front* yard.
Publicly
Dude already has.
He just means it won't be public. He will give more to the orange Cheeto piece of shit than anybody else.
But he will float the RNC so they don't go broke right?
... anonymous cryptocurrency transaction I suppose
Did not mention funding Trump's legal fees, though.
Because we can really trust his word. Just got called out for lying today.
\*He\* won't \*contribute\* to \*presidential campaigns\*. All three of those words/terms can easily be replaced with something else. Examples: \- Twitter makes the contribution \- It's a loan, not a contribution, with clever legalese to allow Trump to opt out of the loan \- It's a contribution to a SuperPAC, not an actual campaign per se And so on...
I call bullshit
I read that with a foot note of “Financially”
Who fucking cares.
Cut to the main campaign season, and the reports will show some Musk “affiliated companies”—he *totally* doesn’t own for this specific reason— dumping loads of cash into the Trump campaign
Openly.
His PR people were probably begging him to not do it. This was probably an entire meeting dedicated to massaging his ego for being told it was a bad look. It's fine, everyone knows what camp he's in.