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Former adviser taunts president over links to Epstein while Trump threatens to cancel contracts for Musk companies

Elon Musk called for Donald Trump to be impeached after mocking his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk’s companies in an extraordinary social media feud on Thursday.

The deterioration of their once close relationship into bitter acrimony came over the course of several remarkable hours during which the president and the world’s richest man hurled deeply personal insults over matters significant and insignificant.

In the most churlish moment of the astonishing saga, Musk said on X the reason the Trump administration had not released the files into Epstein was because they implicated the president. He later quote-tweeted a post calling for Trump to be removed and said Trump’s tariffs would cause a recession.

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[-] mcv@lemm.ee 62 points 6 days ago

I think they're both right. The government should cut all ties with Musk's businesses, and Trump should be impeached. That way everybody wins.

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago

It hurts to agree with them doesn't it? Yet, it's so funny to watch them bite at each other.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 45 points 6 days ago

... I was not expecting this many people to (so strongly) take sides in what is basically a kerfuffle between two mega villains.

(Og) Nazis had a lot of infighting too, still fascist mass murderers.

[-] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

thx for clarifying "og"

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago

Wow they are arguably the most powerful people in the world and they are having a public squawky slappy fight like stroppy toddlers.

Meanwhile humanity is circling the drain. We are so fucked.

[-] necrobius@lemmy.zip 28 points 6 days ago

It was inevitable. Two egos as big as theirs cannot coexist in close proximity indefinitely.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was a psychologist until I got burned out.

During those years, I observed something countless times that seems counter-intuitive but is in my anecdotal experience reliably true:

Narcissists tend to actually like each other, and seem to bond effortlessly. "you're the best thing ever? Holy shit, I'm the best thing ever! We're so amazing it's awesome!" type thing. It's fascinating.

That's why I'm not going to be played by this. Elon and Donald both have something significant to gain by pretending to "break up with" Each other, Elon trying to detoxify his brand especially internationally and Donald by proving he isn't Elon's bitchboy.

They might be legitimately warring in public, they might be playing the media and the people, there's really no way for outside parties to know at this time, and I wish people would pay more attention to the people Trump is hurting than this ultimately pointless real or not catfight. Invoking Epstein is low hanging fruit, as anyone who isn't in Trump's cult and paying any attention has been aware Trump is an Epstein pedo for years and years.

[-] MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml 38 points 6 days ago
[-] LordGimp@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

This is perfect

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 37 points 6 days ago

Elon's going to lose this fight. All the other rich people backing Trump still think the snake won't bite them, and Elon doesn't have the same cult of personality Trump does. He had some good will for a while, but he's been burning that ever since the weird pedo guy thing, and that's nowhere near Trump's fucking cult energy. Forty years from now there's still going to be dumbasses and edgy teens talking about how they heard a rumor that Trump is still alive out there in the wastes that used to be middle America.

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 18 points 6 days ago

Elon doesn't have the same cult of personality Trump does

He used to, but then he started associating with Trump.

[-] mcv@lemm.ee 16 points 6 days ago

It seems he wasn't aware that his cult following came from the other end of the political spectrum.

Well, not quite the other end, but environmentally inclined business friendly liberals are still not quite Trump's crowd.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

He really used to - remember all the iron man shit? The image of the benevolent billionaire who was going to open up space? I'm ashamed to admit I was tempted to believe too.

He lost the positive public image before he started associating with trump tho. I think what happened was he fired his PR team because he thought he could do better himself. Right around the time he got pissy and was calling that cave diver a pedo, the guy who saved a bunch of kids in Thailand. It was all downhill from there and I don't remember ever seeing anyone piss away so much public goodwill so quickly.

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Im gonna be honest, I never bought into the whole Phony Stark persona but I did but him at the same level as Bill Gates, (no such thing as a good billionare, but he's doing SOME good things with his ill gotten gains).

The dudes brain is fucking fried for sure now. If he hadn't hurt so many people, id almost feel bad for him.

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 21 points 6 days ago

There is no denying it any more, the US is a very corrupt country

[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

Everything is about money here and I hate it so much. But I can't find an exit.

[-] pneumatron@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Last week tho, totally deniable. Now, not so much.

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago

I have been saying it for decades that the US is corrupt, but people have been dying it for decades as well

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

Is there anything more Pride Month than Conservatives having to watch their two daddies fight?

[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago

I know I'm feeling proud the Tesla brand took such a nosedive

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 18 points 6 days ago

But they did impeach him, Leon. Multiple times. The trouble is he just ignores it.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 6 days ago

He ignores it because 95% of Republicans don't care about crimes, just the party.

[-] Kage520@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Impeached from the House sets up for conviction from the Senate. We need all of Congress to go through for it to have any effect.

Maybe this time a strongly worded reprimand would do the trick.

[-] SamHoppers@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

Never could have seen this coming… two narcissists that only get along as long as they’re powdering each others butts.

[-] rodneyck@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

An abusive relationship between two narcissists, one with a ADHD, the other with a huge coke problem. Stay tuned next week, same bat channel, same bat time.

[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

hold on. which one is which?

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think the one with ADHD refers to the one with a ketamine problem, while the one with a huge coke problem refers to the one that's progressing through dementia.

But I'm not sure, because their issues could be overlapping.

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

He's trying to distance himself because his company is burning and is using the media. Musk's playbook is to attention and boost himself like posting about dogecoin. Musk is using the media, but his Nazi views hasn't changed.

[-] Nocomment@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago

I want to know what’s happening quietly while everybody’s all consumed with the ego drama.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

We still have the big bogus bill….

[-] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

But what about Musks association with Ghislaine Maxwell?

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

extraordinary that two man babies who own their own SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS post some shit posts and probably fall asleep half way through.

[-] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I wonder if Musk will get the Jack Ma treatment or if Trump is a weak baby leader that isn't as strong as Xi. Imagine the Republican party being weaker than the CCP.

[-] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

unfortunately for musk, unlike with twitter, Russia won't help fund this endeavor.

[-] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Any chance this just one big psyop? Are these people really this stupid...

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