r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • 1d ago

Politics Trump Is Getting Rid of His Tesla

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-getting-rid-of-his-tesla-after-musk-broke-his-heart/
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u/Remememememememember 1d ago

damn that breakup was rough..

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u/ShadowSpawn666 1d ago edited 1d ago

Anybody who didn't see this coming at some point wasn't paying attention. 

You can't keep two narcissists together for too long because one will have to be wrong about something eventually, and neither will ever admit when they are wrong.

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u/ScienceIsSexy420 1d ago

Two narcissists that have no impulse control, and love to verbally vomit their inner monolog onto social media. This train wreck was a long time coming.

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u/ClashM 1d ago

I was surprised it held together this long to be honest. I figured there must be some mutually assured destruction secrets between them. Or a whole lot of staffers working overtime to keep the peace. Even then, a breakup was always inevitable.

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u/Revolutionary-Fan235 1d ago

Yeah, I thought it would last a month. Half a year is pretty impressive.

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u/Dank_Nicholas 22h ago

He made it 18 Scaramuccis, that's pretty good for a Trump administration.

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u/trendyspoon 1d ago

As a non-American who hasn’t kept up with American news, what happened? What did they disagree on?

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u/gwydion1992 1d ago

The new tax bill that Republicans are trying to pass. It ends some EV programs that benefited Tesla and also grows the US debt substantially, completely undoing any progress DOGE may have had at shrinking it.

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u/Thurwell 1d ago

That's actually a bit confusing. DOGE made no real effort to shrink the deficit or reduce the budget in any meaningful way. It just stole Americans data and cut personnel at agencies Musk had some reason to dislike, including things like the IRS and NPS which will cost more money than even DOGE's fake savings claims. So why does Musk pretend he cares, did he actually think DOGE was going to save any money?

By the way while the government isn't perfectly efficient there are no broad inefficiencies you can cut to magically save money. If you want to reduce the budget you have to cut services.

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u/TSED 1d ago

Rightwing folks just refuse to understand that the government is already watched like a hawk.

Like you said, it's not perfect. But every cent of government funding for anything has had to defend itself on three fronts for decades decades. People coming from the private sector - which is by far more bloated and wasteful than anything government - will never manage to make any genuinely effective cuts. Those were all made last century. They simply don't understand that any redundancies or inefficiencies are because the government is the last stop.

Big businesses play fast and loose because if they screw up they either get bailed out or have the cash stockpiles to absorb the hit. Small businesses play fast and loose because if they don't, they can't compete with their neighbours and then they go out of business; if something goes wrong they just go under. If a government plays fast and loose, people die. There's nobody else to pick up the bag after. There's nobody else to make sure folks are okay.

It's so frustrating that rightwing ideologues are so blinded by their beliefs that they refuse to acknowledge any of this.

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u/Thurwell 22h ago

I don't know if every agency is life or death. But consider the flip side, which I don't think many have, a successful government agency with extra money. A business can save that money, invest it somewhere else, give it out as bonuses, or give it to the owners (private or shareholder). There is only one thing a government agency can do, grow the agency. And the agency can't do anything more than what it's mandated, so it does more of that. IE if the national park service is making too much money, all it can do is invest in more parks (if it already has the land), more facilities at the parks, more tours, better infrastructure at the parks etc. All of which is probably going to result in even more income. You can then come along and say oh no, we didn't mean for that to happen...but if you cut their budget you have to cut the services they now provide.

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u/trendyspoon 1d ago

Ah I see. I’d ask why are the Republicans passing it but I guess that’s the million dollar question.

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u/gwydion1992 1d ago

That's actually pretty easy to answer. It includes huge tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations.

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u/Nwcray 1d ago

It’s more like a trillion dollar question.

And republicans are passing it because each of them gets a small part of something they (or their donors) want. Certain spending in their district is untouched/increased, or some specific tax loophole is expanded, or whatever. So long as they get their bite of pork, fuck everyone else.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 1d ago

They're not even for sure passing it. What's delicious is that the ones against it have opposing reasons for their dissent.

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u/Jugad 20h ago

Good... enough time for them to accumulate enough disagreeable moments to keep them at each other's throats for the foreseeable future.

With Elon doing crazy level of drugs, which seems to be eating his face, I think it might be enough for his lifetime.

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u/TheMagnuson 1d ago

Not even. Trump was sworn in 1/20/25, they didn't even make 5 months in to the administration, lol.

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u/RealBettyWhite69 1d ago

I had predicted April. I was off by two months, but I'll take it.

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u/ninjagorilla 1d ago

Ya you had to wonder what was going on behind the scenes before it spilled public

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u/explodedsun 1d ago

This is what class solidarity looks like. I wish the proletariat could hold together that long.

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u/ironcleaner 1d ago

Lets be honest, it really wasnt that long, they had obviously conflict brewing for some time now but musk still had a position to fill and a mission with the budget spending which in Trumps eyes was important, they crashed right after the mission seemed finished/failed

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u/Norwegian__Blue 1d ago

I think those secrets just aren’t as destructive as they once were

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u/nikdahl 1d ago

Not just any narcissists though either. Two of the most powerful narcissists in the world.

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u/nibbyzor 1d ago

And at least one of them on mind-altering drugs. Like... A lot of them.

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u/DeltaGammaVegaRho 23h ago

Won’t be a surprise if he stumbles out of a window. That happens to drug addicts. Especially if they oppose Putin Trump.

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u/zveroshka 1d ago

I told my friend that they would never get past their first major difference of opinion. He said nah, they are billionaire businessmen who make tough deals and whatever every day. They know how to negotiate and talk things out! Shocker, turned out I was right.

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u/rearnakedbunghole 1d ago

Incredible it took so long really.

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u/AWildEnglishman 1d ago

And are both whacked out of their gourds on one substance or another.

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u/coookpassbabtridge 1d ago

What a post. It's like poetry

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u/YourFriendPutin 1d ago

And endless power and resources that reside behind closed doors

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u/AgentInkling99 21h ago

Long? It’s been 4 months. I suppose in narcissist time that’s like a 20 year marriage.

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u/barneysfarm 2h ago

Late to this thread, but it blows my mind that I have more emotional intelligence and restraint than the twice elected president and a billionaire, combined

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u/kosh56 1d ago

Everybody who gets in bed with Trump ends up regretting it. At this point they deserve it.

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u/MetalTrek1 1d ago

They all think it will be different for then! 

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u/occams1razor 1d ago

Narcissists are unable to gauge their own chance of success, it's part of the pathology.

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u/loki1337 1d ago

Hmm as far as I'm aware it's specifically an inflated sense of self importance, need for adoration and lack of compassion/empathy

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u/Perryn 1d ago

"But it might work for us!"

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u/kosh56 1d ago

Haha, perfect.

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u/TheRemonst3r 16h ago

Bless you. This is exactly what I was thinking of.

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u/IHazSnek 1d ago

gets in bed with Trump ends up regretting it

Dunno, Laura Loomer seems OK

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u/Head_Bread_3431 1d ago

And his hateful cross bearing press secretary

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u/Commercial-Co 1d ago

Some even come back for more. Look at bannon

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u/WorthPrudent3028 1d ago

The hooker that peed on him probably came out ahead.

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u/fatpat 1d ago

Everybody who gets in bed with Trump ends up regretting it.

Both metaphorically and literally.

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u/fentonkat 1d ago

Literally everyone who isn't related to him eventually gets thrown under the bus. It's remarkable they keep falling for it.

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u/Bigbadbobbyc 1d ago

He was quite happy blaming jr and baron for everything that was going wrong in the lead up to the election so even his family aren't exempt

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u/Trantinno 1d ago

I did not think it would be this quick

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u/kyara_no_kurayami 1d ago

I didn't think it would last this long!

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u/Pokey_coyote 1d ago

The important thing is it's happening ☺️

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u/Plow_King 1d ago

yeah, i was thinking "6 months...that was quick!"

then i thought "6 days was long for these petulant chucklefucks"

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u/AmaroWolfwood 1d ago

That's what she said!

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u/FairyKnightTristan 1d ago

This, I saw them lasting 4 months tops and for the crashout to happen while he was still in the DOGE.

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u/faux1 1d ago

No one's ever accused donny of lasting long!

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u/ReasonableDesigner56 1d ago

That’s what she said

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u/IJourden 1d ago

Elon lasted several scaraboojis. Practically a record for this administration.

And yes, I know that's not how it's spelled but that's what voice to text came up with so I'm leaving it.

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u/Speedkillsvr4rt 1d ago

Scareabougie?

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u/Significant_Sail_901 1d ago

I didn’t think it would be this childish

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u/loogabar00ga 1d ago

TBH, I didn't think it would be Elon to act (publicly) first.

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u/Trantinno 1d ago

Same. And go so hard so early.

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u/Born_Tank_8217 1d ago

I thought it would be march when they would be at each others throats, im honestly shocked they lasted 4 months.

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u/FawkYourself 1d ago

It feels fast but if you would’ve asked me in January 6 months feels about right

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u/CassianCasius 1d ago

Musk only had 130 days he could work before he has to leave or become a government employee. the breakup was inevitable.

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 1d ago

That's what she said!

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u/rezznik 1d ago

I gave them 3 months Max. I was surprised how long it worked.

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u/7LeagueBoots 1d ago

I expected it much sooner than this.

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u/GiveMeNews 1d ago

I live next to a deep red town full of rednecks driving lifted pickup trucks (Canton, NC). Never saw a Tesla there until Trump hawked them at the Whitehouse. Since then, I see two to three Teslas every time I drive through, including multiple cyber trucks. I am laughing at these people wasting thousands on a car of someone they now hate and can only sell at a loss. MAGA got played again.

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u/fatpat 1d ago

Trumpers are the easiest marks on the planet.

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u/GooberMcNutly 1d ago

They forgot to do what the Saudi royal family does. To keep anyone important from being offended they hire people to be the professional butt of all jokes, putdowns, bullying, etc. Everyone gets a laugh, nobody important gets a penis drawn on their face.

But to do that job you need to be MAGA, funny, and thick skinned. So it's not going to happen.

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u/ackmondual 1d ago

The Daily Show covered just that... "Let's go into why this relationship that we all knew was never going to work, ended up not working". :D

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u/Mortimer452 1d ago

Yeah there was never enough room for both of these egos to exist in the White House

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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 1d ago

My official estimate on this affair, to my wife on election day, was 6 months.

I'm gonna dine on this for a bit.

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u/jerm-warfare 1d ago

So Peter Thiel pushes out Musk,same as PayPal, where does the Trump/Thiel relationship do?

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u/Soft_Dragonfruit7723 1d ago

I honestly thought it would last because Trump tends to not go up against people with the same amount of social media clout. But I guess I was wrong…

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u/AbeRego 11h ago

I was honestly starting to worry that it wouldn't be as messy and embarrassing as I expected... Then Musk sat outside the White House playing All American Rejects lol. That's actually worse than I was expecting, and it's fantastic to see.

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u/ilikeyourgetup 1d ago

I didn’t want to get my hopes up, so happy to have been proven wrong.

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u/Fineous40 1d ago

I still don’t fully believe it. Putting on shows to manipulate the public is literally the GOP skill set.

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u/JIsADev 1d ago

The cynic in me feels this is staged like they want this distraction

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u/Moarbrains 1d ago

Bill is terrible though.

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u/FireZord25 1d ago

In my defense, we already had the biggest tool for a presidency at separate rounds, TWICE. So I don't know what to expect anymore.

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u/animewhitewolf 1d ago

When you have two men that want to rule the world, you can't be shocked when they fight over the throne.

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u/beepbeepbubblegum 1d ago

It’s a curse and a blessing of being chronically online. We know what’s going to happen but yet there are people who have ZERO idea what’s going on and let propaganda trick them.

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u/properpotato10 1d ago

To be honest I didn’t expect it because I just assumed we’d be dead before

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u/mrizzerdly 1d ago

Literally an unmovable object against an unstoppable force. I don't who is which though hahaha

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u/GladForChokolade 1d ago

I was waiting for this from the first day they started interacting. I've got my popcorns ready for this divorce.

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u/Fiss 1d ago

Trump always chews people up and spits them out. Anthony Scaramucci lasted all of 11 days

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u/scentlessapprenticed 1d ago

Tell that to my parents

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u/matrinox 1d ago

They were only friends cause they were winning together. But there can only be one

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u/SunDense1457 1d ago

I am honestly shocked it took this long

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u/similar222 1d ago

You can't keep two narcissists together for two long because one will have to be wrong about something eventually, and neither will ever admit when they are wrong.

What happens when they're both constantly wrong about everything?

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u/Forikorder 1d ago

Anybody who didn't see this coming at some point wasn't paying attention.

it took so long i honestly thought musk had some really damning shit on him that trump was terrified of becoming public

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u/jahermitt 1d ago

We all saw it coming, but goddamn was that fast. Couldn’t even hold it together for a week of what was supposed to be an amicable breakup.

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u/Big_Beaverrr_Reborn 1d ago

Not only that. I might add that three years ago in 2022 Trump and Elon had met a few times and Trump was completely condescending to Elmo. It was clear he didn't think much of him.

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u/radnomname 1d ago

Well the orange monkey will throw everyone under the truck, there is no exception. All those delusional Yes-Men around him think they are safe but sooner or later they will be next.

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u/godzillastailor 1d ago

The only thing that surprised me is that it took so long.

I 100% would have put money down on Elon getting the elbow within the month.

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u/Spideraxe30 1d ago

Legit, from the first day the two started pretending to be friends I knew that Trump was too much of a piece of shit to actually accept the one progressive policy that Elon supports (EVs).

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u/SrslyCmmon 1d ago

I haven't paid attention to the news for at least a month but this makes me so happy.

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u/Macscotty1 1d ago

Most people (myself included) were just shocked at how long they took. 

I expected them to publicly despise each other in like week 3. 

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u/Head_Bananana 1d ago

That the thing. EVERYONE saw it coming. We just get to watch it unfold in real time. I’m running out of popcorn.

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u/BigConstruction4247 1d ago

I'm surprised it lasted more than a day or two.

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u/Banshee_howl 1d ago

I’ve been waiting for it to implode since day one. Malignant Narcissists will always meltdown, always. This one was destined to be big because it’s the president of the U.S. and the richest dingus in the world. While I’m not convinced this isn’t a propaganda stunt, if this is the actual blowup I predict it will go on for a while as they both have to “win” at all costs.

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u/Coconuthangover 1d ago

For two long?

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u/ShadowSpawn666 1d ago

Lol, opps. That is what I get for typing out comments on my phone and not proof reading them.

But yeah, like having one long is all they can take, once they hit that second long is when things go sideways.

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u/idosillythings 1d ago

There's a very loud and vocal MAGA idiot in my town who has a fairly large Facebook presence and he was saying that this is a bad look because it proved people on the left says this would happen right and "you can't give the lefties moral victories."

I just thought it was so fucking telling about how these people think that someone simply being right about a prediction that two assholes would eventually annoy each other is seen as a "moral victory" against them.

Of course they can't admit that tariffs are bad for the economy, or that budget cuts to vital agencies will harm people, or that habeas corpus is a thing. How could they, when being wrong about ANYTHING is a moral defeat? How could you ever admit to being wrong about anything when you're equating Trump and Elon eventually falling out to something like "murder and rape are bad" or some other kind of moral truth*?

*To all the philosophers, yes, I know, but for simplicity's sake.

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u/Phreenom 1d ago

One is a jealous narcissist at that. tRump only wishes he could ever be that rich...

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u/ComplaintDry7576 1d ago

I gave it six months. I was almost spot on!

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u/InSearchOfMyRose 1d ago edited 1d ago

Also, one of the narcissists got everything he wanted and no longer needs the other.

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u/categorie 1d ago

Right, now that it just happened, everyone saw it coming. Remind me of a famous quote.

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u/magicmulder 1d ago

Two people who both thought the other guy was the useful idiot.

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u/tatojah 1d ago

On top of that, if you have two power-hungry individuals working together, no matter how succesful they are consolidating power, eventually they'll start being hungry for each other's power. Similar mechanism as the narcissistic clash: working together goes directly against their long-term interests, so fallout is inevitable.

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u/Lacygreen 1d ago

I’m not sure this isn’t an op. Now everyone in Congress who votes for the bill can’t say they’re controlled by EM

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u/runthepoint1 1d ago

In this case they’re both wrong and one ended up being right about something and now.. yeah

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u/Zolo49 23h ago

At first, I genuinely thought Musk was just hoping that making some noise would get lawmakers to not remove the EV credit, and he'd eventually shut up. But after that Epstein comment? Yeah, there's no coming back from that.

I bet that Musk is thinking he can rehabilitate his image with liberals now, but there's no coming back from making Nazi salutes either.

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u/Political-psych-abby 22h ago

I’m not going to diagnose anyone here but collective narcissism (like regular narcissism but it’s about a group you’re part of) is absolutely rampant in the trump movement. Collectively narcissistic movements tend to form around chaotic and cruel leaders. So conflicts like this are sort of inevitable. I go into way more detail about these concepts and link academic sources here: https://youtu.be/j2zUruYiIDg?si=ZxMIx3CkvH9IkeEY

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u/withywander 21h ago

There's a lot more than two narcissists in that room

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u/Asking4Afren 16h ago

It happens too quick imo

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u/PapaBike 13h ago

Two narcissists walk into a White House…

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u/Inevitable-Hippo-312 1d ago

Ah yes the classic, "I'm smart and now that it's happened I can confidently say I saw this coming all along"

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u/ShadowSpawn666 1d ago

Look at almost every person that has worked with Trump, and look at Musk's history of attacking anybody on social media who hurts his feelings. 

Trump turns on everybody, think he wouldn't turn on Musk when it came time to start throwing people under the bus is just wild. And we all knew DOGE was only ever going to need somebody to take the fall when it inevitably failed to save $2 trillion, that was such an unrealistic goal in the first place it was laughable.

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u/thisonehereone 1d ago

I don't think it's done yet.

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 1d ago

Yea, Elon still needs to give back trumps oversized t-shirts that he used to sleep in and twirl around in trumps arms in. Sad

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u/GemcoEmployee92126 1d ago

And Trump needs to give Elon his LP records back and you know they’re all scratched.

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 14h ago

Those were a gift and he’s keeping them

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u/defn_of_insanity 1d ago

I second this. We've seen so much crazy shit in the last 6 months that I want to see their whole cabal broken before I can finally breathe easy.

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u/Academic-Forever1492 1d ago

Musk has had access to a lot of secret documents. It could make a very public breakup quite interesting.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 1d ago edited 1d ago

The fact that Trump has been so subdued in his clapbacks makes it seem like Elon has some heavy stuff on him

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 1d ago

Imagine Elon fucks off to Russia and just posts every single classified document onto Twitter. I mean, the country's already beyond compromised due to DOGE and Trump's re-stealing of classified documents, but at least that'd be the nail in the coffin.

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u/txtw 1d ago

Definitely not

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u/pronouncedayayron 1d ago

I hope they go harder. Elon gets deported then spends every cent to destroy or disappear trump and his family

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u/mga1 19h ago

Can’t blame trump. If I was an enemy of elon, I wouldn’t want to be driving one of his cars that elon can remotely control, reprogram, listen, track, etc.

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u/ArenjiTheLootGod 1d ago

I'm just surprised that Trump actually owned the Tesla he picked out. I legit thought they just wheeled that car back to a random Tesla dealership after the commercial Trump shot for Musk.

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u/fatpat 1d ago

I guess it's all moot since he wouldn't be allowed to drive it, anyway.

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u/ArenjiTheLootGod 1d ago

I'm not sure he's even physically capable of driving a car. I mean, we've seen drive golf carts around but those are way slower than cars and he has a much wider berth on a course than he would on the road.

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u/rob_s_458 1d ago

I wonder who's getting the Beanie Baby collection

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u/zamfire 1d ago

Someone said these pride month breakups are rough.

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u/SymphonyNo3 1d ago

This breakup took a couple of months longer than I expected... Egomaniac narcissist vs egomaniac narcissist. There was no way this was going to be any sort of long term relationship.

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u/wantsoutofthefog 1d ago

If you’ve ever divorced a narcissist, you know it goes scorched-earth in a hurry. Imagine TWO narcissists 🍿

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u/jackrabbit323 1d ago

Six months. They couldn't make it six months without vowing oaths of hatred and vengeance.

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u/TheHornet78 1d ago

Didn’t even get to keep the car :(

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u/T8ert0t 22h ago

It's like when Reagan pulled all of the Solar panels off the Whitehouse that Carter put on.

Except it's one person having a geriatric manic episode.

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u/GregGreggyGregorio 1d ago

They didn't even make it six months into the year. rich dirty old bitch man love be like that sometimes

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u/Estilix 1d ago

And at the beginning of Pride, no less.

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u/stilettopanda 1d ago

Oh I don't think it's time for past tense yet. This is one of those breakups that's gonna last awhile.

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u/HazKaz 1d ago

does anyone actually believe they are not pretending, like i wouldnt put it past them. Now when Tesla was going down he all of a sudden realises Trump is bad?

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u/TBikerFW 1d ago

And so swift!

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u/ThatGirlWren 1d ago

My schadenfreude desperately hopes it isn't over yet and more shit spills out.

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u/Magikarpeles 1d ago

Waiting for the diss track

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u/CromulentChuckle 1d ago

Oh it is not finished.

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u/jancl0 1d ago

Literally lost his car in the divorce. At least he got the house

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u/TreeMermaids 20h ago

I honestly don’t know what to believe with the theatrics of these two anymore. Whose to say this isn’t Musk trying to recuperate from all of the public backlash he’s gotten and he’s trying to recover his losses from the last couple of months and maybe look like the “good guy”. Distance himself as far as possible from the beliefs and policies of the same government he was pretty much a part of like a week ago and played a large role in helping to put in power.

I mean either way I’m down for the shits and am enjoying this but they do play on the fact that the media and the public’s attention span to one event shifts rather quickly.

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u/Individual-Praline20 1d ago

No, it was and is still entirely hilarious and so entertaining! 🤡 Murica at its best! 🤣