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"When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all his many subsidized projects, whether its electric cars that don't drive long enough,
by schmidtleonard 2y ago
"When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all his many
subsidized projects, whether its electric cars that don't drive long enough,
driverless cars that crash, or rocket ships 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..."
-Trump, who Elon is currently giving $45 million / month for his campaign.
But hey, that's pocket change compared to the brand value he has incinerated on Twitter.
- e40 2y agoMakes you wonder what we don’t know about the relationship.
- DaoVeles 2y agoOuch! It is that age old problem. Massive wealth is unelected power, and they use the wealth to influence who we get to pick and what they do. Its not guranteed to happen but it is a sizable influence.
- decafninja 2y agoHopefully his investment in Trump has as much RoI as his investment in Twitter. Regardless of which way the election goes.
- ryan93 2y agounelected? hundreds of millions of people have given jeff bezos money
- yunwal 2y agoA solid half of those have the choice of either Bezos or the Waltons
- DaoVeles 2y agoThat isn't a vote for Bezo's to have power over others. That is merely a vote for the goods/services being sold. To most people, those two things are completely separate despite actually being two sides of the same coin.
- nick238 2y agoI thought this was hyperbole, but nope. Literally posted by the guy.
- nozzlegear 2y agoSame here, it's on his Truth Social page: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108636743295734643 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1086367432957...
- belter 2y agohttps://youtu.be/Wm2_7j6xYDo?t=1356 https://youtu.be/Wm2_7j6xYDo?t=1356
- KerrAvon 2y agoThis is Elon, who lies perpetually about everything. Absolutely no chance he ends up giving Trump $200 million.
- e40 2y agoYep, he has a history of not following through with donations.
- toephu2 2y agoElon is not giving Trump $45 million per month. Musk denied this in a recent interview with Peterson. He did say created a PAC though. [1] I know it makes Musk an easy target and easier to attack when a report comes out saying he's donating $45m to Trump but seriously people need to stop believing blindly what the media says about anyone (and Musk especially) without fact-checking first. When I first saw the article about it in WSJ I was skeptical. There were 0 sources and it was sus. "Oh WSJ said it so it must be true!" WSJ's source: "according to people familiar with the matter." [2] [1] https://time.com/6999003/elon-musk-donate-millions-trump-campaign-america-pac https://time.com/6999003/elon-musk-donate-millions-trump-cam... [2] https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/elon-musk-has-said-he-is-committing-around-45-million-a-month-to-a-new-pro-trump-super-pac-dda53823 https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/elon-musk-has-said-he...
- schmidtleonard 2y agoOoh, Trump is going to be disappointed, he's been bragging about the $45M figure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxb-eXwcsEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxb-eXwcsEI
- toephu2 2y agoYou believe everything Trump says? His staff told him that after reading business insider. They didn't even bother checking their actual accounts to see if Elon's super PAC donated $45M this month.
- schmidtleonard 2y agoSo you think he will take the news gracefully that he isn't getting $45M after all? LOL.
- techostritch 2y agoSo wait, he created a PAC and donated $45 million dollars to the PAC and the pac is meant to support Trump right?