https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5071134-maggie-haberman-donald-trump-elon-musk/
The New York Times's Maggie Haberman said President-elect Trump is complaining that tech billionaire Elon Musk is "around a lot."
"Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot," Haberman said on Monday's episode of the "On with Kara Swisher" podcast, as highlighted by Mediaite.
"Privately, Musk — Jonathan Swan and I reported recently with Ryan Mac that Musk has been staying at this cottage at Mar-a-Lago," she added.
He's living in DDR's backyard
"So, he really parked himself in Trump's face," Haberman said on the podcast. "But what that looks like, Kara, when Trump becomes president, I don't know."
In November, Trump said the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), which aims to "slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures" and restructure federal agencies, would be headed up by Musk and former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
DOGE would "provide advice and guidance from outside of government" and work alongside the White House Office of Management and Budget, the president-elect said.
"It will become, potentially, 'The Manhattan Project' of our time," Trump added. "Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of 'DOGE' for a very long time."
Haberman told Swisher she doesn't believe Musk "will move into the Lincoln Bedroom" of the White House, "but I do think that at the moment — and again we'll see what this looks like — I think he's going to try to have as much proximity to Trump as possible."
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Anonymous sources are saying
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Not even, Haberman gets paid to follow Trump around and write down what he says, and historically he's demonstrated that he has no problem talking shit to the journos on his beat.
Her book probably contains a surplus of pearl clutching
, but I'm still going to read it at some point because it's probably pretty entertaining.
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Haberman is like a Trump confidant no? He tells her everything
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Four years of this shit again
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You're not excited to wake up every day wondering which nation Daddy might have started a war with overnight while he tweeting on the can???
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I'm most excited for season 2 of this shit.
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He didn't start any wars last term tho?
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Yeah, fricking disappointment.
Fricking loser.
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He started the war on whamen
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He's gonna be Truthing on the can
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Gay reddit comments like these is why Trump won
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Can't wait to hear about Trump taking two scoops or dumping fish food in disrespectfully
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the fish food was great especially because he was copying the jap
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Stop struggling, lie back and accept the hard throbbing truth inside you.
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It's a fricking DC farmer posting a fricking lazy comment after not reading anything!!!! Kill him!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It doesn't say she witnessed the comments herself and it doesn't say who he made the comments to.
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deleting my comment in shame
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Not orange enough.
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On the one hand, Elon was probably the singlemost important person in getting Trump elected aside from the cute twink who shot him in July, so Trump does kind of owe him.
On the other hand, Elon is a cute twink now and I want him to suffer.
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Elon got him elected but he doesn't need Elon to rule. He has ~30% of the country permanently in his base and he doesn't need re-election anymore. What does he really need Musk for if not peepee sucking?
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Money. Musk has shitloads of it and DDR does not.
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For what? A re-election campaign? How much cash do you think Elon actually has?
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to find opposition campaigns to any politician who opposes him.
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To settle his massive debts to various people you don't want to be in debt to. And Elon has shittons of cash, he literally bought Twitter out of pocket. And Trump's election made him even more obscenely rich.
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Plus Elon is now pretty toxic with his Jeetmaxxing plan, which DDR I'm sure doesn't object to since he gets all his info from other rich guys at Mar A Lago, but if it's a bad call Trump would have no problem axing H1-Bs to stay popular
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I think it's still way too early to tell if the H1-B drama has spilled out from the terminally online crowd. It's possible that it moves the needle in his general base but I could see it not having much effect on the Fox viewing boomer demographic.
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Everyone in tech knows about it and hates it. Techcels do have plenty of experience hands on with H1-B "talent"
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He still needs the party to do well in the midterms if he's going to be able to continue a legislative agenda in the second half of his term.
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Yeah but DDR's primary motivation this time around was having a get out of jail free card for all his court cases. I'm not convinced he's particularly concerned about the midterms or 2028 at this point.
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Nah, trump doesn't have much of a policy preference. He just wants the attention
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he's also 90 and gets tired easily doesn't need musk bothering him about h1b
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also trump doesn't care about loyalty
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It's called negging, it's part of romantic courtship. You incels wouldn't understand
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Musk handing Trump a folded note at lunch that reads
"Do you like me yes/no"
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Here comes four more years of "anonymous sources say…"
I do hope this is true though because Elon is a strag
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"Leader of the free world and most powerful man on the planet" or highschool kids?
Could also be a sitcom, which would be very fitting for Trump. Anyways, arent you proud of who you simped for now, rightoids?
Poking fun aside, this is probably a result of the pushback from his supporters and butt-kissers daddy got for backing Musk on the sexy Indian dude question. Tough guy image or not, trump is desperately concerned with his image and Musk really really damaged him there, and damaged him where it hurts most for daddy's image. And I dont think Trump is one to let that kind of thing slide, I wouldnt be surprised if the tard bureau doesnt go anywhere now. Especially since Musk has also lost almost all standing among rightoids, so there is little benefit for Trump in backing him further, beyond sunk cost, so he will try to extricate himself of Musk and/or sideline him.
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I really don't think he's gonna make it. He served his purpose helping drive numbers for the election but he's really obnoxious and I think eventually DDR is going to decide that he's either too annoying or a liability and say the line.
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Oh 100%, the funniest part of this presidency is going to be their falling out. And I bet it happens within the next few months
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How Elon has time?
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He brought his g*mer laptop with so he can grind on his Diablo character and kiss Trump's butt at the same time
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He is staying over at trump's in the bedroom for and games and shitposts all day, only to show up for lunch
Mfw musk is literally a trust fund teenager
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Raising a kid is a 9-5 job (8 hours). He has 12 kids. He's not raising any of them, which means he saved 12 * 8 = 96 hours per day. That's a lot of free time!
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He's not real
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He is AL?
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Yes
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If you want a peak Trump presidency you should want this fallout to occur. Musk wants Trump to waste his time doing coprerate bootlicking that will make him richer. With Musk out of the way we'd actually get the meme wars this place has dreamed of (plz take Greenland it would be so funny
)
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What did he mean by this?
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
Snapshots:
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5071134-maggie-haberman-donald-trump-elon-musk/:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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This is the same anonymous source that said his wife was going to run away from her miserable marriage?
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President Musk and vice-vice-president chump. Enjoy what you voted for MAGAts, I can't wait for our new oligarchy to get us into our own Ukraine war with Mexico or Greenland.
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