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President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

And yet Musk decides who gets fired and that's not changing.

Typical Trump doubletalk. He's lying to his own cabinet.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh no, is the billionaire bromance in trouble??

[–] proper@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago

unfortunately no, they just want to shield him from lawsuits.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago

Everyone should sign up for truth and dump X. That will split them faster then anything.

[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But he also said he wanted cuts, and that Musk would remain a power center: “If they can cut, it’s better. And if they don’t cut, then Elon will do the cutting.”

Its not time for celebration. This is just to take heat off Elon. Now the media will be able to spread the blame around or excuse it. "People inside the department know how best to make cuts. Everything is normal".

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

He's stirring up conflict among his subordinates in order to keep the media hypnotized.

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He just needs to kick his ass back to South Africa

[–] 0000011110110111i@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America took him in, so he’s all yours. S Africa don’t want colonisers back. Good luck.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We wants to colonize Mars, so America could put him on one of those SpaceX rockets and point it that way...

[–] Dimmer@leminal.space 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He will end up rest in pieces under Gulf of Mexico.

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Now that's an idea I can get behind.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So what about the thousands of people he already fired without input from the cabinet?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

If fElon is the woman being hysterical...

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

LOL. I wonder how much of this is the fact that fElon is even more polarizing than Bronzo the Clown himself, and dragging down the polling of this maladministration, or if it's because Bronzo is jealous of all the attention fElon is getting.