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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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[–] rodneyck@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 (1 children)

hold on. which one is which?

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 4 points 6 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.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

They were nothing more than business partners, in other words tools. They used each other. Musk was the richest man on the planet and somehow Americans thought that was a coincidence. Musk wanted to usher in an era of austerity to line his own pockets, which he got in return for funding and pushing for trumps election. Election's over, Trump taxes musk he fucks off.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 161 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago
[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 96 points 1 week ago (5 children)

LOL yes let's impeach him again. We are stuck with this Orange Turd. Republicans have given us this turd and we can't flush him for 4 years.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

For the impeachment itself, assuming the Democrats all vote for it, Musk only needs to buy 9 republicans.

For the trial, he needs to get 20 republicans for the two thirds. It's not going to be cheap, but it sounds doable.

The problem is that leaves Vance in charge, and a focused autocrat is not an upgrade.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Bold of you to assume we can get rid of him democratically.

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[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You just gotta flush really hard. Say, approximately, 2,500ft/sec.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LOL yes let’s impeach him again

Why just once? Let's impeach him two more times.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I hate to be a Debby Downer, but the headline is a bit sensationalist. This is how Elon "called for Donald Trump to be impeached":

That's it. He wrote "Yes".

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't think that's sensationalist at all. It's a pretty direct and clear call for impeachment.

But I'd rather talk about that original Tweet. Obviously, Trump being impeached (and convicted by the Senate) would result in Vance replacing him; that's how it works. But the choice to specifically highlight the Vance part of it implies not just a desire for Trump to be gone, but for Vance specifically to be in. Which is wild. I can't imagine any human on earth actually being pro-Vance. There's the sane people, who oppose the entire administration, and there's the Magats who are rabidly pro-Trump. Who exactly supports Trump's diet lacky?

[–] spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vance represents the tech bro "libertatian" wing with Thiel and those ghouls. Musk fits right in.

[–] Ton@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Vance was placed there with the objective to replace Trump eventually. These guys don't need Trump any more, but like the industrials underestimated Hitler when they put him into power, Thiel and co are probably underestimating Trump's shrewdness. He will burn everything down before he'll be put out of power.

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[–] ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

But that doesn't bring in the clicks. And really, that's all we care about, right?

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[–] mcv@lemm.ee 66 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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 16 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everyone that works with Trump always regrets it eventually. Everyone.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Oh, but he won't do that to me ."

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... 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 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fortunately, America has an affinity for reality TV, and so they're distracted from whatever else this is a distraction for. I just have a part of me that can't believe what's happening.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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

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[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Musk wants his money back! I’d vote to let him return his purchase in this case.

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[–] necrobius@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My theory is they want it to impact Tesla stock negatively, then magically over the weekend or at some point, they kiss and make up and the EV credit gets added back into the bill and they profit massively from buying the dip.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] 17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How long before trump declares that Elon isn’t hot anymore?

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] 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.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Can't wait to hear the Alex Jones mental gymnastics lol

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

Elon could easily buy enough of the Senate to have Individual 1 removed at long last.

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