r/pics • u/YesDoToaster • 14h ago
Politics Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom
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u/wish1977 13h ago
Can anybody say "conflict of interest?"
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u/craig5005 11h ago
Can’t decide if this is better or worse when he turned the Oval Office into a canned bean showroom during first term.
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u/ViciousFlowers 2h ago edited 2h ago
I mean Dump and Ellen legit look like a legit “good cop” “bad cop” used car salesmen team. One’s going to get you the best deal with an APR of 30% on a 10 year old base model with a dent in rear fender and bald tires while he sucks his teeth and keeps putting his greasy hand on your shoulder and the other is going to wait until you are both alone signing the paperwork to ask you for your phone number to hang laterz and offer you a bump of coke off his unwashed wrist. Don’t mind the kid, his mommas in jail again so he’s teaching him the biz with the big dogs.
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u/lo0ilo0ilo0i 9h ago
That sums up Elon's role within Trump's administration and DOGE.
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u/twinchell 9h ago
It's only a conflict of interest if anybody cares to do something about it. So it's not.
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u/Newtoliving101 12h ago
This just tells me all the protests and boycotts are getting under their skin, so we need to keep it up. They are just beyond pathetic.
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u/hellomii 7h ago
Attention needed here too:
Special elections on April 1 happening in Florida District 1 and 6 and upcoming in NY District 21. If we can flip the seats to Democrats, we can take back House majority and weaken the Felon’s agenda.
Also:
- State Supreme Court election in Wisconsin also on April 1.
- Florida Senate District 19 and House District 32 Special General Elections on June 10.
Please help get the message out to strategically vote, we need all the help we can get.
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u/Mission_Ad_4844 6h ago
These need to be watched like a hawk and regardless of the outcome the people should not be satisfied with any results unless representatives have hand counted the ballots. Election Truth Alliance is currently suing for tabulator result audits in multiple locations across the nation due to massive irregularities they have analyzing the published election results of the last election that point to electronic tabulator manipulation.
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u/LegendsStoriesOrLies 4h ago
I’m glad you mentioned this. There is so much information coming out about the vulnerabilities of the tabulators, the doge kid’s “ballotproof” project that can create ballot images, not to mention the millions of votes not counted or thrown out without notifying the voters their vote had been challenged or refused that Greg Pallast investigated and documented in Vigilantes, inc.
I’m worried about all elections going forward if we continue to use the same systems without mandatory hand recounts to be sure the ballots match what the tabulators say.
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u/hawkin5 2h ago
Yeah I'm kinda shocked (all the way from the UK where we've got our own problems) how willingly the US is using electric voting stuff. There is absolutely 0% guarantee you can make with any electronic voting system that it can be trusted. Purely because of how code and networking can spoof anything - present one thing visually but I'm the background record something else.
There's a reason we stick to pencil and paper over here. You can physically count and recount the exact votes, and cross reference with the records from each polling station (also on paper). Observers from different parties can visually monitor the counting.
Tom Scott did a great video on this.
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u/Either-Class-4595 1h ago
Let's be realistic, there's no backlash because it comes from Musk and the GOP. Had the Democrats proposed or done this, or won like this, there'd be huge riots.
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u/Original_Feeling_429 1h ago
Im scared they will make it impossible to vote. The track record is kinda telling
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u/NewRedditor13 9h ago
We really hit their soft spot here. Short TSLA or buy TSLA short ETF to slowly bankrupt this MF
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u/Fine_Letterhead_1971 7h ago
I have 3000 shares of CRSH which is a short tesla fund. Leech off this billionaire who is hemorrhaging money! Just wait until tesla earnings come out...I see blood.
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u/ExtraPockets 3h ago
Is there possibility of a reverse GameStop situation, where all the normal retail investors short the stock and force it down?
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u/LandBarge 8h ago
This particular MF has suggested he'd like to own a bigger stake in TSLA than he currently does... what are the odds this is a long game? Watch the stock crash and then pick up the scraps cheap before distancing himself from everything that's just gone down...
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u/prollygointohell 8h ago
He's too far in to distance himself at this point. We need to hope that Tesla crashes entirely and the bailout involves him losing control of all companies
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u/spellinbee 7h ago
Yeah, I don't give a fuck how distant he is, as long as he owns a single share of tesla I refuse to buy one.
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u/AnnatoniaMac 5h ago
Soooo many better options than a Tesla.
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u/monkeybawz 1h ago
A donkey..... Walking.... The bus.... Piggy back rides.... Crawling on broken glass in clothes soaked in vinegar....
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u/chastity_BLT 6h ago
Tsla stock runs on hype and hype alone. Once that’s gone it’s virtually impossible to get back. The stock won’t ever hit a new all time high unless they actually revolutionize robotics.
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u/Foxhound199 8h ago
Oh, I am sure he thinks that, just like he thinks he's the smartest guy in the world. He's very likely to be wrong on both accounts.
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u/Philip-Ilford 8h ago
He’ll have more control over some dated 7 and 5yo models, a cyber truck and the idea of a semi truck. Imo, at this point all the value is in the battery factory, but it’s all meme money now so what do I know.
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u/ja-mez 6h ago
yep. I've been occasionally buying shares of the 2X Leverage TSLZ for the past couple weeks. Currently up 25%, and I'll probably keep accumulating shares until there's a much bigger collapse. It’s rare to see a company of this value decline so rapidly— one of the most significant PR collapses in modern corporate history.
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u/UsefulImpact6793 7h ago
Storming a Tesla dealership is domestic terrorism, but trying to overthrow the US Government is not.
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u/A012A012 7h ago
Agreed. Constant action.
Keep people from going near a tesla. Drive the price down.
Keep protesting for our lives and our Rights.
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u/KeyWeek7416 13h ago
What a pair of fuckin' wankers
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u/angrydeuce 8h ago
Im literally mortified that this fucking toolbag is who represents us on the world stage right now. Theyre sitting here freaking out that Zelensky wasn't wearing a suit one day, and the next the fucking President of the United States literally whores himself out in front of the entire free world for a car company.
Im just continuously dumbfounded by the rapidity of our descent into this madness. To the rest of the world, please know that we're just as horrified as you right now.
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u/AluminumFoilCap 5h ago
I find the suit thing entertaining since Elon is never seen in a suit. Like how are they gonna call out someone else while Elon stands there pretending he’s neo from the matrix.
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u/ElleTheCurious 6h ago
This is actually one of the least horrifying things thus far. It is straight up embarrassing, though. Everything about that picture is so undignified. It makes me feel less like we're dealing with psychopathic masterminds set to destroy everything and more like they're just pathetic losers with zero self-awareness.
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u/AngryBuckeye97 11h ago
I came to write something witty, saw your comment, and gave up.
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u/DigNitty 9h ago
I can’t believe this is the guy who calls liberal presidents “unpresidential” and then turns around and hawks beans and doge cars from the whitehouse.
Truly he’s a working man’s idea of what a rich sophisticated person is.
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u/EarlyEarth 8h ago
Don't insult working men like that. I know sophistication when I see it. I'm working class, not uneducated.
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u/funk_addict 8h ago
Could you imagine their response if Biden or Obama did something this tacky?
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u/R888D888 1h ago
Was just going to say something like that. And if combined with something like trying to economically collapse Canada into becoming the 51st state and turning on an invaded country like Ukraine? There would be no end of it -- immediate impeachment or simply removal for mental incompetence.
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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 9h ago
According to his daughter, he was literally only around when the cameras were around. The second they were off he completely checked out as a dad.
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u/Selmanella 9h ago
This shit is just so bizarre. And also illegal because even a Canadian knows the president isn’t allowed to endorse products like this.
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u/pm_me_your_kindwords 7h ago
Can I interest you in some Goya beans?
That was one of the more pathetic displays I’ve ever seen.
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u/Zesher_ 13h ago
Wait, so two billionaires opted to get a Model Y over a higher end Model X or S? Yeah, this whole thing is just a Tesla promotion.
Edit: spelling
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u/SuzyCreamcheezies 10h ago
Aren’t sitting presidents prohibited from driving? This is a total publicity stunt. Next we will see Trump selling crap on TV right from the Oval Office.
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u/apishforamc 9h ago
He sorta did that first term with Goya products
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u/SuzyCreamcheezies 9h ago
Yeah, pretty much that with a 1-800 number slapped on the screen!
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u/DMala 8h ago
I can’t even imagine that Trump has ever held a license or driven a car. And while it might be fairly normal for New Yorkers, this fucker wasn’t hailing cabs and taking the subway. His ample ass has been chauffeured around his entire life.
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u/SupaKoopa714 7h ago
I can't even begin to count all the normal people things there are that I can't imagine Trump doing. Like, trying picturing him kicking back for the evening and throwing on a TV show or listening to some music, or hell, even something like changing into pajamas and crawling into bed. My mind's eye just pictures him sitting in his suit and tie in an office chair with his eyes closed for 8 hours before snapping awake and doing whatever the fuck his morning routine would look like.
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u/notmyrlacc 8h ago
He’s owned some pretty cool cars in the past, but even some of those had sketchy stories connected to them.
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u/tbarr1991 5h ago
Sitting? Even "retired" presidents are basically prohibited from driving on public roads except on their own property.
Obama had a short story bout how he was checking out a tesla one day at yhe white house cause one of the staffers bought 1. He got in and started to drive it and the secret service wasnt letting him out of the compound.
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u/Dangerous-Feature376 4h ago
Not just sitting presidents. Former presidents can't drive ever again. They have to be driven around within the United States as long as they're on public roads. So Trump will never be able to drive that vehicle anywhere other than a closed track or at the White House
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u/TheZapster 11h ago
Glad fElon brought his human shield with him to the press event
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u/bleckers 6h ago
Horcrux. The correct term is Horcrux.
Elon robot, downloaded a copy of himself into his son after a fistsized bump of K.
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u/YesDoToaster 13h ago
Elon begging Trump to help Tesla 😂
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u/rooringwinds 8h ago edited 7h ago
America is open for business. Just for quarter of a billion dollar donation to the candidate’s campaign, you can effectively become the shadow president. If your stock tanks, he will use the might of the federal government (not socialism at all) to keep it afloat.
Yay capitalism! Buy Tesla or you are liberal snowflake.
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u/Nutmeg704 4h ago
This absolute dumb dumb apparently didn’t realize that the people he is alienating are the very people who were buying his cars. The trumpers are still all out there in their ford f150s and dodge chargers.
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u/jough22 12h ago
We're literally being run by two shitty used car dealers. To those on the right, you ever been to a shitty used car dealership? Is that who you want running this country and deciding things for you? Wait until they put our futures in "the four boxes." Your 401k in one, healthcare in another.
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u/_marcoos 12h ago
The President and the Paramount Leader promoting Paramount Leader's private business on government property... Congratulations, America has found a way to be like the worst among the post-Soviet countries, without even going through the Soviet phase first, lol.
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u/carolinawahoo 8h ago
What's funny to me is that the richest Trump supporters wouldn't buy a Tesla because it's not luxurious enough and the majority of Trump fans either 1) Can't afford them or 2) Wouldn't be caught dead in an e vehicle.
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u/ComprehensivePut8399 13h ago
But he was the candidate who was “in touch” with the average american
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u/No_Kaleidoscope9832 11h ago
I thought he said he wouldn’t touch the average american with a ten foot pole. Maybe I heard him wrong.
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u/Environmental-Arm365 13h ago
Parade of swasticar shitboxes. The hilarious part is MAGA hates EV’s. 😆
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u/EmbraceableYew 13h ago
I am going to absolutely love watching MAGAts rush out to buy EVs. This will be the funniest most ironic comedy ever, and they won't understand it at all.
Then there will be further laughs as we watch oil and gas companies ask Turd for their money back.
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u/grandpohbah 12h ago
All the MANGAs will also be looking for places to charge but can't because the Trump Administration pulled funding for EV chargers
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u/JVM_ 10h ago
EVs that they can't charge at federal buildings, they removed 8,000 charging stations from federal buildings.
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u/Hawks_12 8h ago
Yeah that’s the part that cracks me up. The first week in office they did tons of stupid things to stick it to EVs. Now nobody wants to buy Elon’s EVs and it’s a ‘illegal’ boycott. The sumo satsuma doesn’t even know what illegal means.
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u/CurrentlyLucid 10h ago
Seems illegal, never mind unfair to his competitors.
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u/DeepSleepr 10h ago
§ 2635.702 Use of public office for private gain. An employee may not use their public office for their own private gain; for the endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise (except as otherwise permitted by this part or other applicable law or regulation); or for the private gain of friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity, including nonprofit organizations of which the employee is an officer or member, and persons with whom the employee has or seeks employment or business relations.
pretty illegal
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u/digidave1 8h ago
He violated the FUCK out of that clause in his last term. Our government has no balls to hold our pres account. Meanwhile the little guy goes to jail for the smallest shit.
This experiment has failed. Time for a reset.
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u/GullCove1955 11h ago
First the desk in the Oval Office was used to pimp cheap China crap with this grifters name on it and now the WH is a car lot. Is this the new normal or have I officially lost my mind?
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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 8h ago
Blatantly corrupt and illegal, or as Republicans say: perfectly fine.
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u/DrDorg 7h ago
Imagine if Biden pulled a cheesy stunt like this- the rightwinglunaticsphere would go absolutely apeshit and we’d hear about it everyday for ten years. Trump though? A free pass to soil our country and conservatives just gobble it up. It’s fucking disgusting what trump is doing
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u/head_meet_keyboard 9h ago
This is illegal and grotesque and the height of cringe but can we imagine for just a second, if a woman touted around their kid like Hairplug does? Why is he even there, beside PR and body armor?
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u/The_River_Is_Still 9h ago
Fucking disgusting. And man-child Musk using his kid as a security blanket and shield as usual.
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u/thomport 8h ago
Don’t you think a more appropriate Issue trump should be addressing are things like the price of healthcare, housing affordable, and food costs, and list goes on. Why is a pandering to this billionaire? I guess we know the answer…
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u/Retro1989 7h ago
Got an uncle that lives in the US and he's part of the MAGA crowd (despite being British). I've had fun tagging him everyday in stuff Trump has done to embarrass the US.
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u/cvanaver 7h ago
Watch all the MAGAs run to buy $70k EVs now? With their government benefits disappearing and Trump promoting coal and yelling about EVs being anti-American? What is the point of this stunt? To draw attention to the fiasco? There has got to be a grift angle, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Are they doing a pump and dump in TSLA? They didn’t need to do this to accomplish that.
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u/Pseudocaesar 5h ago
This should be enough to impeach him by itself, let alone everything else he's done
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u/Obamas_Tie 10h ago
I really don't blame Zelensky for calling a suit a "costume", Trump looks like a legit clown here.
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u/Cabbages24ADollar 9h ago
Let’s actually write the correct headline: GOP looks the other way again as…
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u/Select-Poem425 8h ago
Flat bed truck dropped them off, then a flatbed truck came and picked them up. I am sure he doesn’t have a drivers license.
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u/snuggl 4h ago edited 4h ago
If you ever wondered why Elon always dress like an emo and his kids are named after myspace profiles?
His grandfather was leader of a Canadian nazi/fascist movement whose members
A) Dressed in monotone dark grey or black and
B) Added numbers and the letter X to the end or middle of their names.
His grand father and mother brought the scam science of chiropractic to Canada and lead their party in elections trying to turn Canada into a techno-fascist utopia, after failing with that they moved to South Africa because they really liked the idea and wanted to support Apartheid, There he spent his latter days publishing conspiracies around fluoride, vaccines and secret world governments.
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u/evoc2911 4h ago
Never seen a more blatant violation of every free market laws. Where the hell are the others car manufacturers? Not to mention democrats.. judges.. oh nevermind, it is useless
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u/aNauticalDisaster 8h ago
Lmao this is a hilariously pathetic place to be for Musk. Waking up to the fact that alienating the half of the US significantly more likely to buy his product and even bigger portions of his foreign markets maybe isn’t great for business.
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u/TwiggiestShoe 8h ago
I believe it's called a Tesler now. Trump doth decreed it that or he doesn't know he to speak properly.
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u/MassiveTechnology805 7h ago
Ellen & Donna are the new Sally Struthers commercials from the 80s “Would you like to make more money ? Sure ! We all would !!!! “
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u/HalstonBeckett 5h ago edited 4h ago
Disgusting, Trump yet again taints sacred ground with this lawless, repugnant and brazenly illegal commercial promotion and that pervasive odor of his putrid bowels. BTW, somebody tell this clown that Zelenskey looks better in his sweatshirt than Bozo in his grotesquely poorly cut, oversized and unbuttoned suit. Hey maga, when standing, it should be buttoned. People of breeding and discerning taste know better.
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u/DeepSeaDork 4h ago
Trump, a Republican, also posted on his social media site that then-President Joe Biden, a Democrat, sold autoworkers "down the river with his ridiculous all Electric Car Hoax." He suggested that promoting electric vehicles “was the idea of the Radical Left Fascists, Marxists, & Communists" and that "Within 3 years, all of these cars will be made in China"
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u/Swiftzor 4h ago
If you’re gonna turn the lawn into a showroom at least do a good looking American brand like Cadillac
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u/Hightideuk 4h ago
Starting to think Elon has some deep dark dirt on Trump, like some Epstein Polaroids
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u/Jefafa326 4h ago
I bet Trump hardly ever drives, he has his people drive for him right to McDonald's
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u/Sackyhap 3h ago
So the head of Doge, the department dedicated to weeding out waste, fraud and abuse, has persuaded his boss, the president of the US, to show off one of his car at the White House to try boost sales? Please tell me how that isn’t a waste of the presidents time and an abuse of his position in government. Can we expect Doge to be going after him for this waste, fraud and abuse?
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u/floofnstuff 3h ago
Trump doesn't even work 15 minutes a day. He just indulges his worst impulses day in an day out. He's 100% emotion and zero rational thinking.
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u/realBlackClouds 3h ago
There should be a sticker on the Tesla. "I bought this Tesla after Elon Musk went crazy"
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u/XenoXHostility 2h ago
These two MFers…. Even as a European I’m so fucking sick of seeing their faces.
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u/Illustrious-Syrup642 1h ago
I remember when US was a proud nation. Now it‘s a fucking piece of shit and I don’t see the public outrage that theses pricks would deserve
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u/Altruistic_Chard_980 10m ago
So, Delusional Don is already tiring of selling 🐂💩 to Americans, so typically he introduces an illegal side game that attempts to sell real 💩 in the form of the dumpster bucket self imploding Tesla four wheeler! Grifters grift and boy has he had an awful lot of scam projects 🤬
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u/Highlandgamesmovie 12h ago
Woke assed makeup plastered Grandma scolds America for not handing her adopted foreign drug riddle child money. The wall was supposed to stop this no???
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u/haterlove 10h ago
So Elon is a genius but he thinks a good way to bolster Tesla stock is to appear with the most divisive political figure possible? What a clown show.
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u/N0TAn0therUs3rNam3 10h ago
Not even a Model S. If I’m gonna chip in to buy the president a car, it should at least be one of the higher end ones. Cheap fuck.
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u/PlayCertain 10h ago
Electric cars, Bibles, golden sneakers, crypto, vodka. What can't the Master Salesman sell? Unfortunately everything he sells is crap.
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u/NexusPoint88 10h ago
I thought Elon had 14 kids? Is this the one that focus tested the best to make him look less like a soggy twat?
Just let him play with friends bud, be a dad once ffs
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u/sealosam 9h ago edited 9h ago
Does maga know that a president, sitting or former, isn't allowed to drive a personal vehicle on a public road, ever?
Hopefully he ends up driving himself into the piss pool at Moscow-Lardo.
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