Chuck Darwin on Nostr: For a relatively paltry sum —a reported $130 million in donations and other ...
For a relatively paltry sum
—a reported $130 million in donations and other campaign expenditures, less than Jeff Bezos spent on the Washington Post
—the world’s richest man purchased a controlling stake in a broke, aging, scandal-ridden former president.
Then, with help from another of his investments, X, and with the unhinged relentlessness he brings to all of his ventures,
Musk led the unlikely rehabilitation and return of Donald Trump.
What price will Musk exact for his investment?
When it became clear on Tuesday that Trump was going to win, Musk tweeted an unsubtle hint:
a picture of himself carrying a sink into the Oval Office,
a reprise of the dad joke he made when he bought Twitter.
I wonder if Trump noticed that his own orange mug was nowhere to be seen in Musk’s vision of the Oval Office.
I sure did, and it chilled me even more than Trump’s victory itself.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/elon-musk-bought-america-donald-trump-presidency-twitter-x-tesla.html
—a reported $130 million in donations and other campaign expenditures, less than Jeff Bezos spent on the Washington Post
—the world’s richest man purchased a controlling stake in a broke, aging, scandal-ridden former president.
Then, with help from another of his investments, X, and with the unhinged relentlessness he brings to all of his ventures,
Musk led the unlikely rehabilitation and return of Donald Trump.
What price will Musk exact for his investment?
When it became clear on Tuesday that Trump was going to win, Musk tweeted an unsubtle hint:
a picture of himself carrying a sink into the Oval Office,
a reprise of the dad joke he made when he bought Twitter.
I wonder if Trump noticed that his own orange mug was nowhere to be seen in Musk’s vision of the Oval Office.
I sure did, and it chilled me even more than Trump’s victory itself.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/elon-musk-bought-america-donald-trump-presidency-twitter-x-tesla.html