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Dennis Donovan

(27,492 posts)
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:29 PM Sunday

Bloomberg: Trump Says Talk That He's Ceded Presidency to Musk Is a 'Hoax'

Bloomberg - (archived: https://archive.ph/cOn9A ) Trump Says Talk That He’s Ceded Presidency to Musk Is a ‘Hoax’

-President-elect addresses billionaire ally’s power in speech

-Musk’s influence on display in congressional budget wrangling


By Josh Wingrove and Gregory Korte
December 22, 2024 at 2:52 PM EST

Donald Trump said Sunday that he will be president of the US — not Elon Musk.

“No, he’s not taking the presidency,” Trump told a conservative audience in Phoenix, addressing growing complaints about the outsized role the Tesla boss has already had in his incoming administration.

“You know, they’re on a new kick,” he said. “All the different hoaxes. The new one is that President Trump has ceded the presidency to Elon Musk. No, no, that’s not happening.”

That Trump would be compelled to address Musk’s power is testimony to the unusual influence that the world’s richest man has displayed in a second Trump presidency that won’t begin for another month.

Trump has tapped Musk to head a cost-cutting and deregulation effort he calls the Department of Government Efficiency. It’s not an official department, but rather a small group of people working from the Washington offices of Musk’s SpaceX and organized around an account on Musk’s social media platform, X.

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This is really fucking with Trump's head!
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dpibel

(3,439 posts)
10. Too clever by half. Or more.
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 07:14 PM
Sunday

I know I'm the proverbial slow boat and all, but the best sense I can make of this cryptic offering is that it's a swing and a mighty, mighty miss.

But I'm only guessing at what you mean.

I'm thinking that you are referring to the long allegedly from Trump social media post that went around the other day.

But what this OP has to do with that is way beyond my pay grade.

If anything, I'd say that the fact Trump is saying this out loud in public (which is what the OP is about) lends credence to the idea that he'd post the same sentiment on social media.

At any rate, I realize that the sarcasm tag is the universal out. But, to me, your sarcasm (although I really think you mean irony) is so deep that it's unfathomable. At least to the lesser minds.

Omnipresent

(6,486 posts)
5. It is weird that trump ceded his presidency to musk, but...
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:35 PM
Sunday

Trump has done far more weirder things in his last presidency!

keithbvadu2

(40,531 posts)
9. Even though Musk was not natural born, the optics of the meme is aggravating Trumpworld.
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:44 PM
Sunday

Even though Musk was not natural born, the optics of the meme is aggravating Trumpworld.

Make it a conspiracy theory like the right-wing meme that 'Obama was the real president' for Biden's term.

Trump denying it put it out front.

There is a tale of LBJ using outlandish claims to make his opponent deny them.

https://barrypopik.com/blog/i_know_its_not_true_but_lets_make_the_sonafabitch_deny_it_a_loaded_politica

maxsolomon

(35,360 posts)
11. He doesn't know what a 'hoax' is
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 03:02 PM
Monday

It's not trolling, which is what Dems saying MFer is controlled by Musk is.

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