Full Title: Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘very serious consequences’ if he funds Democratic candidates
President Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill.
“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.
I was coming in to post that. Clearly it is illegal to threaten someone for their political preferences. OTOH if Trump cancels Musk’s government contracts over this-well, can two wrongs make a right just this once?
FWIW, I predict that they will be back together within a week or so. I’m not saying it was contrived. Trump is too dumb for that, but that they will decide they need each other too much.
On Friday, CNN reported, “President Donald Trump has asked aides and advisers if they believe Elon Musk’s behavior over the past 48 hours could be related to his alleged drug use, privately seeking to understand the tech billionaire’s broadsides against him while signaling publicly he doesn’t care, a source familiar with the conversations told CNN.”
I’m amused that it’s only now occurring to Trump that Musk’s behavior is influenced by drug use. I thought everyone knew that.
He’s acting exactly like people I know who are either on crystal meth or too much speed of some kind. A manic break wouldn’t surprise me either but that’s often caused by speed