Ant it really pissed him off when President Musk admitted a mistake. You could practically see the daggers shooting out of his eyes! ‘Sad! Weak!’
Yes, Elon was violating one of Donald’s most sacred bedrock principles. (If and when Donald DOES expel Elon, that might well be one of his “reasons.”)
I’m waiting for when donald says “you’re fired” and musk replies, “No, you’re fired.”.
Depending on who else is waiting behind the curtains to make it stick, musk might well win that one.
So, even though it wasn’t condoms so Gazans can make bombs it’s still ‘’‘waste, fraud, and abuse’‘’ and sending condoms to stop the spread of AIDS is also ‘’‘waste, fraud, and abuse’‘’?
It’s not directly benefiting Americans – particularly Trump’s patrons – and, thus, “wasteful.”
And, in the end, AIDS is caused by recreational drug use (particularly amyl nitrite AKA “poppers”), and lifestyle stressors so how are condoms gonna stop that?
‘Stupid libs and there imaginary virises, am I write!’
i only caught a bit of the musk/trump thing? yest… bloomberg (thankfully muted) was on in the elevator. the bit i saw had musk pontificating, and trump looking at a wee kid like he had never seen one before. trump looked at the kid, then tilted his head and looked very puzzled.
what was that??!!
That was part of it. And that 5 seconds was not nearly the most weird thing elmo, trump, or the kid did.
Said kid is four years old.
I have grandchildren aged 4, 6, and 8.
4 is not 6 or 8.
This was, in a good way, exceptional for 4:
I’m posting this because, eight or ten years from now, Lil X will be looking through a whole bunch of criticisms on the Wayback Machine. Kid, everyone criticizing your younger self is just plain wrong. That Trump guy may have been confused, but you were just as you should be.
Supposedly the kid said to Trump ‘you’re not the President, you need to go away’ (and more):
Out of the mouths of babes!
Every image I see from that 11 February Oval Office press event leads me to think that Donald HAS lost something.
Some have speculated that he called the event in response to the Time Magazine cover of Elon behind the Resolute Desk. Donald, the theory goes, wanted to be there behind that desk himself and have Elon standing there like a mere staff member. Donald would be perceived by all as Large and In Charge!
But of course that was not the impression made on…anyone, so far as I can see from all the reactions. It was Elon holding forth on HIS plans and HIS decisions, while Donald just sat there looking sour—and irrelevant. (The addition of the kid didn’t really change that dynamic.)
I guess it’s subjective. But the one thing Donald has been known for is his ability to create an image and a story that puts himself at the center; that makes him the Powerful One.
And with this Oval Office event, he just utterly failed to do that. He ended up looking weaker, not stronger. He ended up making the Time Magazine cover look even more accurate than it had on the day it was issued.
“We were the richest relatively – think of this – from 1870 to 1913. That was our richest. Because we collected tariffs … we had so much wealth. Of course, now we give it away to transgender … everybody gets a transgender operation.”
“We are also going to Ft Knox. I’m going to go with Elon. Because we want to see if the gold is still there. Wouldn’t that be terrible? … we open the door, we’ll say, ‘There’s nothing here! They stole this too!’”
“What do we like better – Crooked Joe or Sleepy Joe? Ready? Crooked Joe! Sleepy Joe!”
“Rachel Maddow, what does she have? She took a sabbatical. They paid her a lot of money. She gets no ratings. I should go against her in the ratings”
I just read a Feb. 15 Nicholas Kristoff column that inadvertently gives a good summary of the problem with thinking Trump is confused. As authoritarian leaders go, DJT is normie.
Lack of confusion of course does not mean invincible:
Quoting Trump:
Worst Oprah show ever.
Some got new keys; some got new locks.
Reporter: Do you still think Zelenskyy is a dictator?
Trump: Umm did I say that? I can’t believe I said that.
Reporter: Less than 1% of all fentanyl that comes into the U.S. Is apprehended at the Canadian border. So why use fentanyl as a reason?
Trump: They should be apprehending much more. They’re only apprehending 1%.
Reporter: Veterans make up 30% of the federal workforce? Are you tracking how many veterans have been fired so far?
Trump: Yes we are. We take good care of our veterans
Reporter: Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida today after being released from custody in Romania. They are accused rapists, human traffickers… Did your administration pressure the Romanian government to release them?
Trump: I know nothing about that.
His brain is mush. He can’t even remember the things he said yesterday. He’s just blathering and soaking up adulation while he lets a zonked-out drug fiend with a broken dick run the country for him.
I’ve heard other comments about “Elon’s broken dick” 
but really don’t want to google. Brief explanation, por favor?
It’s not confirmed, but Azalea Banks tweeted a few weeks back that she was told by Grimes that Elon had gotten a penis implant surgery that failed and rendered him impotent.
It would certainly explain a lot.
Moderating:
Look, I dislike Musk as much as the next person, but could we save the uncited rude assertions for the Pit? I’m having more and more trouble distinguishing between P&E and the Pit. Let’s use a little more decorum in P&E.