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Trump taunted over ‘most powerless image of a president’ ever

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Trump Taunted Over ‘Most Powerless Image Of A President’ Ever

Summary

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell criticized Donald Trump’s Oval Office press conference with Elon Musk, calling it “the most powerless image of a president” ever.

Musk dominated the event—standing over Trump, speaking more words, and violating White House norms with his casual attire and child’s presence.

O’Donnell contrasted Musk’s influence with Trump’s past and present vice presidents, arguing that neither Mike Pence nor JD Vance would challenge Trump’s authority in such a manner.

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violating White House norms with his casual attire and child’s presence.
He also had a 5 year old with him.
- Ah yes, his human shield he's had since The Luigi Event.
  
  Not so much a shield, more a prop.
  
  More like this i.m.o. :
  ::: spoiler senile 5 y.o.
  :::
- Trump?
- Yeah that's what "child's presence" means
  
  It's a joke, implying that 'child's presence' referred to his own presence, or Trump's.
  
  Up in the sky, look!
  It's a bird!
  It's a plane!
  It's the joke!
Weird how one CEO gets Luigied and suddenly it's bring your kid to work day for president Musk.
- Lol I think I can get behind Luigi as a verb
Also, who wears a basebal cap and a T-shirt, and brings his four-year old who - like any four-year old - can't shut the hell up in the oval office? I mean honestly, who is this guy? Just because he has money doesn't give him the right to turn the presidency into a fucking daycare center. He could at least pretend to respect the institution a little bit...
- The 4 year old is nothing more than a meat shield. Remember how right after the CEO shooting, Elmo started carrying one of his brood with him?
  
  🤔
  
  Like that would work in a country dominated by school shooters.
  I feel bad for the kid being spawned by Musk though.
- Just because he has money doesn't give him the right
  Gonna stop you there, friend, and remind you that this is America. Yes it does.
- On the other hand, maybe the most sensible things might have come from the 4-year-old ... Do we have an official statement from the child ?
  P.S. : first time ever I'm not writing down the usual /sarcasm
  
  Musk Jr. would like it on the record that we need more candy and toys.
  
  We kinda do, the kid basically said what sounds like parroting daddy with "they'll never know evil toddler laugh' when he overheard discussion of voting machines or some shit
  
  I don't see any sarcasm here. That is a 100% factual statement.
- At this point th presidency is meaningless and vomitous anyway. I don't care if they just start wearing wife beaters and golf shorts - they truly can't bring the position or country any lower.
- I mean, he bought the presidency so….
I'm sure the right wingers complaining about Zelensky not wearing a suit are incandescent with rage about Musks lack of decorum.
- The same people who raged about Obama's tan suit
  
  Or choice of mustard.
  
  So who all is being hypocritical?
You want to get rid of Musk, stuff like this is how you do it.
Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won't be able to handle it. Look how fast he lost his shit during that debate with Harris when the subject of his crowd size came up.
- I really think people who say this aren't reading the room. It's not the same old Trump. This is an old broken down mentally deficient Trump. This isn't a case of an alliance between equals. This is a case of a grifter taking advantage of a guy too old to make decisions for himself. This is like a guy stealing the Social Security checks , altering the will , and selling assets for his own gain. I mean by all means keep saying it, cuz who knows and it is true, I just don't think it'll work. If anything it might be embolding Musk and legitimizing him.
  
  No one knows what the deal is with that relationship. Maybe this is all part of their plan, maybe Elon has dirt on Trump, maybe he's brainwashed and neuralink is more advanced than is publicly known. Maybe they're both being blackmailed, and Joe Biden is the one really pulling the strings, and he's trying to destroy the country as revenge for Harris?
  There are a lot of equally likely possibilities here, so we shouldn't try to jump to conclusions.
- Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won’t be able to handle it.
  That's what I've thought until now, but after that display I don't think he'll do anything to Musk, who it seems really does have some power over him--the money of course, but maybe something else too--maybe some dirt, maybe something in conjunction with Putin. But to let that little brat say those things[*] to him and his only reaction was to be submissive and look away tells me Musk really is the one in control here. This is actually scary.
  [*] "You're not the president, you need to go away" and "I want you to shut your fucking mouth up"
  
  tips tinfoil hat
  He rigged the election for him... Even if it didn't cause the win, if he has irrefutable proof he rigged the election then he can bring Trump down with him. He could boost it into everyone's Twitter feeds that he didn't actually win and they would be forced to do something about it.
  
  Wait, what is this * part of your comment? I guess I missed some piece of these insane news cycles.
  
  This is 2016 Trump coming home to roost
Fucking love it when articles are specifically about a photo but they don’t post the fucking photo
- it's not about a photo
  
  It literally is, i saw the photo in another article
Wormtongue has made himself very cosy in his new home it would seem.
- I understood that reference... but Theodin was a good man
  
  Piter an the Baron?
  same actor for Piter and Wormtongue
- I see two 4 year olds in this photo
  
  Is that because the kid is 5?
  
  Don’t forget Lil X!
  
  3*
Poor kid is named X. What stupid assholes his parents are: he's gonna have to bear that stupid name all his life.
Then again, he could have been called Twitter I guess...
- he's gonna have to bear that stupid name all his life.
  Now now... They could legally change it when they're 18.
  
  Except Republicans are pushing anti-trans laws to prevent people from changing their names. The current proposal floating around would prevent married women from voting because they take on their husband's last name.
- $ man ascii | awk '/X$/ {print $7}' 88
  
  X is 88 in decimal? Musk's obsession with that letter finally makes sense
The whole thing seemed to me to be a cutscene from the Red Alert universe.
- Man I miss Westwood studios so much. All their games are masterpieces. I still play red alert 2 with my mom to this day, she introduced the series to me as a very young lad back in 1997
  
  That's awesome. Who usually wins?
- I'm catching a ride with Tim Curry
  
  Save me a seat
- I’ve been summoned
  
  KIROV REPORTING
Elon's kid made a fucking bitch of trump on live television and we can never go back from that moment
label musk as alpha and trump as beta in this picture (not that I believe in those labels but they do)
Then post it all over x-itter like crazy.. Don't let it die.. make this 'a thing'
And then watch Musk have the conundrum as to whether to take it down or not....
His ego wouldn't let him take it down, and make Donny Dump respond to it....
I have never seen Trump act more servile towards anyone than when he pulled a chair out for Netanyahu.
Star trek deep space nine spoilers ::: spoiler Their relationship is like grand nagus zek and ishka. Ishka wasnt allowed to do business under ferengi law due to being a woman. So she got close to zek and was acting behind the scenes to help maintain zeks appearance during his mental decline.
Musk, being an illegal immigrant, wouldn't have been able to be president directly. One difference being musk is clearly leading in the spotlight. :::
- I understand this analogy.
  I use arch, btw.
i feel like "schmuck" needs to make a comeback in the vernacular.
- Schmusk
Think of the relationship as a CEO and the chairman of the board, this is the way Trump sees it. The CEO is front and center but does the bidding of the chairman.
I don't think this is accurate of course but I'm sure Trump sees it this way.
Pretty obvious that Jabba-the Orange is incompetent, confused and weak - a prime target for an even sleazier opportunist.
- Or a puppeteer to pull his strings (or y'know... If he's a ventriloquist's dummy...)
Musk America Great Again
- Mock America Goodly Always
We were being shown who the real owners are (incel Dogebags like fElon) , and diaper donvict has to sit there and take it along with the rest of us.
Cuck
'trump taunted' is not news. The other half of the country sees this as a big dick power move. You can spin it any way you like. Pointless journalism. What's the point?
- It's not journalism. It's entertainment.
  
  I know. I wish it was treated as such. I really hope people in the future come to value nuance.
Wow, it has to be bad if it beats a tan suit. /s
Please share this image
Speaking more words. Lmao.
- Bigly
rump is such a bitch!
His DEI's are bitches too! (don, eric, ivanka)
Let me preface this by saying I don't like trump, at all. But his powerlessness was nothing in comparison to whoever that democratic congresswoman outside the treasury building when DOGE was in there doing god knows what. Dems take the cake on appearing powerless, and that needs to change.

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