Trump dictates. Musk desiccates

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Trump dictates. Musk desiccates
Both have an insatiable appetite for destruction

By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published February 13, 2025 9:00AM (EST)


(Salon) Sporting a black MAGA hat and with one of his young children happily crawling up his back, co-President Elon Musk played with the White House press pool on Tuesday while Donald Trump gave him free rein in the Oval Office. Musk doubled down on cleaning up waste and cutting federal expenses — especially on regulatory agencies that have an influence on his many businesses. Trump smiled. No one in the room seemed to recognize or notice the hypocrisy.

“People are going to get what they voted for,” Musk explained. Trump sat, smiled and said Musk’s son had a high IQ. “And that’s what democracy is all about,” Musk added, admitting he may have misspoken on a few items on a few occasions. Trump smiled and signed another executive order. Later in the day, it was announced Musk had a tentative agreement to sell $400 million in armored trucks to the government. No one asked about that.

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At the same time, Trump, who claims he is going to be “transparent”, banned the Associated Press from attending the event in the Oval Office because it doesn’t recognize the “Gulf of America” as the new name of the Gulf of Mexico. So, as the fourth week of Donald Trump’s imperial regime unfolds, there are few things more transparent than the fact that nothing is going to deter Trump from doing what he wants. Whatever it says in the Constitution, whenever there is a dispute of facts, if Trump doesn’t agree with it there is no place for it in his world.

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“He is the master of the art of the deal,” His prep-school cheerleading press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told us in one of her rare briefings Wednesday afternoon.

His critics say otherwise. Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party congressman and briefly a candidate for president who ran against Trump on the Republican ticket, summed it up this way on “The Social Contract” podcast recently; “If you actually listen to Trump and Musk every day - our military sucks, the deep state controls our justice dept and the FBI, there is no independent media, the federal government is all fraudsters and bad bureaucrats, even the judiciary is corrupt. According to Trump/Trumpism, America just sucks. But yet…he got elected saying all of this. And elections have consequences.” ................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/13/dictates-musk-desiccates/

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1. Defecates.