Donald Trump tried to assist his co-President Elon Musk stem the bleeding at his flailing automotive firm on Tuesday by holding an infomercial in entrance of the White Home and claiming he was shopping for one among Musk’s overpriced, unsafe, and more and more unpopular electrical vehicles.
“It’s a great product, as good as it gets,” Trump stated, holding a literal checklist of speaking factors concerning the vehicles as Musk and one among Musk’s many youngsters stood alongside him. “This man has devoted his energy and his life to doing this and I think he’s been treated very unfairly by a very small group of people.”
Trump, who stated he isn’t going to make use of the automotive he buys as a result of he hasn’t “driven a car in a long time,” obtained into the automobiles and proved that he is an out-of-touch 78-year-old geezer when he declared, “All the pieces’s pc!”
Trump additionally threatened anybody who protests at Tesla dealerships, which is an more and more well-liked pastime, saying he’ll label them home terrorists.
“Law enforcement is out there watching everybody. We don’t want this to happen,” Trump stated.
Trump’s boosting of his buddy’s struggling automotive firm began within the early hours of Tuesday with one other infomercial on his Fact Social platform wherein he inspired Republicans to purchase Teslas to assist Musk out.
“To Republicans, Conservatives, and all great Americans, Elon Musk is ‘putting it on the line’ in order to help our Nation, and he is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! But the Radical Left Lunatics, as they often do, are trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, one of the World’s great automakers, and Elon’s ‘baby,’ in order to attack and do harm to Elon, and everything he stands for,” Trump wrote at 12:14 AM ET. “They tried to do it to me at the 2024 Presidential Ballot Box, but how did that work out? In any event, I’m going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show of confidence and support for Elon Musk, a truly great American. Why should he be punished for putting his tremendous skills to work in order to help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN???”
Tesla’s inventory worth has fallen practically 30% over the previous month, as Musk and his so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity have been the public face of the Trump administration’s chaotic, damaging, and harmful cuts to the federal authorities and federal workforce.
Musk’s approval score is in the bathroom, with 53% of voters viewing him unfavorably, in accordance to a Civiqs monitoring ballot. And his approval has quite a bit farther to fall.
Throughout a Monday evening interview on Fox information, the multibillionaire stated that he’s coming for Social Safety and Medicare—two of the hottest authorities packages that assist older Individuals afford well being care and retirement.
In that very same interview, Musk complained concerning the difficulties his enterprise empire is going through since he joined the Trump administration.
“How are you running your other businesses?” Trump stooge Larry Kudlow requested Musk.
“With great difficulty,” replied a seemingly teary Musk. “I’m just here trying to make government more efficient, eliminate waste and fraud, and so far we’re making good progress,” he whined.
In an effort to consolation his good friend, Trump stated he’s writing an $80,000 examine for a pink Mannequin S sedan, which he’ll go away on the White Home for workers members to drive. And this isn’t the president’s first Tesla buy.
Trump stated he additionally bought a Tesla Cybertruck, which begins at $80,000 however can go a lot larger, for his granddaughter Kai a few 12 months in the past. Based on a checklist of speaking factors Trump held concerning the vehicles on show, the Cybertruck displayed on the White Home value a whopping $114,000.
Even Fox Information reporters had been aghast at Trump’s efforts to assist Musk’s firm, with trusty Trump sycophant Peter Doocy asking how Individuals—who’re watching their retirement portfolios crater as Trump insurance policies assist tank the inventory market—will really feel seeing Trump shell out tens of hundreds of {dollars} for a brand new automotive that he received’t even drive.
“You’re buying a new car. There are some folks who will see this clip at home and they are struggling with their retirement accounts down at the moment,” Doocy stated to Trump.
The president’s reply was predictably dismissive and nonsensical.
“Well I think they’re gonna go great,” Trump stated. “Our country had to do this.”
In the end, Trump’s automotive industrial on the White Home is simply the most recent occasion wherein he is defiling the workplace of the presidency, making an attempt to assist line the pockets of the richest man on this planet, who additionally occurs to be his largest political benefactor—all whereas on taxpayer-owned property.
Tuesday’s cringey show isn’t practically the goofiest stunt Trump has pulled throughout his political profession.
Who can neglect the time he rode in a rubbish truck in the course of the 2024 marketing campaign, practically falling over as he tried to enter the car?
He pretended to work at a McDonald’s to show that, regardless of rising up with a silver spoon in his mouth, he fashions himself as a person of the folks.
There was additionally the time throughout his first time period within the White Home when he sat within the cab of a giant rig and honked the horn, similar to a giant boy.
It’s unclear if Trump’s newest Tesla stunt will really assist poor little wealthy boy Musk cease his firm from crumbling.
Tesla’s buyer base consists of educated, high-income people who stay in blue states like California and within the Northeast—the place Trump and Musk should not well-liked. So Trump hawking the automobiles might in the end do extra hurt than good for Musk and his firm.
However that’s inappropriate.
Trump used the White Home to attempt to assist his prime crony profit financially. That could be a sick perversion of the presidency that ought to disturb folks of all political stripes.
