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Trump cabinet confronted ‘liar’ Elon Musk in White House showdown

www.telegraph.co.uk Trump cabinet confronted ‘liar’ Elon Musk in White House showdown

Transport secretary Sean Duffy accuses tech billionaire of firing personnel that should not have been laid off

Summary

Elon Musk clashed with Trump’s cabinet in a heated White House meeting over Doge’s aggressive cost-cutting.

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy was enraged by Musk’s attempts to cut air traffic controllers despite a national shortage, accusing him of unjustified layoffs. Duffy presented a spreadsheet showing Musk was not telling the truth, prompting Trump to order MIT graduates be hired instead.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins criticized hospital cuts, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also confronted Musk.

Trump backed his cabinet, emphasizing a "scalpel rather than hatchet" approach to staffing reductions.

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This is all so very stupid. The truth is that fElon has zero qualifications for any of this shit. He just has money. And that's it.
- Zero qualifications and no confirmation hearing!
  
  No confirmation hearing stopped Garland from getting a SCOTUS seat, but it gives Elon a free pass.

The exchange ended with the president ordering Mr Duffy to hire staff from MIT as air traffic controllers because the role requires “geniuses”, The New York Times reported.
This is the dumbest timeline.
- "My expertise is mostly in sorting algorithms. I don't see how--"
  "Shut up, nerd! Get in the tower and make the planes stay in the air"
- I think I'd rather have actual idiocracy, because at least the president wanted to do well
  
  We’re in a prequel right now
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if the only water Trump drinks came from a toilet, tho.
- In reality, there are all sorts of unique requirements to be an air traffic controller, but I don't think "college degree" is one of them.
- Yeah I had really fucking hard scoff at that tidbit

This Nazi needs to watch out for the coming “night of the long knives”

Musk was approved by Krasnov Trump, he needs to grow a spine and take responsibility for musk. Instead Krasnov Trump is going to make Musk a scapegoat after getting what he want. Musk on the other hand is going to blame it on the leaders of organizations that fired workers
- It obviously wouldn’t get us out of this nightmare that reality has become, but it would make me feel just a bit happy to watch Elon’s smug ass get his face eaten by the leopard
- I have zero doubt that a large part of the reason that Trump appointed Musk in the first place was so that he could later throw him under the bus.
  
  While I agree the orangefuck is 100% capable of this, i doubt seriously his ability to apply this much forethought to anything.
- "Honestly, though, is it my fault that they did what I told them to do, or theirs for doing it?"
  It would seem fitting for a wannabe Nazi to trot out an inversion of the old "just following orders" Nuremberg defense, don't you think?
  I wonder, does Elon not realize that mentally ill, cognitively deficient, dark haired South Africans (let alone ones with what can only be described as 'likely deeply compensatory for something' levels of wealth) wouldn't have been doing much in the way of fraternizing with anyone Aryan outside of their camp stays?

Elon is scamming tax payer money and subsidies by blowing up his SpaceX rockets like fireworks. DOGE need to look into his wastages.

Removing the large swaths of the workforce in an agency does not automatically mean the remaining people will become more efficient and pick up the extra work. They need processes, tools, and training to support the increased workload - and even then it is possible that the RIF was too much. I'm not even sure a "scalpel" would be effective without a way to redirect the blood. Are these guys trying to be a case study in the HBR on what not to do?
- The Republican playbook has never been to make government better. Their goal is to make it worse so they can get more people to agree that it just needs to be privatized.

As president, musk can do whatever he wants. Supreme court said so.

Two liars battle it out.

"We want 10% cuts across the board, but not in my agency!"

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