Elon Musk Brags About How Much He Controls Trump

- Putin. Putin controls them both.
  
  So true. Not enough people realize how much power and experience weilding that power that Putin has over oligarchs. Putin is the man behind these "men."
  
  Putin controls a lot of things but he doesn't own ole Musky. That's a uniquely special brand of evil and crazy.
  
  I mean, do they both want to play the evil game along a stray dog raised in the Kgb?
  Whats fun with narcissist people is they've no clue about opponents skills, since they can't see over they're own ones.

The article’s title does not match the content. I read it and it does not talk about how Musk controls Trump. It talks about retaliation for those organizing protests against Tesla.
- Yeah, you really have to read the literal and between the lines understand where the author is coming from.
  “Those are the real villains here, and we’re going to go after them,” the DOGE chief warned. “The president has made it clear, we’re going to go after them.”
  Author is tying his tweets, this desperate interviews to the administration's actions to get actual people charged with hate crimes for properly damage not to mention getting his shitty AG to prosecute property damage as domestic terrorism.
  Right or wrong, I do see what the author was trying to get at.
- The article’s title does not match the content. I read it and it does not talk about how Musk controls Trump. It talks about retaliation for those organizing protests against Tesla.
  Welcome to Lemmy, where people's personal agendas/marketing shape the titles of their posts.
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  The title of the post matches the title of the article, this isn't a case of a poster editorializing.
  
  The post title is an exact and faithful copy of the linked article, though. There's no editorializing here.
  
  I don't think he is talking about the title of the post on Lemmy but the title of the Yahoo article. Your point about people on Lemmy changing the title is not how things look.
  "Welcome to Lemmy, where people's personal agendas/marketing shape the titles of their posts."
  That has no barring on how Yahoo named their title.

Well he isn't wrong.

Hey you White House, hahaaa, charade you are!
- He’s the opposite of Mary Whitehouse though.
  
  Seems like a relevant context.

In a matter of months, Tesla’s brand identity has radically shifted from a liberal-leaning, environmentally conscious car label to a symbol of Donald Trump’s movement, thanks to Musk’s “dark MAGA” rebranding.
you mean nazi ?
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YOU MEAN NAZI ?

That fucking thumbnail. I can't even post the thoughts that enter my mind when I see it.
- "Mike Myers acted a better cringey villain."
  Close?

He doesn't need to brag, we all know it's the truth.

Because he hacked the election machines and used Twitter to push spam.
He owns Trump and atrump knows it; otherwise he'd be staring down the barrel of a few dozen felonies.
- Is this like Mutually Assured Destruction but for felonies?

Someone needs to convince dear leader that that the enemies are in his own house!
“What’s happening, it seems to me, is they’re being fed propaganda by the far left, and they believe it. It’s really unfortunate,” Musk continued, claiming that the “real problem” isn’t the “crazy guy” who attacks his vehicles but rather the people that push the “propaganda” that encourages him to do it.
Four top officers at the company have unloaded more than $100 million in stock since last month, reported ABC News. They include James Murdoch, the estranged son of right-wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk, who shed $27 million, according to a Security and Exchange Control filing.
Go after them Elon! They must be the problem - they're the only ones with the money!
“Those are the real villains here, and we’re going to go after them,” the DOGE chief warned. “The president has made it clear, we’re going to go after them.”
“The ones providing the money, the ones pushing the lies and propaganda? We’re going after them,” Musk said, casually pointing his fingers in the shape of a gun.

Please throw him out of a window. Pleeeeeease

I'm sure Trump says the same thing

IDK it feels mostly pathetic pleading to shareholders that he will be able to get the situation under control, and the line will go back up. It's pathetic is what it is.

From the article ...
“What’s happening, it seems to me, is they’re being fed propaganda by the far left, and they believe it. It’s really unfortunate,” Musk continued, claiming that the “real problem” isn’t the “crazy guy” who attacks his vehicles but rather the people that push the “propaganda” that encourages him to do it.
“Those are the real villains here, and we’re going to go after them,” the DOGE chief warned. “The president has made it clear, we’re going to go after them.”
“The ones providing the money, the ones pushing the lies and propaganda? We’re going after them,” Musk said, casually pointing his fingers in the shape of a gun.
- Also:
  On Monday, Washington’s Metropolitan Police revealed that two people accused of vandalizing a Tesla windshield will be charged for “political hate speech.”
  
  “political hate speech.”
  I worry that we will see the rise of that phrase in future months as it's used against citizens who are pro-democracy.
  
  On Monday, Washington’s Metropolitan Police revealed that two people accused of vandalizing a Tesla windshield will be charged for “political hate speech.”
  Not to be pedantic, and to be fair, but it is political speech. It's definately not complaining about customer service or warranties.
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Can’t wait for Trump to deport him.