Posted on 07/13/2022 11:24:23 AM PDT by qaz123
Former President Donald Trump continued his attacks against billionaire Elon Musk from his platform Truth Social on Tuesday, saying he’d be “worthless” without government subsidies.
Recalling the billionaire’s visit to the White House during his presidency, Trump said that Musk wanted government subsidies for many of his projects that offered big promises without delivering many rewards. Trump said:
When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican.
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The President shouldn't talk to about someone like that.
The President shouldn't talk about Musk like that, he's a potential ally.
The President shouldn't use such harsh language....it's how most of sane thinking, working men/women talk every day.
The President this, that or the other thing.
Yes, Musk paid back the loans with interest. I get it.
Without the initial tax breaks for the original Tesla, that sold for what-$100k+, he wouldn't have sold many. They were all sold to the rich who, in Georgia, were getting $5k in tax breaks. Sorry, the guy who can afford a Sunday Driver that goes for well over $100k, doesn't deserve or need a tax break from anyone.
So, at the end of the day, coupled with a recent article about how Musk has promised the moon and failed to deliver, someone tell me where the President is wrong.
Rump! Rump! Rump!
So would the NFL.
Donald J. Trump is pretty precise and accurate in getting a thumb nail sketch of public personalities. I trust his judgement. Don’t be too quick to cast things he says aside.
How about - the man who wants to be president should be talking about what he wants to do when he is president or what his actual plan is for becoming president given his conviction that the current electoral system is deeply tainted by fraud. What’s his plan for actually fixing that - other than just having a bunch of people announce that the scales have fallen from their eyes and now they realize he was right all along. And even that wouldn’t prevent this terrible fraud from happening again.
Instead he’s spending his time on Twitter calling somebody else a jerk.
The Left, despite disparate goals, manages to act in unison when they need to.
The Right burns bridges when the chips are down.
Trump is right again.
Yeah he’s right, but some things are more important than being right.
Like learning when to keep your fkn mouth shut.
I think this is all unnecessary and distracting. If anything, Trump should be supporting Musk in getting to to bottom of Twitter’s fraud, which Trump himself has been a victim of. What does he gain from dumping on Musk. In my opinion, nothing.
*The President shouldn’t talk about Musk like that, he’s a potential ally.*
Too many phonies out there. Trump is right to call them out. Think Bono and his trip to Africa with Rick Santorum. Think Arnold and the Rock skippin’ out and supporting Hillary/Biden. Colin Powell. Their timing is always good, right when we’re about to lose.
Perot was a certified mental case who talked big. Some of the stuff he said made sense. Anybody can do that.
Yeah, I don’t understand this. There’s no reason to burn these kinds of bridges.
Like Alex Jones, Trump is right again.
>>Like learning when to keep your fkn mouth shut.
Yep - can’t figure out why he feels a need to alienate even people that are somewhat on his side - he is probably pissed that Musk mentioned he might vote for DeSantis, having Musk bashing Democrats is a good thing. He needs thicker skin.
That’s very true.
But this isn’t about the Right. Musk is a snake oil salesman, nothing more.
He’s a venture capitalist and opportunist, nothing more. I wouldn’t having money but I’m also not some hater.
Could be that this whole thing with him and Twitter is some master chess move, because I’m thinking that if Twitter really does go after him, they’ll be forced to disclose all the information he’s been asking for, anyway. That is, depends on the judge they get.
But, for me, unless it involves life-saving research NO ONE, nor any company should get a subsidy from the government. Go to the Wall St and DC crowd and get your money from them. Problem with going to Wall St and DC, they expect and demand results. And they damned sure demand accountability.
You lose their money and they want to know why and how.
You lose the taxpayers money....oh, well. I tried. Gave it my best shot. My bad. Sorry. Hey, I’ve got this new idea, can we talk about it.
Does anyone think if some hedge fund or investment group gave Solyndra $500million that it would have been allowed to declare bankruptcy, sell it to the Chinese for nothing and walk away?
Not sure who you’re talking about.
He’s got to keep his chops sharp somehow!
Maybe he'd have been successful without that starter money. Maybe Elon Musk would have been successful without the government subsidies. We don't know.
I will say that those exact same subsidies that Musk used to his advantage were available to every single other American, including Rump. Yet, he was the only one who managed to turn that into a fortune worth over $100 billion dollars.
I'm not really sure this is a line of attack that really benefits Rump.
I just think that this us a fight that Trump doesn’t need...
DGT might be right but I don’t think this is to his advantage.
Yes, he’s right. He was also right when he called Rosie O’Donnell a fat ugly pig. But some things are better left unsaid, especially by a presidential contender.
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