Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon

2 years ago by Redditsux to c/news

TommySoda 146 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I hope Musk throws a temper tantrum and just starts leaking shit like crazy. He's unstable and unhinged enough that I wouldn't put it past him, especially since he basically paid for this election.

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gAlienLifeform 42 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I hope that plays out too, and it's never out of the question with how unhinged and drugged up Musk is, but unfortunately I think this is less Musk stepping back for real and more of a bullshit PR move to get some of the heat off of Trump and Elon both -

The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship.

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One senior administration official said Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser and continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. Another cautioned that anyone who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump’s orbit is “fooling themselves.”

The transition, the insiders said, is likely to correspond to the end of Musk’s time as a “special government employee,” a special status that temporarily exempts him from some ethics and conflict-of-interest rules. That 130-day period is expected to expire in late May or early June.

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Zippygutterslug 10 points 2 years ago

Musk will not be able to handle losing the spotlight

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MBM 8 points 2 years ago

Maybe we can convince Musk that we'd all find him really cool and based if he did that

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kautau 5 points 2 years ago

Here's hoping they can find all the backdoors that Big Balls or whatever put into all the government software to funnel money or accelerate the collapse or whatever if/when sane people once again are in control.

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CmdrShepard42 62 points 2 years ago

Leave soon ... to Mars hopefully?

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Hermit_Lailoken 34 points 2 years ago

Or the center of the sun.

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Nougat 23 points 2 years ago

It takes ~55 times more energy to go to the Sun than to Mars. Let's not expend resources carelessly.

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Rhaedas 23 points 2 years ago

LEO with a bad reentry is fine.

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trogon 10 points 2 years ago

I don't even want his charred remains here.

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BestBouclettes 4 points 2 years ago

Even with a bad exit TBF

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AmidFuror 5 points 2 years ago

I think it would be alright to let Musk get 7 gravity assists from Venus.

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Zoboomafoo 3 points 2 years ago

It's not careless, even if we launched him on an escape trajectory there's a chance he'll come back. Deorbiting him into the sun is the safest option.

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Nougat 3 points 2 years ago

This is an excellent point.

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ramenshaman 1 point 2 years ago

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Sterile_Technique 5 points 2 years ago

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DogPeePoo 5 points 2 years ago

Alllllll the way down the K-hole

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gatohaus 3 points 2 years ago

I’d be glad to:

Pack his bags tonight preflight..

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ramenshaman 2 points 2 years ago

Zero hour, 9 AM

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Formfiller 1 point 2 years ago

On his own rocket

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Rentlar 53 points 2 years ago

... and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points.

Will the real suckers and losers, please stand up?

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ptz 14 points 2 years ago

Will the real suckers and losers, please stand up?

Or at least would the real suckers and losers please shut up? They're always the loudest and dumbest in any space, and it's as if they stopped talking for even a second, they might actually have a critical thought (and that terrifies them).

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WuceBrillis 42 points 2 years ago

MFW Musk steps back, but Project 2025 continues as planned.

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HobbitFoot 5 points 2 years ago

That's what I'm expecting. They aren't going to fix what Musk broke and they are going ahead with tarrifs, which wasn't Musk led.

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WuceBrillis 5 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing that DOGE will also continue cutting funding left and right without Musk at the helm. Nothing changes with him stepping back.

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HeyJoe 38 points 2 years ago

Not shocking, although it was quicker than I expected. I was thinking more towards the end of the year once he got everything he wanted, but I think he is taking too much heat even for his comfort.

The only enjoyable part is knowing that the people can make it bad enough that they will leave.

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Artyom 1 point 2 years ago

Historically speaking, stealing Trump's spotlight for 3 months is actually a contender for the record.

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Ironfist79 34 points 2 years ago

President Musk won't go away voluntarily.

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Freshparsnip 3 points 2 years ago

Emperor Musk

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aseriesoftubes 33 points 2 years ago

Now he can focus on driving his companies into the ground.

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KingJalopy 12 points 2 years ago

Porque no los dos?

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ramenshaman 33 points 2 years ago

Well, considering that pretty much everything he says is a lie, I'm going to assume that Elon will be around for a long time.

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fluffykittycat 32 points 2 years ago

The pressure is working keep it up

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mrodri89 28 points 2 years ago

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FooBarrington 8 points 2 years ago

Hm... Is his mouth open? I could be convinced to shart in his general direction.

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Lemminary 2 points 2 years ago

If he were on fire I'd love to fan the flames. What a story for my grandkids that would be.

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Sgt_choke_n_stroke 24 points 2 years ago

Because trump hates loser. Trump puts the wisconsin election blame solely on him and that's it.

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ceenote 24 points 2 years ago

It's downright shocking that a man that rich doesn't know a fall guy when he sees one.

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Transtronaut 12 points 2 years ago

That would require not being blinded by his own ego.

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Ironfist79 4 points 2 years ago

Which one are you talking about here?

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Transtronaut 2 points 2 years ago

I assumed we were talking about Musk.

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wirebeads 23 points 2 years ago

Are they finally deporting that filthy African Nazi swine back to Africa? Please let it be that he’s being deported back. Fuck Musk 🖕

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PurpleSkull 22 points 2 years ago

"Leave" from public view. That is all people on the right ask of Musk. They are okay with his interference and interventions. He just makes himself too much of a target by being publicly visible.

You can't be the shadow government when you're exposed to sunlight. Then again, the brain behind the entire operation never stepped out of the shadows and will remain there. Peter Thiel.

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andxz 6 points 2 years ago

It should be common knowledge that Thiel wrote the actual manual for all of this shit as far back as 2009. The Education of a Libertarian, ironically enough. He really believes in his own bullshit, too.

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barneypiccolo 19 points 2 years ago

Skum has got to be hearing from his board and shareholders. I would be shocked if there aren't lawyers currently arranging a class-action lawsuit against him, for recklessly tanking the stock price, and the board of directors for not reigning him on or firing him.

The decline of the stock and the company brand image is DIRECTLY attributable to his personal behavior. Any idiot could have predicted the harsh negative response to his gleeful pyschopathic antics, and as a supposed genius, he should have known this.

Its already too late for Tesla. It was one of those magical stocks that was far too expensive for its fundamentals, and now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. Tesla is now just another unprofitable experimental car company, and like all that have come before, it will go bankrupt in a few years.

Skum is directly responsible for that, and his net worth will suffer greatly for it. Even more unfortunately for him, the net worth of his shareholders will also suffer, and they will eventually want to take it out of his hide. Tesla will be the first to go, but eventually all of his companies will tank. Its just a matter of time.

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figjam 2 points 2 years ago

I can only get so erect

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Mbourgon 1 point 2 years ago

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brygphilomena 16 points 2 years ago

A "special Government employee" (or "SGE") is an officer or employee in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government who is appointed to perform important [...] for a period not to exceed 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days.

https://www.doi.gov/...

May 30th is 130 days from Jan 20th.

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nova_ad_vitum 12 points 2 years ago

They can just declare that the passage of time has stopped, like they did for the national security exemption allowed by for the tariffs.

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jacksilver 12 points 2 years ago

God they're going to say everything people are angry about was Musks fault and try to shift the blame.

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reiterationstation 6 points 2 years ago

Probably but musk actually needs to go away, first.

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RattlerSix 12 points 2 years ago

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KingJalopy 12 points 2 years ago

I've got a poop knife that might help

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FoolishAchilles 6 points 2 years ago

Rare poop knife reference— take my upvote fellow keeper of lore

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KingJalopy 6 points 2 years ago

I really do have one. My daughter poops softballs sometimes lol.

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njm1314 12 points 2 years ago

I kind of doubt this. I think he's taking a step back. Shrinking into the Shadows Maybe. But I doubt that much money is being abandoned by Trump. And even if musk does step back all of his cronies are still working. I'll bet dollars to Donuts that the Trump Administration is still going to do what musk wants them to do. It was a true break it wouldn't be planned. It'd be abrupt and messy.

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timbuck2themoon 1 point 2 years ago

Trump lies all the time. He could easily be lying here. I don't believe anything til it actually happens.

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jordanlund 11 points 2 years ago

He also said Musk wasn't in charge...

https://apnews.com/...

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Kiernian 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it TOTALLY doesn't have anything to do with him getting caught tripping balls on camera right next to his lady friend at the White House table who was so disassociated that the poor girl couldn't stop stimming.

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Eheran 4 points 2 years ago

Stimming?

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unbuckled_easily933 3 points 2 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimming

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Kiernian 2 points 2 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimming

Basically, the rocking back and forth she's doing as a coping behavior.

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Photuris 9 points 2 years ago

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gravitas_deficiency 6 points 2 years ago

lol honestly, I’m just amused that the whole leak-palooza of the first term is just ramping up even harder this time

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grober_Unfug 6 points 2 years ago

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HellsBelle 6 points 2 years ago

LOL. Schmusk will be happy to hear that.

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Kolanaki 5 points 2 years ago

Will you go with him? Please go with him.

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Empricorn 5 points 2 years ago

Why not? He got to destroy all our public services people rely on, take the blame, then fucks off to go ruin more of the world. Great for this administration!

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circuitfarmer 5 points 2 years ago

A visit to the Titanic wreck, perhaps?

...silly me. Musk has been on the Titanic for months.

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Supervisor194 5 points 2 years ago

Anybody notice that Trump doesn't give the Scaramucci treatment to people in this go-around? He was hiring then firing left and right in his first term, but this time around - nothing.

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LifeInMultipleChoice 10 points 2 years ago

Last time he didn't know he had to hire his staff, he knew nothing (it was an extreme embarrassment, possibly the biggest embarrassment I can think of, Huge really). This time the staff was pre-organized and gathered essentially by project 2025.

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Freshparsnip 5 points 2 years ago

You mean Trump and Musk are getting divorced?

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blattrules 4 points 2 years ago

Like how bannon left?

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Master 2 points 2 years ago

Like how Epstine left?

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blattrules 2 points 2 years ago

I don’t think we’ll be so lucky.

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bradorsomething 3 points 2 years ago

No way, only one of you is leaving the X House, and it’s not him.

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pivot_root 3 points 2 years ago

Make sure to let the door hit you on the way out, asshat.

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trogon 3 points 2 years ago

The planet? That would be great.

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hansolo 3 points 2 years ago

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DogPeePoo 2 points 2 years ago

Shrinking (African) violet

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