Summary
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell criticized Donald Trump’s Oval Office press conference with Elon Musk, calling it “the most powerless image of a president” ever.
Musk dominated the event—standing over Trump, speaking more words, and violating White House norms with his casual attire and child’s presence.
O’Donnell contrasted Musk’s influence with Trump’s past and present vice presidents, arguing that neither Mike Pence nor JD Vance would challenge Trump’s authority in such a manner.
i feel like “schmuck” needs to make a comeback in the vernacular.
Schmusk
I see two 4 year olds in this photo
Don’t forget Lil X!
Is that because the kid is 5?
Weird how one CEO gets Luigied and suddenly it’s bring your kid to work day for president Musk.
I have never seen Trump act more servile towards anyone than when he pulled a chair out for Netanyahu.
Poor kid is named X. What stupid assholes his parents are: he’s gonna have to bear that stupid name all his life.
Then again, he could have been called Twitter I guess…
he’s gonna have to bear that stupid name all his life.
Now now… They could legally change it when they’re 18.
Except Republicans are pushing anti-trans laws to prevent people from changing their names. The current proposal floating around would prevent married women from voting because they take on their husband’s last name.
Great reason to get rid of the dumb archaic practice in the first place. I repeatedly told my wife she shouldn’t feel any pressure to take my name. She did anyway, but I think it was just because she liked it more.
Anyway, sacrificing your ability to vote in order to take your husbands last name might have the oh so unfortunate side effect of keeping trad wives from voting.
$ man ascii | awk '/X$/ {print $7}' 88X is 88 in decimal? Musk’s obsession with that letter finally makes sense
I don’t believe he’s that smart.
Star trek deep space nine spoilers
Their relationship is like grand nagus zek
and ishka. Ishka wasnt allowed to do business under ferengi law due to being a woman. So she got close to zek and was acting behind the scenes to help maintain zeks appearance during his mental decline.
Musk, being an illegal immigrant, wouldn’t have been able to be president directly. One difference being musk is clearly leading in the spotlight.
I understand this analogy.
I use arch, btw.
Fucking love it when articles are specifically about a photo but they don’t post the fucking photo
it’s not about a photo
violating White House norms with his casual attire and child’s presence.
He also had a 5 year old with him.
Ah yes, his human shield he’s had since The Luigi Event.
Not so much a shield, more a prop.
I mean you say that but he’s been wearing him on his shoulders like body armor since the day after. He’s definitely a shield.
Won’t protect him from something nasty slipped into his ket.
A fentanyl overdose could save the world!
Por que no los dos?
Yeah that’s what “child’s presence” means
It’s a joke, implying that ‘child’s presence’ referred to his own presence, or Trump’s.
Damn that went straight over my head
label musk as alpha and trump as beta in this picture (not that I believe in those labels but they do)
Then post it all over x-itter like crazy… Don’t let it die… make this ‘a thing’
And then watch Musk have the conundrum as to whether to take it down or not…
His ego wouldn’t let him take it down, and make Donny Dump respond to it…
Also, who wears a basebal cap and a T-shirt, and brings his four-year old who - like any four-year old - can’t shut the hell up in the oval office? I mean honestly, who is this guy? Just because he has money doesn’t give him the right to turn the presidency into a fucking daycare center. He could at least pretend to respect the institution a little bit…
Just because he has money doesn’t give him the right
Gonna stop you there, friend, and remind you that this is America. Yes it does.
I mean, he bought the presidency so….
At this point th presidency is meaningless and vomitous anyway. I don’t care if they just start wearing wife beaters and golf shorts - they truly can’t bring the position or country any lower.
The 4 year old is nothing more than a meat shield. Remember how right after the CEO shooting, Elmo started carrying one of his brood with him?
On the other hand, maybe the most sensible things might have come from the 4-year-old … Do we have an official statement from the child ?
P.S. : first time ever I’m not writing down the usual /sarcasmMusk Jr. would like it on the record that we need more candy and toys.
if only that was the only statements coming out of the White House, it would be the best one ever
We kinda do, the kid basically said what sounds like parroting daddy with "they’ll never know evil toddler laugh’ when he overheard discussion of voting machines or some shit
I’m sure the right wingers complaining about Zelensky not wearing a suit are incandescent with rage about Musks lack of decorum.
The same people who raged about Obama’s tan suit
Wormtongue has made himself very cosy in his new home it would seem.
I understood that reference… but Theodin was a good man
Truth. This is more like having two Wormtongues trying to corrupt each other.
Wormtongue and Denethor, maybe.
Except, instead of having a crippling love for his son, this Denethor has a daughter he wants to fuck.
You want to get rid of Musk, stuff like this is how you do it.
Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won’t be able to handle it. Look how fast he lost his shit during that debate with Harris when the subject of his crowd size came up.
I really think people who say this aren’t reading the room. It’s not the same old Trump. This is an old broken down mentally deficient Trump. This isn’t a case of an alliance between equals. This is a case of a grifter taking advantage of a guy too old to make decisions for himself. This is like a guy stealing the Social Security checks , altering the will , and selling assets for his own gain. I mean by all means keep saying it, cuz who knows and it is true, I just don’t think it’ll work. If anything it might be embolding Musk and legitimizing him.
Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won’t be able to handle it.
That’s what I’ve thought until now, but after that display I don’t think he’ll do anything to Musk, who it seems really does have some power over him–the money of course, but maybe something else too–maybe some dirt, maybe something in conjunction with Putin. But to let that little brat say those things[*] to him and his only reaction was to be submissive and look away tells me Musk really is the one in control here. This is actually scary.
[*] “You’re not the president, you need to go away” and “I want you to shut your fucking mouth up”
