Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

I'm no Musk fan whatsoever, but as a person who has run a few companies I'm sure he's able to connect with people and also understand how people work! What you have posted is nonsense.

You'd swear the guy was non verbal and living in his bedroom.

Of course, a small number of Americans got very rich out of the Great Depression .. including the Kennedys

Trump won’t stop now the feud continues

Unfortunately can’t post memes

But the “oh no anyways” and “on that bombshell” would be appropriate

He BOUGHT a few companies and then hired people to run them for him. When you're born into wealth that's the easy part.

There's a huge difference.

However, as we have seen over the past few years he has shown himself to be a wretched disaster and an active detriment to anything he touches.

It's a cult of personality that MAGA idiots only have in their heads. If one stands back and actually observes Donald Trump he really has nothing to offer. His only real skill is the ability to talk, and keep talking even when he enters the realm of absolute nonsense which is nearly always. MAGA has conned THEMSELVES in forgiveness mode where Trump is concerned and are willing to lower themselves continually for him and his demonstrable gibberish. They will consistently change the narrative, of their own accord, to protect him.

There was a piece on one of those American late night TV shows a couple of weeks ago where they did a little skit and sent an interviewer out onto the streets to talk to some MAGA clowns. The interviewer asked about Biden and his "bone spurs" and how it got him out of doing service during Vietnam. The Trump worshipper said how that was awful, and said other negative things about Biden when the interviewer mentioned other things that "Biden" had done, when they were really things that Trump had done.

Then the interviewer said Opps sorry, I said Biden when I meant Trump, can we do the interview over and asked the same questions but in relation to Trump this time. And bish, bash, bosh, the the interviewee's tune completely changed to one of making cheap excuses for Trump.

You simply cannot make people do that, whether you're a leader of a cult or not. People have to do that to themselves.

Even Hitler didn't enjoy that kind of hypocritical self deluded devotion.

He clearly has a great eye for spotting opportunities and emerging markets/trends and is very skilled at spinning a "vision" that investors buy in to.

Has he though?

I mean, you don't have to be a genius to see that EV's are going to be the way of the future, there's people without two shillings to rub together and just an inter cert that could tell you that. Space X already existed before Musk went near it and TBH fu*k what the end game of that is actually supposed to be, and he's made an absolute balls up of Twitter and turned it into a cesspool, not to mention the incredible loss maker that that pigsty now is.

I've never bought into the Musk myth. He's always seemed a bit off to me, which I put down to his autism. But it goes deeper than that. I genuinely think that there's absolutely nothing to the guy except the fact that he was born wealthy and has used that wealth to gain more. Other than that he endlessly spouts bollocks, has shown himself to be a complete spoofer with a fragile ego and has been easily played by MAGA, the obvious bad guys in the room.

He's an irresponsible manchild that has the luxury of immense wealth that allows him to do everything for shits and giggles.

It's a little bit telling how Trump and Musk's fans only seem to show in this thread occasionally these days and for most of the last six months.

It must be weird to be that Trumper who bought a Tesla just to "own the libs" and now needs to off load it.

Musk has done it before, when he was butt hurt with the number of his own interactions...

Thread has been an echo chamber for a lot longer than that, tbf

I can understand Hitler having and gaining his fanbase.

1. Versailles was an extremely harsh treaty on Germany. Loss of territory, not being able to have troops in the Rhineland. Only allowed a tiny army. Germany being solely blamed for WW1. Loss of prestige. Loss of colonies. French troops taking coal from the Sarr in the mid 1920s etc.

2. The Great Depression seriously effected Germany when American loans were called in.

3. Hitler was an excellent orator and pioneered electioneering techniques like flying to several rallies in a day.

As for Trump, he had nothing like that to tap into, the rust bucket regions weren't as impoverished as Germany in the early 30s.

All I can take from MAGA and Trump's popularity is that the US has a serious percentage of idiots. Yet you Google IQ and educational levels and the US scores highly. I can't make head nor tail of how the Trump cult grew. We're the Clintons, Hillary in particular, and Obama that unpopular and out of touch with their people. It didn't feel like that when they were in power.

Bannon has played the waiting game, stayed in shadows, drinking, but now he is back and he is going all out to destroy Musk. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him back in the White House… and then thrown out again after a few months.

Musk's Dad doing the rounds. On LBC saying his lad doesn't use drugs.

Reminds me of Boris's Dad. That ended well.