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Dennis Donovan

(27,400 posts) Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:29 PM Sunday

Bloomberg: Trump Says Talk That He's Ceded Presidency to Musk Is a 'Hoax'

Bloomberg - (archived: https://archive.ph/cOn9A ) Trump Says Talk That He’s Ceded Presidency to Musk Is a ‘Hoax’

-President-elect addresses billionaire ally’s power in speech

-Musk’s influence on display in congressional budget wrangling

By Josh Wingrove and Gregory Korte
December 22, 2024 at 2:52 PM EST

Donald Trump said Sunday that he will be president of the US — not Elon Musk.

“No, he’s not taking the presidency,” Trump told a conservative audience in Phoenix, addressing growing complaints about the outsized role the Tesla boss has already had in his incoming administration.

“You know, they’re on a new kick,” he said. “All the different hoaxes. The new one is that President Trump has ceded the presidency to Elon Musk. No, no, that’s not happening.”

That Trump would be compelled to address Musk’s power is testimony to the unusual influence that the world’s richest man has displayed in a second Trump presidency that won’t begin for another month.

Trump has tapped Musk to head a cost-cutting and deregulation effort he calls the Department of Government Efficiency. It’s not an official department, but rather a small group of people working from the Washington offices of Musk’s SpaceX and organized around an account on Musk’s social media platform, X.

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This is really fucking with Trump's head!

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Bloomberg: Trump Says Talk That He's Ceded Presidency to Musk Is a 'Hoax' (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Sunday OP

It's getting to him. Good. Ocelot II Sunday #1

May it continue to fuck with his head, over and over again. I want him miserable. Biophilic Sunday #2

But... but but I saw a tweet. And it's REALLY genuine WarGamer Sunday #3

Too clever by half. Or more. dpibel Sunday #10

Putin has chosen Musk for this round nt delisen Sunday #4

It is weird that trump ceded his presidency to musk, but... Omnipresent Sunday #5

Having to insist you are still the President of the US is not a good look. Irish_Dem Sunday #6

I like that the Sick Fuck has to say that Cha Sunday #7

A "hoax" like climate challenges? Like the case with E Jean Carroll? Like Covid 19? Got it. Deuxcents Sunday #8

Even though Musk was not natural born, the optics of the meme is aggravating Trumpworld. keithbvadu2 Sunday #9

He doesn't know what a 'hoax' is maxsolomon Monday #11

Ocelot II

(121,473 posts)

1. It's getting to him. Good.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:30 PM

Sunday

Biophilic

(4,986 posts)

2. May it continue to fuck with his head, over and over again. I want him miserable.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:31 PM

Sunday

WarGamer

(15,744 posts)

3. But... but but I saw a tweet. And it's REALLY genuine

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:32 PM

Sunday

dpibel

(3,439 posts)

10. Too clever by half. Or more.

Reply to WarGamer (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 07:14 PM

Sunday

I know I'm the proverbial slow boat and all, but the best sense I can make of this cryptic offering is that it's a swing and a mighty, mighty miss.

But I'm only guessing at what you mean.

I'm thinking that you are referring to the long allegedly from Trump social media post that went around the other day.

But what this OP has to do with that is way beyond my pay grade.

If anything, I'd say that the fact Trump is saying this out loud in public (which is what the OP is about) lends credence to the idea that he'd post the same sentiment on social media.

At any rate, I realize that the sarcasm tag is the universal out. But, to me, your sarcasm (although I really think you mean irony) is so deep that it's unfathomable. At least to the lesser minds.

delisen

(6,575 posts)

4. Putin has chosen Musk for this round nt

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Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:32 PM

Sunday

Omnipresent

(6,469 posts)

5. It is weird that trump ceded his presidency to musk, but...

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:35 PM

Sunday

Trump has done far more weirder things in his last presidency!

Irish_Dem

(59,687 posts)

6. Having to insist you are still the President of the US is not a good look.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:36 PM

Sunday

Cha

(305,853 posts)

7. I like that the Sick Fuck has to say that

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:36 PM

Sunday

about Mump.

Deuxcents

(20,130 posts)

8. A "hoax" like climate challenges? Like the case with E Jean Carroll? Like Covid 19? Got it.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:36 PM

Sunday

keithbvadu2

(40,495 posts)

9. Even though Musk was not natural born, the optics of the meme is aggravating Trumpworld.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:44 PM

Sunday

Even though Musk was not natural born, the optics of the meme is aggravating Trumpworld.

Make it a conspiracy theory like the right-wing meme that 'Obama was the real president' for Biden's term.

Trump denying it put it out front.

There is a tale of LBJ using outlandish claims to make his opponent deny them.

https://barrypopik.com/blog/i_know_its_not_true_but_lets_make_the_sonafabitch_deny_it_a_loaded_politica

maxsolomon

(35,358 posts)

11. He doesn't know what a 'hoax' is

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2024, 03:02 PM

Monday

It's not trolling, which is what Dems saying MFer is controlled by Musk is.

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