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The King and His Executioner
Trump is Sitting Back and Letting Musk Do the Dirty Work
Donald Trump is basically lazy and super sensitive to any criticism, which explains why we have Elon Musk still throwing chainsaws around in the White House. Musk is Trump’s popularity insurance policy. He will take the fall when things get bad for them, which may be sooner than you think.
It’s a guessing game in DC when this bromance loses its spark and Musk wears out his welcome. But right now he is too valuable to drop, as he slashes and burns in the name of cost cutting. There is a pattern emerging. As Trump’s minions, like Stephen Miller, go public with lies and exaggerations about the numbers on various TV shows, Trump sits back and repeats those numbers, with the caveat that ‘this is what they’re telling me’.
Not that he knows they are true but that he has been told they are true. And that means if he is ever legally confronted with lying he can throw the blame on ‘they’. It’s his game book from an entire life of lying and it has worked pretty well. But I have to wonder who is the stooge this time around?
As Musk and his gamers get access to government databases, including the ability to change those databases, power at the top will shift and Trump may find himself at their mercy. That is because that data represents…
