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brush

(58,759 posts)
3. Musk needs to calm the Fu_k down. Doge, whatever that means...
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 11:48 AM
Jan 26

has no portfolio, no power to make things happen. All it can do is recommend and even that vague duty is ephemeral and IMO will prove to be of little consequence...partly because of the annoying and insistent, attention seeking nature of the man in charge of it, and the rethugs wafer thin majority in the House which renders rethug Speaker Johnson even less able to get the trump cabal's policy agenda done than even his failed predecessor McCarthy could do.

In other words, that Nazi-saluting fool gets no office in the West Wing.

He needs to do what his erstwhile co-head Ramaswamy did, make himself disappear.

FakeNoose

(36,541 posts)
4. Mary Trump refers to this article about Susie Wiles that was in the Daily Mail, yesterday
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 11:51 AM
Jan 26
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14323973/Donald-Trump-Susie-Wiles-chief-staff-takedown-Elon-Musk.html

Musk was reportedly pushing for his own room just yards from the Oval Office but his DOGE team will instead be based in the Eisenhower building, which is across the road from the White House.

The chief administrator of DOGE must also report to Wiles, a sign of her control over the White House.

Experts believe Wiles, who ran Trump's 2016 and 2020 Florida campaigns successfully, has what it takes to handle the president.

'She has an abundance of charm and she'll need every bit of it to survive this job,' said Chris Whipple, author of a book on the 2024 Trump campaign, noting that there were four chiefs of staff in Trump's first term.
- more at link -

Poor Elon will have a ... (shudder) ... woman boss. And no office in the West Wing either.

lonely bird

(2,080 posts)
11. If he is not close to Trump on a daily basis...
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 02:02 PM
Jan 26

I would be unsurprised if he gets bored and dumps the whole DOGE bullshit.

angrychair

(10,139 posts)
6. Fascinating
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 01:29 PM
Jan 26

Looks like Susie Wiles days are now numbered.
Anyone that doesn't realize this is eLoon's show now are kidding themselves.
While I hate the air that guy breaths, he is a level of wealth, at least on paper, that we cannot begin to comprehend. He is as rich as Bezos, Zuckerberg and Ellison combined (roughly, their combined wealth is a little more but not materially so).

If you think TSF will ignore that then you haven't been paying attention as to what drives the man.

Mark my words: Wiles will be gone in the next couple months unless she completely subjugates herself to eLoon.

speak easy

(11,165 posts)
9. "Looks like Susie Wiles days are now numbered." Umm ... No.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 01:50 PM
Jan 26

Wiles has been with Trump for more than three years now. By all accounts she stays out of his way and chooses her moment to strike.

Attilatheblond

(5,058 posts)
7. Off topic, but would like to ask Mary Trump if her uncle Donald was in an incubator as a newborn
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jan 26

Been thinking of the 'unbonded' child aspect of premature newborns placed in incubators and touched as little as possible years ago. It would explain a lot about his anti-social behaviors.

FakeNoose

(36,541 posts)
13. It's not likely, but I don't know for sure
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 02:48 PM
Jan 26

There weren't many incubator babies in 1948.

Neither of Chump's parents were very nurturing towards any of their children. That's what I've gathered from the articles and books that I've read about the Chump family.

birdographer

(2,680 posts)
8. Elon is insane
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 01:45 PM
Jan 26

This is what happens at that level of wealth. Funny state—when you have everything, you have nothing. He has nowhere to go, nothing to live for, no possibility of ever having a friend whose agenda he could trust, no dreams or aspirations because he can simply immediately buy whatever those are. There is no challenge to life, no fun, no feeling of accomplishment, no job or purpose, certainly no happiness. He has NOTHING. And humans are not wired to work that way. He is probably vaguely entertained by interfering with nations’ elections, but what’s the point? He can buy every single person involved, and if they resist, he can buy someone to get rid of them. He is so far removed from reality, and he will never be able to get back because he just makes more money every day. He has no life, and I think on some level he knows this. And it has made him insane.

Don’t get me wrong—I don’t feel sorry for him; I find him pathetic. Mostly he disgusts me. He could feed every starving area in the world, eliminate world hunger, and it would not make a dent in his bank account. But when you have no happiness, the last thing you want is to make someone else happy.

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