Tech tycoon Elon Musk joined a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the day after the presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
nice, a five year old participating in diplomacy regarding nation destroying wars. what could go wrong.
He paid for Ukraine’s StarLink connections that he shuts off when Musk feels like it, and the incoming president who will shut off aid when Musk feels like it.
I guess we now know who will really hold power in the oval office. Spoiler: it’s not Trump
Since when do we allow regular civilians to participate in diplomatic calls?
Since the US bacame an oligarchy.
It’s almost like a member of Trump’s cabinet was sentenced to prison for doing that exact thing between Trump’s 2016 election and taking office.
It’s beyond naive to call Elon a regular civilian
Yeah, he’s an illegal immigrant, get it right.
My point was to point out he’s not part of the government
Neither is Trump. However Elon can still become part of Trump’s future cabinet.
When you have a president that dgaf about anything saying otherwise.
Since they have over $200 billion dollars
So pay to play is back.
It left?
Ukraine is f*cked now and soon Europe too.
Technically, a lot of NATO countries still have nukes. So they might be half as fucked.
This is bad
My prediction is Zelenasky will call for an ellection allowing Trump to fund the war without looking weak after the shut he said about Zelenasky.
It is a real possibility since iran and russia are working together and trump backs israel against iran. The logical next step is to back ukraine againts russia.
That’s a very uninformed thing to say. Trump is beholden to Putin.
I wouldnt be too sure of that. Trump is a businessman who will take what he can and give back as little as possible. Trump got the presidency why honour any agreement with putin?
Because Trump is a narcissist and Putin has dirt on him.
He admires Putin. Just watch.
Imagine putin started setting his trolls on the agenda of whatever kompromat they have on trump. I imagine it’s a lot. That would definitely make trump mad. First and foremost he protects his ego.
Hilarious that his administration is already leaking worse than a Russian submarine.
So Trump and Vance are outsourcing their jobs to Musk…?
Not a surprise knowing Trump these days.
Musk’s whole “slash government spending” schtick is such a farce. Tesla wouldn’t have domestic manufacturing facilities without a DOE loan. SpaceX survives off of government contracts.
Oh that never includes the donor class.
The NPR article goes into this. Elon likely will award himself money without oversight while cutting programs like NPR and the SEC and other regulatory bodies etc.
Slash Social Security, add EV subsidies, make them so that only Tesla qualifies in practice.
Slash government funding for everything except the socialism for the rich.
Doesn’t he have like ten companies to run… into the ground?
The companies might do better if he’s there less to make decisions for them.
Zelensky deserves better than these hosers
Maybe Germany France Italy Spain Sweden Finland Poland … and the UK could step up?
I mean let me dream a little.
Germany, LMAO. Didn’t they have their lips around putin’s pipe that got blown up?
I bet the “russia is a trade partner” shtick will come back real soon.
If others followed UK donations, this wouldn’t be a problem.
I wonder if this will make it into the Senate Confirmation Hearings when Trump makes him Secretary of Making Things Worse Before They Get Better. (Or maybe they are smart enough to not give him a job that requires Congressional approval…)
“Look honey, the clown show already started.”
