Summary
Elon Musk gave Donald Trump a scripted sales pitch during a White House event where Trump inspected Teslas.
Photographers captured Trump holding notes with phrases like “SAFEST car” and “affordable.” The stunt followed a 15% drop in Tesla’s stock, linked to backlash over Musk’s involvement in DOGE.
Trump defended Musk on Truth Social, blaming the decline on a “Radical Left” boycott.
Meanwhile, Musk’s other ventures, including X and SpaceX, are struggling with outages and test failures.
Guys, we all know the truth is that we get certain news promoted more in our feeds based on our activities or where we get our news.
I totally believe this happened and I didn’t notice because my bubble was more worried about trump bullshit.
We must be aware of the fact that polarized social media and algorithms can cause us to miss certain news.
Are people legitimately only getting their news from social media?
Like, you never just go to a news website?
That wasn’t needed with this because it was everywhere and unavoidable at the time, but only getting your news from social media (even tho this was all over social media) is a much bigger issue…
Yes. In an era of expert skepticism and distrust of institutions people turn to “relatable“ personalities for their information. That is a big part of how Trump became president. There are plenty of studies showingthat people get most of their information from social media, whether it’s accountable news outlets or just some jabroni with a TikTok following
It wasn’t as big of deal because Biden isn’t super closely related to Ford in particular like Trump is with Musk and by extension Tesla.
And it was related to a policy initiative, and he didn’t have price notes and feature lists.
“Business that benefits from policy initiative let’s president use their stuff for a photo op during pitch tour” has a very different connotation than “president tries to sell people the car of his backer from the Whitehouse lawn”.
And if we’d have made a big deal about the president doing advertisements for cars back then, Trump might not have done the more crass version.
It’s not just about that.
Biden did things he shouldn’t, to the point of even going around Congress to provide arms to a country that would reasonably be used in a genocide in direct violation of US and international law, but no Dems in office would hold him accountable because the letter by their name matches
Now trump is gonna do a whole lot worse, and Republicans won’t hold him accountable because the letter by their name matches…
Do you not see how this is unsustainable and indicative of a larger issue?
I fully understand everyone is disagreeing with me. I don’t care about down votes.
But does no one honestly understand that this is why 1/3 of the country didn’t vote and Trump is currently president?
We can’t fix shit if we don’t learn the lesson. And I’m tired of class punishment because some of the kids won’t learn the lesson.
Biden did tons wrong I disagree with and will give him crap for every bit of it. But riding around in a Ford to celebrate new EV models being produced wouldn’t make it any higher than maybe #500 on the list.
Then comparing Trump to Biden, nothing Biden has done, with the exception of not dropping out from a second term run, comes close to Trump’s bullshit.
I probably only go to news websites directly when I am curious about specific coverage of a specific event. That only happens once a month or so.
And before you are a dick about it, this is what works for me.