NEW: Elon Musk's takeover is causing rifts in Donald Trump's inner circle. “He’s getting too big for his britches,” says one Trump world source. read @jakelahut.writes.news: - ThreadSky

leahfeiger.bsky.social • 17 days ago

NEW: Elon Musk's takeover is causing rifts in Donald Trump's inner circle. “He’s getting too big for his britches,” says one Trump world source.

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muskophobic.bsky.social•16 days ago

What happened to Steve Bannon’s threat to bring down Musk? Come to think of it, what’s happened to Bannon? Has he been arrested by the DOGE babies? Or quietly paid off?

placitas03.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'll believe it when I see it. Otherwise, just trying to tamp down the opposition.

cooper.bike•17 days ago

Mom, the billionaires are fighting!

raffles8.bsky.social•17 days ago

Inevitable …..

derflo.bsky.social•17 days ago

That source better stay away from upper floor windows

alilnightmusing.bsky.social•17 days ago

“This staffer, like others, requested anonymity to relay sensitive conversations due to fears of retaliation.”

Yeah, that’s not the king of thing we’re used to hearing here.

alilnightmusing.bsky.social•17 days ago

Enjoying our new President yet, Kenya?

alilnightmusing.bsky.social•17 days ago

Because I’m not an evil person, I won’t wish upon you the same fate you apparently wished upon us.

brittexkavi.bsky.social•17 days ago

I’ve been using GOP points with my GOP reps. Call them & ask why an unelected 19 yr old has more power than they do. Than Congress. Ask if they’re worried about their jobs. We need to slow them down, plant seeds of doubt. They only care about themselves. We can use this.

alilnightmusing.bsky.social•16 days ago

Excellent strategy.

danielaphoto.bsky.social•17 days ago

Great talking points

brittexkavi.bsky.social•17 days ago

Thank you. I started calling my Reps last week & think there’s something here. I haven’t been bringing up Trump, just Elon. On Monday I began asking if they’re worried that Musk & teenage hackers have their banking info & SS number.

danielaphoto.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is such a good idea

brittexkavi.bsky.social•17 days ago

Thank you! I can tell you right now that not enough people are calling Ted Cruz. Last wk was the 1st time I’d ever called his office & I’m still getting through way too easily. If he doesn’t have any power, it’ll hit him financially.

ner430.bsky.social•17 days ago

What you doing is great-- thank you! I've been wondering about an appeal to libertarians like Rand Paul using privacy and government overreach arguments. What do you think?

andreakremer.bsky.social•17 days ago

He's got an entirely different agenda, for which Trump was a convenient Trojan horse.

colwildotcom.bsky.social•17 days ago

Question is is Trump using Musk, is Musk using Trump or both.

autochthonia.bsky.social•16 days ago

I've fully expected Trump to let Musk run until he goes out of bounds somehow, then cut him loose, then pin any negative fallout on him.

colwildotcom.bsky.social•16 days ago

There's nothing stopping him from saying "oh I didn't authorise Musk to do that" then suddenly Elon is in a world of trouble.

autochthonia.bsky.social•16 days ago

Exactly. I expect that's why he's letting Musk, who can't think more than one move ahead, to charge in and do all this shit. Even if T is happy with what's happening, I think he'll be selective in what he publicly takes credit for. Win-win for him, Elon soaks the blame, and maybe legal liability.

colwildotcom.bsky.social•14 days ago

Deffo Trumps playbook. Have a stooge that does all the dirty work, and then if it falls apart deny all knowledge and walk away...

goldengirlswhit.bsky.social•17 days ago

Both

alilnightmusing.bsky.social•16 days ago

But Musk is better at it.

Problem is, Tmurp will retaliate the moment he perceives a lack of “loyalty”.

susanjrobinson.bsky.social•16 days ago

By the time Trump realizes that Musk is working for himself and his own agenda, not Trumps, it will be too late and the useful dummy will be no longer needed.

alilnightmusing.bsky.social•16 days ago

Maybe, maybe not. But Tmurp is the elected official here and Leon is merely a stooge. If the legal system (not the DOJ or FBI) gets on it quick enough we have a chance. And the legal system is already on it.

girltalk.bsky.social•17 days ago

Hand them both more rope.

bygonebegotrisk.bsky.social•17 days ago

Whoops! He's already rewritten the code and downloaded the classified information. Oof...

cindylee2102.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is going to be the best season of Survivor yet. 🍿

ecouragement.bsky.social•17 days ago

Who’s the bigger nazi! A new mark burnett reality show hit!

frankieface15.bsky.social•17 days ago

Do these fucking morons understand, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FEED THE FUCKING MONSTER & THINK YOU CAN KEEP HIM UNDER CONTROL!!!

bunky260.bsky.social•17 days ago

Narcissist meet narcissist

origwolfepack.bsky.social•17 days ago

Only a matter of time....fuel that fire 100%

lsbessin.bsky.social•17 days ago

Is this Susan Collins level concerned though

nintyfan1991.bsky.social•17 days ago

Cowards better fucking hold him to that! Do we need to show them Tesla's stock numbers? Because... YIKES! If it took Trump to crash the economy to back off on Canada and Mexico.

singerindy.bsky.social•17 days ago

Musk has a lot of financial info on Republicans now!

macemoneta.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is how Scientology became a tax-free church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

edoggthered.bsky.social•17 days ago

but he's on ozempic his britches should be too big for him, if anything

jacobrodr.bsky.social•17 days ago

lmao where have I seen this before

astill73.bsky.social•17 days ago

📌

tdotopenletter.bsky.social•17 days ago

That's fine, but Elon knows what Trump was doing on Epstein's plane so Trump won't do shit. This is why you don't elect compromised people.

mancalledhorse.bsky.social•17 days ago

The Supreme Court says that Trump can solve any problem he has with Musk with a simple Official Act

back2skating.bsky.social•17 days ago

Well, color me pink.

clafrisa.bsky.social•17 days ago

Donald is a soft old man 🤭

notsleeping9.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yeah but Trump loves this. There won’t be a fallout between Musk and Trump until Trump feels that his minions loyalties are divided.

igneoussigil.bsky.social•17 days ago

Can't wait for them to give him the ol' Tommy DeVito.

knowbetterbebetter.bsky.social•17 days ago

Sure.

kelyetar.bsky.social•17 days ago

Someone with Etsy connections, quick, send Trump a nice WWDPD?* bracelet!

(*what would Daddy Putin do?)

heidichronicles.net•17 days ago

How many Scarammuccis before they break up?

ner430.bsky.social•17 days ago

Keep pressing. Make them have to answer for their actions. Thank you for your investigative reporting.

indigocricket.bsky.social•17 days ago

No shit!

whosjer.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is a feature of authoritarianism/dictators…

storytellerwes.bsky.social•17 days ago

Maybe Trump and what’s his name will end up killing each other and this whole mess will sort itself out

mooneymonkey.bsky.social•17 days ago

Madam president musk

davidkelley718.bsky.social•17 days ago

Smells like kayfabe to me. Not to be more-jaded-than-thou or anything, but we saw this move in the press a lot during the last Trump administration. Those folks love running their palace intrigue pieces and pretending like they’re making a difference in doing so.

drboi11.bsky.social•17 days ago

I mean, yeah. He tried to murder his own VP. Theres a pattern of erratic behavior here.

davidkelley718.bsky.social•17 days ago

That was one of those scary moments where he wasn’t getting that press flattery, where his monstrous behavior was plain to see with the naked eye of all and sundry. And when he isn’t in control, he does seem to lash out in such ways. Another reason I think this article is part of their larger plan.

islandofreil.bsky.social•17 days ago

Possibly.

OTOH, Trump can't stand anybody but him getting the attention (and money).

davidkelley718.bsky.social•17 days ago

Oh, I wouldn’t discount that notion at all. But if Trump were actually enraged by this, I think we’d be seeing more concrete action to yank on the leash or otherwise bring Elon to heel, here. A more coordinated poor-mouthing of Elon on news networks, for starters. Just my two cents.

islandofreil.bsky.social•17 days ago

I guess we have to see what happens.

caramia5.bsky.social•17 days ago

On the other hand Trump did fire a tremendous number of people during his first administration so he does and can turn on people quickly

brute.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yeah but that was the plan. They are pawns. That's how you use pawns. Last time he would use some Thing #1 to do the unpopular stuff and then can their ass to avert the blowback. Then Thing #1 would get pissed because they didn't understand they were pawns. Musk will be the same.

shyduck.bsky.social•17 days ago

The article does state that these internal sources seem to have differing motivations for speaking out, so this isn't necessarily some unified "resistance" movement. It seems some of them while in agreement just find him extremely irritating

damianow.bsky.social•17 days ago

They just worked that out - well done for getting there.

artielazarus.bsky.social•17 days ago

Britches? Can we get Schumer in here to translate?

cjlemire.com•17 days ago

Is that like Malarkey?

artielazarus.bsky.social•17 days ago

Maybe. I did get up to a lot of malarkey in my britches as a young lad. It may have involved a penny farthing.

lainsb2231.bsky.social•17 days ago

Wait so which one will be the dictator? Elon?

djwyszynski.bsky.social•17 days ago

I can hear the Steve Bannon wheeze when a read "britches"

swanmore.bsky.social•17 days ago

He'll be gone by June. But his damage will last for ever.

arkayne242.bsky.social•17 days ago

oh no not rifts

themamu.bsky.social•17 days ago

devinwpgolden.bsky.social•17 days ago

Maybe they'll Julius Caesar him, literally or figuratively🤷‍♂️

nelliedylan.bsky.social•17 days ago

Hey, you buy a fella an election and there will be consequences.

bindlestiff.bsky.social•17 days ago

He’s not helping them achieve their goals; he’s using them to achieve his.

omrush.bsky.social•17 days ago

We all know who holds Trump's leash.

samhufton1.bsky.social•17 days ago

Who still uses the word britches though

ibton.bsky.social•17 days ago

And so it begins....

kimnoreen.bsky.social•16 days ago

But they were OK with him buying head MAGA moron the office of POTUS. GTFO that anybody inside his inner circle cares about anybody or anything.

angryoldbat.bsky.social•17 days ago

Such bold leadership from that inner circle.

neeski23.bsky.social•17 days ago

Getting??

jeffreyclail.com•17 days ago

They're all scared of his money

ngelvy.bsky.social•17 days ago

Musk might be a Nazi, or on drugs, or on his own megalomaniacal power trip or whatever else.

But what he certainly is, is competent and with a knack for surrounding himself with very capable people. SpaceX attests to that. Do not expect this one to trip over his own shoes, sane Americans.