Is Donald Trump Afraid of Elon Musk?
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The president has long operated without anything resembling worry when it comes to appointments or executive action, but as his most powerful—and richest—political ally chainsaws his way through the federal government, some observers wonder if Trump might be tasting his own medicine.

Summary

Elon Musk has amassed significant power in Trump’s White House, leading DOGE and embedding his tech team into federal systems.

Musk is using his X account like a personal White House pressroom podium to dominate the news cycle, pushing conspiracies and undermining Trump’s announcements.

Ironically, Trump now struggles to control Musk, who is doing to Trump what Trump did to the GOP—pushing limits and amassing a devoted fan base. Trump knows that Musk is willing to out-crazy him.

While Trump tolerates him for now, tensions may rise as Musk’s influence grows.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    9 小时前

    This creation of a fake world (or model) to manage instead of dealing with the real problems of a complex, real one is such an interesting take on how modern systems work.

    I’m starting to think that the complexities of even dealing with real people and their actual views on the Internet were too much for the broligarchs to manage, for instance, and that’s why they’re obsessed with AI.

    If you can replace the real Internet with one composed of strictly bots talking to each other, you’ve created a facsimile of the Internet that’s easier to control and manage.