Trump+Musk: Folie à Deux - Trump thread #137

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The clock is already ticking and he's an old man. Mid-terms: November 3, 2026

Thanks to @AcrossThePond55 for the thread title.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5206120-the-grown-ups-have-left-the-building-trump-thread-136

There’s so much to cover that TRIP US are stepping up to 2 episodes a week from next week!

He is biggly hurt

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhm5ntzd2i2r

REPORTER: Do you have a reaction to the new Time Magazine cover that has Elon Musk sitting behind your resolute desk?

TRUMP: No. Is Time Magazine still in business? I didn't even know that. Elon is doing a great job.

Unfortunately I think all the hate for Musk is having the effect of getting Scrotus' back up and making him defensive about his being butt-buddies with Musk. He's that way, show him more and more how wrong he is and he'll only shout louder that he's right.

I don't know what it'll take, if there is anything, that will make Scrotus admit that he was wrong in attaching himself to Musk. It'd have to be something intensely personal though, like Musk banging Melania.

I'm not sure Trump considers Melania personal. More a possession.

Musk driving a cyber truck across the green at Mar a Lago and churning it up doing doughnuts would hurt him more than anything with Melania.

Oh sure he can never admit he's wrong.

But that never hinders him flushing his enablers down the toilet. "Musk? Never met the guy. Don't know who that is."

Trump even sacked Bannon last time round (though is still his plaything, of course).

😂

https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lhmffmg62s2b

BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.”

EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!!

Okaaaay...

Wait for the Empire State Building to be renamed Trump Tower Two or Lake Mead to be renamed Lake Donald.

you read it here first, folks

They're renaming in Wales national parks. Trouble is no-one visiting can spell or pronounce them. Nor can most local residents.

It's not popular.

I think we should rename Mumsnet, I personally don't like the name Mumsnet and I don't think it adequately reflects the content.
Bunfightnet? Arguerelativelypoitelyweb? Opinionatedtwats.com? 😂
Suggestions welcomed.

@heldinadream I'm all for Opinionatedtwats.com

@justasking111 I can speak a little bit of Welsh (both Grans) but I'm sticking with Snowdon...at least it's descriptive in the winter.

I think taking the US takeover into account, surely it should be Momsnet?

The second amendment is a crock.

Apparently this is real, anyone who can confirm?

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-signs-executive-order-to-promote-the-resettlement-of-afrikaner-refugees-in-the-u-s/

(Lot of valuable minerals in South Africa)

Sorry, what was the question ?

So musk dodged national service?

I have read this elsewhere, can't remember where. I also read that when apartheid was abolished, Musk immediately left SAfrica.

I have to say, and I am not likening this to all white south africans.... we have travelled a lot and the very worst racism I have observed was from a couple of white south africans. Absolutely shocking, disgusting stuff and I've never forgotten it.

Really interesting podcast for anyone interested - Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on Musk.

I've been wondering in recent days if he's bipolar as his behaviour is similar, on a much larger scale, to the two people I've known during manic episodes. Kara seems to touch on that

I have to say, and I am not likening this to all white south africans.... we have travelled a lot and the very worst racism I have observed was from a couple of white south africans. Absolutely shocking, disgusting stuff and I've never forgotten it.

I don't recall any pushback when this was aired. Which makes you wonder how many people thought it was true.

I've been wondering in recent days if he's bipolar

Which is an adjective, not a noun and no excuse for being the word that it so naturally precedes, which is "cunt" - and that is a noun.

Not renaming, promoting the Welsh name.

According to Wikipedia he left SA in 1989 for Canada to avoid the draft in SA

Mandela was freed in 1990 as the government thought he was dying of TB and didn't want him to die a martyr in prison. Apartheid didn't really end until the elections 1994/5

So IDK

😂

That's his Welsh name

I’m sorry, I don’t understand.

It's a joke about Snowden now being called by it's un-pronounceable Welsh name Wylfa

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