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Norms no longer matter.
Elon Musk
Buying electric cars to own the libs.
The stock price of Tesla, the driving force of Elon Musk’s wealth, has been stinky of late, dropping nearly half since its peak at the end of 2024. We are not financial experts, but we’d expect this is related to the company’s CEO being distracted by his efforts to destroy the United States federal government and the transatlantic alliance, which have made him one of the most consequentially unlikable people in the world. As a show of support for Musk’s net worth slipping to a lower rung of hundreds of billions of dollars, then, Trump put on a Tesla car show at the White House. With five Tesla vehicles sitting before the White House, Trump got into one, and observed that “this is a different panel than I've ever—everything's computer.” Neat. May we say—would it exhaust you if we said?—that this was wildly corrupt? Eight years ago, a Trump adviser was sharply criticized for saying in a TV interview at the White House that people should “buy Ivanka’s stuff.” Here, the president is doing a commercial press conference for an administration member, at the White House, to juice his company’s stock price. And it was probably the 10th-craziest thing to happen that day. It’s unusual how richly detailed and lengthy this dream about a second Trump presidency is becoming. Slate's "The Surge"
