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Trump: MAGAs, Tariffs Are Great! Elon Musk: …?? Erm, I Need An Exemption For Tesler & SpaceX
Trump To Elon: Fall. Back. YOUUU …!
Almost immediately after Trump announced his tariff plans, Elon Musk filed for exemptions on behalf of Tesla and SpaceX because both companies have to import components from countries like China. It’s almost as if these tariffs are ‘great’ for everyone else except the richest man in the world.
Over the weekend, Elon Musk met with Donald Trump on multiple occasions to personally urge him to roll back his tariff plans, only for Trump to double down the very next day. Elon Musk, in all his wisdom, broke the first rule in politics for dummies: NEVER trust a ‘conservative.’
What an amateur!
Musk appears to be having a hard time making the same financial sacrifices he’s been asking regular Americans to make as he was taking their jobs, gutting their government assistance programs while bragging about how efficient that was.
He will have to learn the hard way how to make that sacrifice or, better yet, learn to cope like the MAGAs whom Trump can make homeless this very second, only for them to come back and thank him for allowing them to ‘get in touch with nature.’
