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Unfortunately, the optics of this could suggest that Trump fundamentally disagrees with Musk — or at best, is visibly indifferent to Americans receiving the Social Security they deserve,
In this moment, Musk uses his son as a vehicle to justify his own discomfort,
He should not be in public like this.”
Even the child’s mother, Canadian pop singer Grimes, criticized Musk for taking their son to the Oval Office press conference, writing on X, formerly Twitter Trump’s look of overt anger on his face, tilted shoulder placement that shows displeasure, while he seems to have to sit there and take it,
she said about the president’s overall demeanor Trump’s body language says that he was not in favor of having a kid attending his important press conference,
However, I think Trump is annoyed,
If you can have the wealthiest person on the planet in a room, standing with their child, still wearing their coats and hat, then clearly, you are the more powerful one,
He nods his head in agreement at semi-appropriate moments, but he mostly just sits there with his hands folded,
Musk wearing a T-shirt, coat and a cap shows he doesn’t feel a need to dress up or honor Trump by wearing professional clothing,
Musk standing behind him, making Trump have to turn around awkwardly to interact, immediately reduces Trump’s power,
This is one of the few times when Trump looks at the camera, intertwines his fingers, looks at the camera again, frowns, wiggles around a little, and then starts looking back at Musk,
Of course we're going to honor our NATO commitments."
During the campaign, Vice President JD Vance told NBC'sKristen Welker I always wondered why NATO continued to exist even though its nemesis and reason to exist, The Warsaw Pact, had dissolved,
Musk wrote in March, 2024, referencing the Cold War military alliance signed in 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern Bloc countries as a counterbalance to NATO NATO needs an overhaul, ... The Cold War is over. NATO's anachronistic."
Musk posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday, in response to Republican Senator Mike Lee writing Why should America, the European 'emergency contact number' for the past century, listen to self-righteous and impotent nations asking us to honor outdated and one-sided defense arrangements they no longer live up to?"
We can cut the budget deficit in half from $2 trillion to $1 trillion and with deregulation, because there are a lot of regulations that don't serve the public good,
We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X and to the DOGE website,
If you look at say, say Treasury, for example, basic controls that should be in place, that are in place in any company, such as making sure that any given payment has a payment categorization code, that there is a comment field that describes the payment,
There was briefly an error that provided Mr. Elez read/write access to the [Secure Payment System], but Mr. Elez did not access that system during that time, and was likely unaware that he had any such read/write access,
You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
Elez resigned from DOGE the following day after The Wall Street Journal reported on his racist social-media page, now deleted, on which he wrote in September 2024
