Tesla stock took a beating on Monday, plummeting more than 15 percent in its worst single-day performance in years, a sell-off precipitated by both a market downturn and a rising tide of resentment over CEO Elon Musk‘s gleeful destruction of federal government agencies. But Donald Trump is looking out for …
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Comedian and actor Bill Burr fired at Elon Musk, calling him “evidently a Nazi,” and criticized liberals for their lack of response to the tech giant’s political influence, on an episode of NPR‘s Fresh Air Monday. “I’m trying to get regular people to stop yelling at each other and realize …
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the head of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wants massive cuts to America’s core safety-net programs. “Reports don’t mean anything, you’ve got to actually take action,” Musk said in an interview today on Fox Business Network, explaining that his goal …
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Under the guise of efficiency, Donald Trump’s administration is dismantling the agency that runs Social Security, threatening benefits that keep millions of Americans out of poverty and setting up a political gamble for the White House and congressional Republicans. Social Security Administration (SSA) insiders and its former commissioner, Martin O’Malley, …
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When I left the military, like so many veterans before me, I believed in the promise of America. I had served my country, was deployed in support of two wars, and was ready to build a future — one that included a stable job, a home, and the security that …
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Today, Elon Musk‘s X feed offered the usual mix of paranoid politics, attacks on Democrats and government agencies, and content from accounts affiliated with President Donald Trump (who still prefers his own web platform, Truth Social). But mixed in were a number of posts about Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer …
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Elon Musk is using his position within the Trump administration to funnel lucrative federal contracts to his companies. The president’s family is reportedly cashing in, too. According to a Monday report from Bloomberg, Donald Trump Jr. — the president’s eldest son — has invested $50 million into SpaceX and xAI …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Donald Trump tried to resolve tensions between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio, while using the opportunity to insult them both. Trump (James Austin Johnson) first summoned Secretary of State Rubio (Marcello Hernandez) to the Oval Office, where he told the former Florida senator that he’s been doing …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed Donald Trump‘s speech to a joint session of Congress this week, his sudden eversal on tariffs he had imposed on Canada and Mexico, and the failed test flight by Elon Musk‘s SpaceX. “President Trump addressed ajoint session of Congress andclaimed that no president haschanged …
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President Donald Trump perpetuated and expanded on a lie he told during his joint address to Congress where he claimed the Biden administration spent millions of dollars on scientific research to make mice transgender. Trump in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that aired today said that the head …
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