Comedian and four-time Saturday Night Live guest host Chris Rock touched on several current events in his monologue, at one point previewing how the next Trump administration will carry out deportations with the help of MAGA devotee Elon Musk. First, though, Rock took issue with complaints about Trump being “undignified” …
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Donald Trump is rewarding many of his donors with important roles in his upcoming administration. Almost three dozen people tapped to serve in his White House donated to his campaign or to groups that supported his election, according to a CNN analysis of federal campaign records. A dozen of Biden’s …
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President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition team has recommended the elimination of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule about collecting data from crashes of cars equipped with automated driving systems, according to a document reviewed by Reuters. It just so happens that Tesla — whose CEO, Elon Musk, spent roughly a …
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On Thursday evening, President-elect Donald Trump once again took to Truth Social to announce a hire for his incoming administration: David O. Sacks, he wrote, would fill the newly created role of “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar,” and work to make the U.S. “the clear global leader in both …
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In an election cycle where billionaires flooded the race with hundreds of millions in cash to support their preferred candidates, apparently no one spent more than Elon Musk, who donated a grand total of $239 million to America PAC, a Super PAC he initially formed to support Donald Trump. Musk …
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Trumpian rich boys Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have become quite chummy since being gifted positions as powerful unelected bureaucrats influencing the finances of the federal government — but things weren’t always this friendly. According to recordings and social media posts obtained by CNN’s K-File, Ramswamy once described Musk, the …
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Donald Trump has to wait another month and a half until he can start issuing executive orders as president. But DOGE, his newly announced and nebulously defined Department of Government Efficiency, spearheaded by businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is already up and running — at least as a social …
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They may not agree on much, but when it comes to Pentagon spending, Sen. Bernie Sanders and billionaire Elon Musk are aligned. Sanders, who usually makes enemies of billionaires like Musk, posted on X Sunday, “Elon Musk is right. The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its …
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Elon Musk has taken to posting the identities of relatively unknown government officials and federal workers whose jobs he wants to eliminate, and his followers are taking it upon themselves to harass and threaten those they can find. Following a series of posts from Musk earlier this week highlighting the …
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In the two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he managed to kill its value, hemorrhage huge swaths of revenue, alienated its advertisers, and triggered a user exodus to alternative platforms. Today, users on X — the artist formerly known as Twitter — can expect to encounter a right-wing sinkhole …
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