Less than a month into Trump’s second term and theyre launching an Uber for mercenaries. Going great https://t.co/Ho1MFGTEkD
— Fentanyl Tsar (@canderaid) February 18, 2025
Michael Wolff (remember him?) has a new book to sell, which the Guardian just reviewed under the headline “Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner refused to sign memo saying Trump was not antisemitic, book says”. Also included:
… Describing a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in October, where Trump survived an assassination attempt in July, Wolff writes: “And Elon is here, waiting when [Trump’s team] arrive[s], which is cause for a moment of consternation … Elon! Next only to Trump, there is Elon.”
Saying aides viewed Musk as “a new, overwhelming, and discordant presence in the campaign”, generating “an ever-rising tide of bewildering, if not opaque, requests, orders, and recommendations”, Wolff said aides thought Musk had “elevated the Trump campaign in his own mind to a personal mission and religious cause”, while “the Trump circle” was “already anticipating the earth shaking when he and Trump invariably f[e]ll out.
“When they arrive, Elon – wandering about by himself, with only a thin layer of assistants or security – is hungry. This causes a kerfuffle and results in uncertainty over how to attend to him. Someone produces a bag of pretzel sticks.
[What, no juice box?!?]
“The suggestion is made that JD is here and would love to speak to him. Musk, sitting down and eating his pretzel sticks, politely declines: ‘I’ve really no interest in speaking to a vice-president.’
“Later, called onstage, with no one having any idea what he might say, Musk bounds up and, suddenly – in Mick Jagger style, prancing and jumping – becomes the headline, his T-shirt rising far above his midriff.
“What the fuck is wrong with this guy?” says a bewildered Trump. “And why doesn’t his shirt fit?”…
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