Don’t you just love it when the world’s most powerful man does an infomercial for the world’s richest man despite hating EVs?
Photo-Op Infomercial for Tesla
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump, Hater of EVs, Says He’s Buying a Tesla
Joe Biden held himself out as the most climate-friendly president ever to hold office, but relished his gas-guzzling Corvette Stingray. President Trump wants to drill-baby-drill and, on Tuesday, was in the market for an electric vehicle.
Trump didn’t just want any electric vehicle. He was on a mission to purchase a Tesla—a sop to his adviser Elon Musk, who happens to be the car company’s chief executive. Trump campaigned extensively against Biden’s electric vehicle mandates and in February moved to pause the construction of charging-station infrastructure.
The scene Tuesday was notable in other ways: It showed the most powerful man in the world lending support to the richest man in the world. Other presidents have used cars as props—though not to prop up the fortunes of their staff.
On Tuesday at the White House, a silver Cybertruck glistened in the sun for the president to inspect. But Trump folded his 6-foot-3-inch frame into a red Tesla sedan with Musk standing nearby. “Watch the Secret Service go crazy,” Trump said.
“If you actually drove it around, it would really be wild,” Musk observed, and then entered the vehicle on the passenger side.
“Wow. That’s beautiful,” Trump gushed as he appraised a computer panel near the steering wheel. He didn’t drive the car, but he said it was the one he would buy.
Musk admitted this week that his D.C. job is causing strain elsewhere. Asked by Fox Business host Larry Kudlow about how he is managing to run his businesses while slashing the federal government, he deadpanned: “With great difficulty.”
Trump, pressed Tuesday by a reporter about when Musk would depart government service, said the topic had been on his mind. “I think he’ll know when it’s time,” he said.
Musk offered a diplomatic response: “I’ll stay as long as it’s useful and I’m productive.”
Trump, who frequently brags about his prowess as a negotiator, said he wasn’t looking for a deal on a Tesla. “I’m president,” he said, “so I want to pay full price.”
Where Will Trump Drive the Tesla?
Perhaps nowhere because the Secret Service won’t allow that except in controlled situations, and never on public roads.
Maybe he tools around the rose garden or something. But his staff will get to drive it.
Tesla and Elon Musk Had a Very Bad Day, More Bad Days Coming
Yesterday, I noted Tesla and Elon Musk Had a Very Bad Day, More Bad Days Coming
Are you cheering? Many are?
Trump Collects $50 Million in Donations from Crypto Executives
Also note Trump Collects $50 Million in Donations from Crypto Executives
What Trump once described as a scam is now a glorious opportunity.
Questions of the Day
Will this infomercial help, hurt, or do nothing for Tesla sales?
Will Trump change his mind on halting EV tax credits?
A rather silly photo op, and advertisement, yet really nothing of consequence. DOGE is exposing some very substantial corruption. That it is being resisted, sometimes with success (hopefully temporary) is predictable. I admire the fact Musk is prepared to lose money in pursuit of a needed political goal. If only more wealthy individuals were like that.
Say what you want, November 6’s alternative was the end of the constitutional republic.
That train has already left the station in the 1860s.
Ilan lost billions in March. The more they mock the more he cuts. He will shave trillions out of the gov budget.
Isn’t he supposed to buy a red 2-seat CONVERTIBLE at his age?
Charlatan for EV. HMMMM?
Biden promoted a lot of cars. He had them all lined up in front of the stage in 2020. He also promoted his own car his Daddy gave him. A gas gussling Vett despite also bashing gas cars. Trump does damn near the same thing and pearls start bouncing all over the floor…meh.
The Cyber truck is a nice car. Impractical but so was the Delorean. The Delorean did have better stainless steel from what I’ve heard. Cyber truck, some are saying the stainless steel is already rusting. Likely true. It’s a thinner sheet metal. Delorean, I don’t recall ever hearing about rust.
Sanewashing Musk and Trump by now requires a 24/7 effort. Those two guys really lost it.
So he threw a bone to one of his staff… Wow, such big news.
Got any real news, like when will AOC be going to jail? When her counter parts in crime will be joining her? You know, Actual crimes with actual consequences…
AOC is kind of irritating, but she hasn’t actually committed a crime.
She donated $5 to Trump’s campaign. So she can get away with murder now.
I’ll bet Trump has been doing stuff like that for clients for his entire career. It’s all part of doing business with the rich and powerful.
Does Musk get a free hall pass on the steel and aluminum tariffs? Does he get credited by paying in $TRUMP or MELANIA tokens to the “strategic crypto reserve”? Will he wear the golden sneakers?
No, but if he keeps kicking butt at his job, he will likely keep that indefinitely…
Two words…… Banana Republic.
Ukraine certainly is… I agree!
That’s the best you can do for a snarky reply? Pathetic…..
I was serious?
Woodsie,
You’re 50 days or so behind schedule on your prognosis.
Not at this latitude 🙂
Ron Baron sold his Tesla shares.
Is that the same Ron Baron that Bob Brinker talked about 35 years ago?
Wall street pay the doomsday industry to go full steam, to scare, in order to buy at wholesale prices from the weak hands. The dems are mocking Trump’s first one hundred days. First they mock, then they attack, before losing the tariffs war against Trump.
inflation is down !
The Democrats aren’t fighting a tariff war. They are happy to hand outsized profits to steel and aluminum manufacturers and support their labor unions. Tariffs are a leftist policy.
Trump & his 2nd Lieutenant driving around in a Tesla: AWESOME!
Musk, hurry up & drop the Tesla Q & get a solid-state battery out the door.
Might I recommend buying Solid Power? I’d love to see my position shoot through the roof for the “good of America” ; )
I doubt Trump can even drive a car, complete BS.
That’s why he got the self driving Tesla!
I had a MY on order then someone hacked my account through this blog and stole all my money!
Don’t be commenting here unless you are willing and able to lose everything in your on line accounts.
Fortunately I had my super sleuth gy-normass nut sackiest root, root, and root some more.
Gy nor masss ball sack was able to recover everything and even found a cache of ketamine!
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Shout out to the big trumponion for the inside information on tariffs threats!
I’ve doubled my real net worth the last few sessions shorting!
Feel a little bit sad for Martha Stewart, little bit, only…
Then, just because I’m a genius USAID called and offered me all that peanut paste at ten cents on the dollar!
Made one call and sold it for triple what those government leeches were selling it for to those starving kids.
Don’t fret, I’m going to use the profits to send cyber trucks to Ukraine to haul the rare earth minerals?
Anyway, don’t post here what you can’t afford to lose.
Like gambling…
I can’t tell which parts of this comment are tongue-in-cheek, and which are things that might be regarded as serious, and I mean (just maybe as) legally consequential, including, for the commenter. And this comment is of mine not tongue-in-cheek, it is straight-faced. A serious claim implying this site has inadequate security resulting in pecuniary loss — wow, if I were you, I would think about that, or perhaps ask a lawyer about it. (If it were true, perhaps the proprietor should consider a cybersecurity review, but if so, why are all the jokes mixed in?) I say this in friendly positive seriousness. It’s very murky, as is.
It’s just that the mix of imaginative satire with this particular content is, to me, and I’m just a random ordinary fool (not presenting myself as an expert), confusing, and capable of misunderstanding. I mean, in what seems a very unfunny legal sort. So what is it? if there are facts, what are they particularly, but is it appropriate anyway to vent that here widely, in some obscure vague humorous post? Is the point that Musk is bad, or that somebody allegedly actually ripped you off through this site? Why stir up both in such a veiled and imprecise manner?
Woops. The question next week or month is which companies will default.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/growing-fears-corporate-defaults-hit-211304652.html
Hey, if I could afford to buy one as a sort of toy for pleasure driving I would buy one in a flash. They are a great car. Why do liberals sneer and make personal comments about anyone who is different from them?
I think e.v. mandates are terrible. Doesn’t mean I won’t drive an electric car if one is provided. I think mandated reliance on renewables is terrible but that doesn’t mean I feel the need to express extreme contempt for anyone who uses and enjoys a product that is powered somehow by renewables.
Same here and they’re fast as hell. I think the entire story is funny as can be. Reminded of what could have been had the passage of time encumbered us with the election of Kamala I’ll take Trump and his idiosyncrasies any day of the week tariffs or no tariffs.
I think Trump is infatuated with Musk because he wishes that Musk was one of his spawn.
Sorry Don & Eric. LOSERS!
Trump looks more idiotic than Biden. Which is really a very difficult thing to achieve.
For what needs to be done he should drive a 1958 red Plymouth Fury with a customized white top – on fire.
Trump couldn’t do any more damage to Tesla sales than what Elon has already done. Might stimulate some sales but it’s not really a working class vehicle lineup.
A Tesla used to be a thing of leftist virtue signaling. Has it changed sign and is now of MAGA virtue signaling?
Solely depends on who you voted for.
If he says he is buying one, does that mean he won’t buy one?
How is any of that legal? Doing an advertising pitch for your biggest campaign contributor at the white house??
There didn’t seem to be an issue renting rooms in the White House in the 1990s, surely pitching an American-made automobile is less offensive. 😉
You’re talking about a conspiracy theory – I’m talking about something that’s on camera and broadcast on the news.
What theory? There is no theory. Much like $1,000/plate dinners it was designed to generate “donations” in those dark days before PACs. Not sure why you don’t know this.
https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/02/26/clinton.lincoln/
Why didn’t you ask Biden that?
I guess Trump is playing tough guy in the face of incendiary attacks being made on Teslas.
I must say a red Tesla goes well with yellow and orange flames.
No conflicts of interest?
That’s only when the other guy does it 🙂
Go Figure VLVLY Stock ADR has doubled since Mutha-Trucker-Trump Photo-Op:
On March 23, 2017, President Donald Trump sat in the cab of a Mack truck, specifically a Mack 18-wheeler, during an event with trucking industry representatives at the White House. The truck was parked on the South Lawn as part of a meeting with members of the American Trucking Associations to discuss healthcare and other issues affecting the trucking industry.
Mack Trucks is currently owned by the Volvo Group, a Swedish multinational manufacturing company. Volvo acquired Mack Trucks in 2000 as part of its purchase of Renault VI, which had previously owned Mack Trucks since 1990.
Any here see Tesla doubles in less than 7 years? VLVLY actually lost value in 2020 and fell 35% BELOW it’s 2017 price only to recover from 11’s to close at 31.56 today.
Huh – Joe Biden had an EV Jeep a few years back on the White House grounds
You sure it wasn’t his electric wheelchair?
Did Joe have a Jeep CEO gleefully redoing the regulators with a buzz saw? I missed that part.
The irony of EV hating MAGA watching their cult leader sitting in and buying an EV. If this were a soap opera it would be unbelievable but life is stranger than fiction.
I guess it’s important one billionaire take care of another. The other irony here is I doubt EV hating MAGA will go out and buy Teslas and the left will hate trump and elon even more so it’s lose-lose for trump/elon.
I see daily news reports of vandalism/swastikas attacks on Teslas and their owners and I expect that to escalate to outright violence soon enough although that’s already happened.
Once again, the logical inconsistency rears it’s ugly head with these folks.
Of course the Democrat’s goons (AntiFa) will cause more vandalism and eventually will resort to violence.
They have billions in grant money from the Birdbrain Biden administration that will finance protests, vandalism, violence, and riots through their “pass-throughs and middle men” like Stacey Abrams non profits as well as Act Blue and Bend the Arc.
AD….
Please read my comments above!
There are a lot of evil summ of bee ah chahs out in cyber gray land looking to pilfer your loot.
Fortunately for me I’ve not had two nickels to rub together since the missus divorced me for cabana man…
Point is, fascism is not good, look it up.
Dems be looting, pubs be looting, independent be looting, libertarians be looting anarchist be looting, commies be looting.
If you aren’t looting your not trying.
Calm the hale down.