• Maeve
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    53 months ago

    Will this be the car he now occupies in the motorcade?

  • @[email protected]
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    53 months ago

    “Donald. I will pay to make you President but you have to give me access to all admin information and buy a car from me.” E-Lawn.

  • @[email protected]
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    363 months ago

    $90k is nothing for these people.

    You have any clue how much Trump is stealing from tax payers? The dude is making a fortune off being president.

  • Lukas Murch
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    523 months ago

    It’ll be auctioned off for $10M to an anonymous Saudi buyer.

    • Lemminary
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      73 months ago

      Honestly, I’m not even mad they’re squandering their money on stupid bullshit.

      • Bob Robertson IX
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        53 months ago

        Except it isn’t stupid bullshit. They are giving the money to musk so that they can get something they want done. This also gives musk more power as he’s able to buy more people.

          • @[email protected]
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            “Anonymously” at an “auction” was the intended implication, I believe. Where in actuality someone is just paid a lot of money in a manner that is harder to trace, and has an air of plausible deniability.

            • Lemminary
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              Omg you’re right, I completely forgot that was a thing for money laundering. Damn. My mistake!

  • IHeartBadCode
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    What’s weird is that Presidents aren’t allowed to drive themselves. Secret service is no doubt impounding that new car until he’s no longer their problem.

    • @[email protected]
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      He actually said this on camera, that he wouldn’t be driving it. But then, he said that he hadn’t driven in a “long time”…

      I don’t think he has a driver’s license.

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        That’s code for he never learned to drive. Whatever polite bullshit you’re used to from other politicians isn’t happening here, so you can safely assume the exact opposite of what he’s saying.

      • @[email protected]
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        He did have a drivers license and was shown driving in 2014 on a video that his wife posted. The license expired in 2020. He probably didn’t renew it, since ex-presidents are also not allowed to drive, so he hasn’t been allowed to drive since 2016.

    • JWBananas
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      163 months ago

      They can, just not on public roads.

      Biden drove an electric Ford truck on a closed lot.

      Obama drove Jerry Seinfeld’s car on the White House grounds.

  • HorikBrun
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    If this were a movie, (that I was writing) The car would glitch and lock Dumpster inside, then burst into flames. He would push the panic button, then look through the smoky windows at fElon laughing demonically, while Dumpster lights-outs coughing and railing against the betrayal, and injustice of it all.

    Fade to black. Cough

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      doesn’t even drive

      It’s more than that. Legally, he’s not even allowed to drive.

      Edit: might not be technically illegal, but disallowed by secret service.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        Legally, he’s not even allowed to drive.

        I think more like the SS advises the president not to drive for their own safety, and to leave it to experts.

        Or as Trump probably sees it: The deep state is being insufficiently loyal and trying to tell him - the president - of all people - what to do. So he totally shouldn’t listen, and should drive if he wants to, and they should fall in line or be fired.

      • bbbbbbbbbbb
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        I think disallowed only out in the public. I think I read that theyre allowed to drive on the whitehouse property, and maybe private institutions like race tracks? I dont recall the specifics

  • Cosmic Cleric
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    293 months ago

    Hearing Trump talk about how the car has ‘computer’ (during the news conference) made me think back to a news event with George H.W. Bush in a supermarket, seeing a grocery barcode scanner for the first time.

    Same kind of inquisitive and excited response from both of them.

    This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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      233 months ago

      Trump did a supermarket thing while out doing his disinformation circuit, and the owner guy was trying to explain things to him and you could tell Trump had never grocery shopped and then quickly lost interest and tuned the guy completely out.

      The McDonald’s fries thing was also amusing when he learned “how fries were made” and that they put them in a basket and not scoop them out by hand lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        103 months ago

        The McDonald’s fries thing was also amusing when he learned “how fries were made” and that they put them in a basket and not scoop them out by hand lol.

        They could have let him learn that the hard way, but no.

      • @[email protected]
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        103 months ago

        Fucker Carlson shopping in Moscow can be put there too since he is another head of the MAGA hydra.

      • @[email protected]
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        Imagine if everyone in the world would just say “fuck no, I am not cooking for you” and the billionaires would die of starvation because they don’t know how to do. Hilarious.

  • LupusBlackfur
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    It’d be such a shame if it caught fire.

    But then, Chump never drives anyway so…

    🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️