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Donald Trump is Loving This

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Donald Trump is Loving This

He's traded the fleeting pleasure of tweeting for the fleeting pleasure of being wooed by the world's richest man.

Rafi Schwartz
Nov 22, 2022
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Donald Trump is Loving This

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Elon Musk’s big bucks takeover of Twitter.com has not, shall we say, gone well. It’s been the corporate equivalent of catapulting a flaming porta-potty into another flaming porta-potty and then using their smoldering remains as a third, different porta-potty. There are many, many examples of how terribly Musk’s whole enterprise is going. To me, however, he most concrete example came on Saturday, when the beep boop car man invited former President Donald Trump back onto his favorite platform, reversing a ban that came down after Trump used it to foment a violent insurrection. It’s a hail mary move from a guy without any plan for success beyond cheap stunts couched in the sniveling Reddit framework of “lolz.”

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Elon Musk @elonmusk
The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
Reinstate former President Trump
12:53 AM ∙ Nov 20, 2022
954,855Likes129,027Retweets

Surprisingly — uncharacteristically even — Trump hasn’t taken the bait.

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