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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Donald Trump Bought a $90,000 Tesla With 37 Recall Notices Against It

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Donald Trump Bought a $90,000 Tesla With 37 Recall Notices Against It

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Here’s hoping Elon Musk won’t have to personally fix President Trump’s new EV anytime soon.
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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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          You know, Don, when a man potato and a woman potato love each other…

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      • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Fucker Carlson shopping in Moscow can be put there too since he is another head of the MAGA hydra.

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          WoW tHeY iNvEnTeD sHoPpInG cArT rEtUrNs

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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.

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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.

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      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.

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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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        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.

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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.

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    Most likely bought with taxpayer money.

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      Russian taxpayer money, yes.

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      Pay? Why would he pay? Does he ever pay for anything?

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        I gladly pay you tomorrow for a Tesla today.

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          Free scrap metal is free scrap metal

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    Proving, once again, what complete fucking idiot he is! <car catches fire behind him >

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    Now he needs to drive around in it while we all absolutely pray for the funniest thing in the world to happen.

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      he isn’t allowed to

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        He isn’t allowed to drive himself, but maybe FSD is a loophole?

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          if only it worked

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            Isnt that a good thing in this case?

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          If he’s not allowed he’s not gonna do it.

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            “But FSD is safer than human drivers!” - Elon Musk

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    Hold on…this could be a good thing…

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      Hes not gonna drive it.

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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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      No seriously please get this script hammered out and get an animator

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      Post credits scene will be fElon taking a seat behind the desk in the oval office.

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        Which suddenly also burst into flames and cut to black almost immediately.

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          Which fades into POV held tied in a carriage with a blond man telling you you’ve been trying to cross the borders…

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      Would be even better if elon were in there with him

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

    But then, Chump never drives anyway so…

    🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

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    And he doesn’t even drive…

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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.

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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

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        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.

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    Like fuck he paid for it

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    I doubt if he paid for it, or if it’ll ever be driven.

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      All good. It can totally drive itself.

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        Tesla has a chance to do something funny here.

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    $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.

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      Ever wondered if this tariff yes tariff no spiel is just stock maipulation?

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        just for a second, now it’s canon

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      That’s like an hour of playing gold for him

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    This car was probably bought using US government money.

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      It was most definitely bought using your tax money.

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        No it wasn’t. It was Russian tax money.

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          Putin’s manservant bought the car using his hidden slush funds.

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

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