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Mark Cuban uses Elon Musk's own AI chatbot to shoot down his praise of far-right German party

Musk said that ‘only the AfD can save Germany’ in a post on X on Friday night that provoked widespread backlash from politicians at home and overseas
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Mark Cuban uses Elon Musk's own AI chatbot to shoot down his praise of far-right German party

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Trump bristles at Musk's rocketing profile as Democrats play on the president-elect's vanity

Whether Elon Musk is the real “president,” merely the “prime minister” or just Donald Trump’s multibillionaire enforcer, he’s carving out an unprecedented role that could raise conflicts of interest for the new administration.

The dust is still settling following the Tesla and SpaceX pioneer’s role last week in sabotaging a year-end House spending package, which was eventually replaced by a smaller stopgap law to keep the government open until […]
Trump bristles at Musk's rocketing profile as Democrats play on the president-elect's vanity

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Can Elon Musk Become US President? Donald Trump Says… – NDTV

Could Elon Musk, who holds major sway in the incoming Trump administration, one day become president? On Sunday, Donald Trump answered with a resounding no, pointing to US rules about being born in the country.
“He’s not gonna be president, that I can tell you,” Trump told a Republican conference in Phoenix, Arizona. 
“You know why he can’t be? He wasn’t born in this country,” Trump said of the Tesla and SpaceX boss, who was born in South Africa.
The US Constitution requires that a […]
Can Elon Musk Become US President? Donald Trump Says… – NDTV

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Trump-backed bill to keep US government running fails to pass – BBC

A US government shutdown is fast approaching after the House of Representatives voted against a Donald Trump-backed spending bill.
Dozens of Republicans defied the president-elect by joining Democrats to reject a revised funding measure.
If no deal is agreed by midnight local time on Friday, some federal services will begin shutting down from the early hours.
The Republican Party's leadership in the House vowed to find a solution to the impasse over government funding ahead of the […]
Trump-backed bill to keep US government running fails to pass – BBC

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Musk helped kill a bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

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Washington: President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk played a key role this week in killing a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, railing against the plan in a torrent of more than 100 social media posts that included multiple false claims.
The X owner, an unelected figure, used his outsize influence on the platform to help sway Congress, doing so without regard for facts […]
Musk helped kill a bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation

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WNBA star takes aim at Elon Musk, rips billionaires after funding bill gets passed | Fox News

Fox News’ Madeleine Rivera reports on Congress passing a last-minute bill to fund the government on ‘Fox News Live.’
Phoenix Mercury guard Natasha Cloud took a shot at Elon Musk and other billionaires in posts on social media on Sunday after the passage of a stopgap funding bill to prevent a government shutdown.
Musk and President-elect Donald Trump led the conservative rebellion against the initial plan to avert a partial shutdown, a bipartisan deal that came from negotiations between the top […]
WNBA star takes aim at Elon Musk, rips billionaires after funding bill gets passed | Fox News

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Mike Johnson jokingly asks Elon Musk if he wants to be House speaker after spending bill drama

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he jokingly asked Elon Musk if he wanted to take over his job — after the billionaire helped torpedo a major government spending bill on Thursday, resulting in a pared-down version that passed Friday night after two days of intense wrangling.
“Elon Musk and I talked within about an hour ago and we talked about the extraordinary challenges of this job,” Johnson (R-La.) told reporters after the House overwhelmingly passed the final […]
Mike Johnson jokingly asks Elon Musk if he wants to be House speaker after spending bill drama

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Elon Musk says government shutdowns aren't a big deal. He couldn't be more wrong.

The federal government is on the brink of a shutdown — and the blame for this unexpected turn of events falls squarely on Republicans, in particular Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Earlier this week, House Speaker Mike Johnson negotiated a deal with Democrats that would keep the government funded for three months and pay for a host of programs that would lower prescription drug costs, fund childhood cancer research, invest in early detection for breast and cervical cancer and remove hidden costs […]
Elon Musk says government shutdowns aren't a big deal. He couldn't be more wrong.

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Elon Musk's curious fixation with Britain – BBC

In 2012, Elon Musk had just completed a business trip to London and Oxford. "Just returned… I met with many interesting people," he wrote on Twitter. "I really like Britain!"
Fast-forward to 2024, and Musk's views on Britain are a little different.
"Civil war is inevitable" … "Britain is going full Stalin"… "The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state".
These are just some of his recent comments on X, as he […]
Elon Musk's curious fixation with Britain – BBC

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Clarence Page: Elon Musk takes on Washington, but can he take it over? – Chicago Tribune

Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but he’s already pushing the buttons and pulling the levers of power in his old, familiar style of upheaval, veiled threats and name-calling. But now in the run-up to his inauguration, Trump finds himself competing for headlines with another champion grandstander, Musk, the world’s wealthiest human.
Musk famously spent a quarter-billion dollars this year to get Trump elected, and lately he’s been swanning around Mar-a-Lago like he co-owns […]
Clarence Page: Elon Musk takes on Washington, but can he take it over? – Chicago Tribune