We see it everyday don't we, where he lies and tells Americans to believe the lies. Like Tariffs are paid by the country of origin and bringing in vast amounts of money.
Again, this guy read about how the NAZIs did it and knows how the KGB and FSB did it.
He is as stupid as a box of rocks but he knows as a businessman and huckster how to lie about anything.
The American system has a bad habit of saying, "The President has...", "The President will...", "The President believes.." when it is impossible for a President who works a mostly job that is largely 8A to 5P/Mon-Fri to be involved in minutiae. This is a group effort and there's hundreds of staffers in the White House who are claiming the President's name to do most of what goes on from day to day.
There are some thing like the tariffs that have the random, logic-free, chaotic fingerprints of Trump on it.
But the other stuff? It is too well-engineered to be the work product of a man who claims to come into the office every day without a plan. Each time I watch one of those Executive Order signings, there's some assistant there telling Trump what he's signing. Trump seems surprised or delighted but it's apparent that he hasn't actual read the Order.
But the DEI/trans stuff... that seems to be more Elon.
The immigration stuff... that seems to be Stephen Miller.
The actions against "liberal" universities? There's a series of speeches and podcast from Vance talking about going after academics and defunding universities that he accuses of being the source of liberal thought in America.
It's no coincidence that the agencies that have been deconstructed first were the very agencies that were investigating Musk.
On the sidelines is Steve Bannon, railing on that it's not him who is in the White House dictating the Executive Orders and pursuing the populism that fuels the whole mess.
What we're seeing is a bunch of sycophantic courtiers flattering a narcissistic king and pursuing their own agendas in his name. On one hand, it's the Court of Henry VIII. On the other hand, it looks a lot like Stalin, Hitler, Orbán, Erdoğan, et al, who used the State's power to weaken their opposition, take control of anything or imprison anyone who dared to speak up and, most important of all, reward the people behind the leader with favors and lining their pockets State assets and taxpayer money.
