Trump administration backtracks from latest Musk storm

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3. Like Trump, Elon has the reverse Midas touch

Aside from the real estate fortune he inherited from his father, Donald Trump has never *in his life* initiated a successful business venture without fucking it up. Casinos in Atlantic City? A goddam permit to make money, even without stiff subcontractors (my son works for the upscale flooring company who carpeted both Trump casinos who (the company, not my son) was unable to collect on their bill). Elon started out with a nice inheritance, too, and was fine in tech stuff, but as soon as he took over the wildly successful Twitter, it began to fail in every way possible. He had a very successful electric car business, but managed to piss off the very people who were in a position to buy his cars--lefties with money--leading inevitably toward failure of Tesla (watch it happen). Now he's applying the same tactics he used to destroy Twitter (and Tesla) to our government, of which he has zero understanding.

No wonder these two are such great friends.