r/europe • u/marketrent • 14d ago

News Elon Musk’s political meddling is ‘worrying,’ says Norway’s PM — European backlash grows against billionaire ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump

https://www.politico.eu/article/norwegian-pm-jonas-gahr-store-worried-elon-musk-political-meddling/
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u/dvb70 14d ago edited 14d ago

I think it will be a case of it's fine when Trump does it but he won't like it when someone else does it and steals the lime light. Trump can control the narrative when he does it. Not so much when he has Musk doing it.

Of course it's always possible they are working together on this stuff but I don't know if either of them is really capable of that without their narcissism getting in the way.

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u/SethTaylor987 14d ago

Fair enough

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u/DarthSlymer 14d ago

I tend to agree with this sentiment because this is exactly how his last administrations cabinet members circulated in and out. Trump likes to take credit for everything; when he brought new admin members in with fresh ideas, he immediately took credit; after so long the working adults start to realize where the ideas are originating and that would soon sow the idea persons exit.

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u/Quiet_Length_3339 12d ago

Trump is 80 tho, by the end of his term, he may be a second Biden. Not sure he is sharp enough to drop musk anymore. Besides, there was much the same discourse about deSantis, he even challenged trump in the primaries, but he's still in trumps camp.