River Dog wrote:Then it simply means that my explanation isn't correct.
What we do know is that Trump is erratic, unpredictable. Look at all of the campaign promises he's broken. He said that on Day One, he'd launch the greatest deportation effort ever, but despite the headlines about the Venezuelan nationals, he's removed fewer illegal aliens last month than Biden did in February 2024. He pledged to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office. He promised to lower the price of gas and last Thursday, claimed that the price was under $2.00/gallon in "a couple of states" even though the lowest in the nation was at a station in Texas at $2.17. The nationwide price of gas in January 2025 was $3.08, today it's $3.27. He promised to lower grocery prices, and those have gone up and will go up even further due to his tariffs. Eggs alone have increased 8% since he took office.
I could go on and on. But the point is that Trump is very erratic, talks out his arse, says and does things that make no sense whatsoever and have no basis in fact. I think he's nuts as he demonstrates a lot of the traits of a person who is mentally compromised and would explain nearly everything about his behavior.
And you're right, Trump isn't behind the curtains throwing switches and pulling levers. Half the time he doesn't even know what DOGE has done, they are almost an independent department with no oversight whatsoever. Sometimes they hit on a good idea, like ending the production of pennies and cutting back at USPS, other times they step in it, like closing SSA offices (how many times have you heard Trump say that he wasn't going to touch SS or Medicare?)
Aseahawkfan wrote:Trump is playing golf. Elon paid 270 million to ride his coattails. He's gotta let Elon do what Elon does...like ruin his Tesla business, hope that right wing voters who don't believe in climate change buy his Teslas, and impregnate random women he meets on X to seed the planet. Elon is definitely nuts. That guy has lost it.
So we basically have two crazy rich guys running the country. Neither one sleeps very much, which probably contributes to their crazy.
Up until a few months ago, I didn't know that much about Elon Musk. But boy, he's as nuts as Trump. When Trump first appointed him to head up DOGE, I was optimistic that he found a guy with a business background, and a successful one at that, to run the country more like a big business instead of some nonprofit charity. But some of the things he's done are just insane, like making govt. employees write down what they did last week in order to justify their continued employment. It sounds like he's giving a 3rd grade class an essay assignment.
There's a part of me that laughed at Musk for his dedication to Trump when these tariffs torpedoed Tesla's stock. Serves him right.