The Trump — Musk Minstrel Show.

Mike Weisser
3 min readOct 6, 2024

I don’t recall the last time a business leader has so brazenly gone out to campaign for a Presidential candidate the way Elon Musk has now become the featured performer on Donald Trump’s variety show, a.k.a., his campaign rallies, but leave it to Musk and Trump to come up with an act which may not make it to Broadway but is still drawing crowds out of town.

Musk showed up at Trump’s rally in Butler, PA, and announced he was now a member of the ‘Dark MAGA’ movement, a meme which showed up on X a couple of years ago and promotes Trump’s return to the Oval Office by any means.

The ‘dark MAGA’ message isn’t quite as crazy as the messaging from groups like QAnon, but it’s close. And for all his bullshit about ‘restoring free speech’ to the internet, all Musk’s really doing is using his communications platform to promote Donald Trump.

The good news is that if the November 5th numbers work out the way they are working out today, Trump will begin to fade out because losing a national election for the second straight time is just something that can’t be overcome no matter how you try to explain the outcome as a fraud or the work of the Jews and the Deep State, or something else.

On the other hand, while Elon Musk still can’t run for President on his own, if Trump manages to somehow get his fat ass back into the Oval…

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