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How To Understand The Elon Musk, Donald Trump Alliance

Michael Trigg
Unpopular Opinions
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3 min readJan 12, 2025

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It’s like trying to understand a relationship between two aliens from two separate planets. It’s beyond the understanding of us mere earthlings.

Musk and Trump are not from this planet. They were spawned from some sort of malevolent sperm that arrived on our lovely planet via an errant meteor or was extruded from the deep, dark depths of Hades. One a mentally fragile, megalomaniac billionaire and the other a self-important self-aggrandizing ignoramus.

I’ll leave it up to the reader to determine which is which.

Both “men” are peas in a pod though one, Musk, is very, very rich and the other, Trump, is just so-so rich. Both are teetering on the edge of various forms of mental illness and scariest of all, are supported by many influential people whose only motivation is personal gain. Shame on them!

Neither one is a statesman by any stretch of the imagination; neither one is a gentleman; both are ill-mannered, egotistical and the very worst of the worst when it comes to baffle-gab and outrageous lying.

Speaking of gentlemen, I have fond memories of my maternal grandfather. He was a gentleman and a gentle man. He wore 3 piece suits and carried a fob watch. He was a people person. He never met a person he was not…

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Unpopular Opinions
Unpopular Opinions

Published in Unpopular Opinions

We can have opposing unpopular opinions, but share commonalities. Let’s all shut up for a minute and start listening more to each other.

Michael Trigg
Michael Trigg

Written by Michael Trigg

A “Jack of all Trades” and master of some: Mechanic, Writer, Sales Rep, TV producer, Management, Insurance Agent, Consultant www.handshakeconsultants.com

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