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Businessman Donald Trump previously used the pseudonym John Barron and John Miller to drop information within media that served his interests. The activity long known, and the intent was easily understood. President Trump has always known how to use media.
There are many who have questioned why President Trump has often allowed New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman access to him; and some have been frustrated because the outcomes of that access have often resulted in negative stories. However, when taken in context, President Trump’s allowance of Haberman can be viewed through the same prism of his history using John Barron/John Miller.
As a result, while there is often a skewed negativity behind the outcomes of the Haberman stories, there are also elements of truth within the manipulated context of them. A recent story about President Trump and Elon Musk carries that same sense.
Haberman writes that President Trump is growing weary of Musk’s constant proximity, calling the tone from Trump on the issue a situation where Musk is “clingy.”
While I doubt that President Trump would ever publicly distance himself from the influential billionaire, at least not while he serves a purpose for President Trump, there’s no reason to dismiss Haberman’s report as completely manufactured.
Musk is in the Trump orbit because President Trump has positioned Musk in the Trump orbit. However, when considering the full background of Musk’s activity in politics, there is a clear intention for the tech bros to want the proximity. Because these are influence games, it is worth paying attention to the inside baseball aspects.
FLORIDA – Publicly, Donald Trump is thrilled to have his mega-donor and “First Buddy” Elon Musk camping out just a few hundred feet from his house. Privately, he seems to be tiring of Musk dropping in whenever he feels like it.
“Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot,” New York Times journalist and “Trump whisperer” Maggie Haberman told tech reporter Kara Swisher during the latest episode of Swisher’s podcast, On.
After pouring more than a quarter-billion dollars into Trump’s re-election effort, Musk has been renting the $2,000-per-night Banyan Cottage at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club, the New York Times reported last week.
It’s not clear who will ultimately foot the bill for the cottage, which is just a few hundred feet from Trump’s main residence and transition-team headquarters. From Banyan, Musk has been able to attend Trump’s personnel meetings and crash awkward dinners with rival tech billionaires, like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
“He really parked himself in Trump’s face,” Haberman said.
For now, Musk seems to be on the winning side of the MAGA civil war that’s pitted Silicon Valley’s regulation-hating tech bros against the original grassroots loyalists who have backed Trump since 2016, she said. But it’s not clear how long that will last. (read more)
From the outside it does appear that Musk is holding influence, and it is also true that President Trump is affirming the influence in a positive light; that’s what he does (until he doesn’t).
Many people have forgotten, the Silicon Valley team previously aligned to support Ron DeSantis; Musk even used his platform to try and boost the Florida Governor long before his hidden agenda to cozy up to MAGA for 2024 operations were evident. Trump headed off that alignment simply by defeating DeSantis very publicly, and as a consequence he became the vessel for the Tech Bros to jump aboard; but again, that is the way Trump intervenes by using his seismic scale.
When originally outlining the relationship between the Technocrats and their need for political influence through Trump, I said the alignment would continue as long as the global and domestic interests of the Silicon Valley crew were on a parallel path with MAGA nationalism. However, there was always going to be a moment when those paths diverged. We are witnessing that split now in real time…
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