Out of the Mouths of Babes

 

     A few days ago, we were treated to an unprecedented spectacle. The closest we'd come to seeing anything like it (Typically, also in a Trump White House) was when Trump had Sergei Kislyak and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Oval Office on May 10, 2017. It was the day after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey via Twitter. The only documentation we have of that meeting, in which Trump spilled secrets to the Russians regarding Israel's intelligence gathering, was a single photographer from Russian state media, Tass. Trump had kicked all western journalists out of the Oval Office. There's even a picture of Lavrov standing right behind the Resolute Desk

    Then three days ago, Trump seemed bound and determined to confirm the fears, suspicions and beliefs of many watching this co-opted administration by letting Elon Musk hold court in the Oval Office and standing more or less in Lavrov's footprints.

      It was obviously a power move on Musk's part. He was there to literally put a happy face on his ongoing sabotage and espionage of the US government. Being the world's richest man and the most protected terrorist in world history, Musk could've had his presser literally anywhere on earth. He could've held it in the WH press briefing room. Yet, he chose the Oval Office, standing beside and behind Trump. With his four year-old kid.

     As if to say, "I own this, you peasants."

 

     As if the optics weren't horrifying enough, it was also partly about what Musk was saying. He actually admitted to lying by saying not everything he says is going to be accurate (in response to a question about the $50,000,000 USAID spent on condoms to Gaza, which was Gaza, Mozambique to help prevent the spread of HIV, not the Gaza strip in Palestine like Musk alleged). Then he inveighed (Yes, he actually said this) against "unelected bureaucrats".

     You know, like him.

     He spoke about how transparent DOGE really is and announced a new website even though at that moment the website was nothing more than a black page containing nothing (more on www.doge.gov later.) 

     Meanwhile, while he wasn't wearing him around his neck like a thick cardigan, the kid began yelling and even picked his nose and wiped his booger on the Resolute desk that was given to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 as a gift from Queen Victoria.

     At some point, the kid ambled over to Trump who immediately turned away from him as if he had lice because we all know how much he hates kids. For one of the few times during that travesty of a presser, Trump opened his mouth and the kid told him to shut up. Yes, Musk's four year-old son told the "president of the United States" to shut up. And Trump sat there and took it like an umber eunuch.

     The kid knows. Even this preschooler knew who was really in charge, who the real billionaire, the real power was behind the Resolute Desk. Daddy speaks freely in front of him when the cameras and microphones aren't around. "Who's the orange guy, dada?" "Oh, nobody. Just some clown who thinks he's in charge." A four year-old child knew the real power dynamic that only a very few members of our so-called media will even dare speculate aloud, however timidly and timorously.

     You think I'm making this up? Check out this clip on Bluesky where "Little X" tells Trump, "You're not the president and you need to go away."

     Seriously, all that was needed to be done was to have Trump forcibly removed from that leather chair and for Musk to take his place behind the Resolute Desk, boogers and all.

     Meanwhile, Trump sat there, trying desperately to look as if he was still in charge, instead looking like a bored kid in church. Rachel Maddow asked on her show that night, "What, they couldn't find crayons for him, maybe a little map you get at Denny's?"

    Something else the press glossed over. Way back on Election Day. Tucker Carlson asked the little kid with the unpronounceable name if he thought Trump would win the election (Because God knows we should be informed by kids who aren't old enough to go to Kindergarten). And the kid said, "Yes," before adding, "They'll never know."

     People sometimes yell at me both in real life and on social media when I say I will never believe that Trump won the 2024 election and that Harris lost. This is one of the things to which I'm referring. That and Musk saying he could prove with an app that Trump won on November 5th a full four hours before the election was called for him. And any computer programmer worth their weight in Cheetos dust can tell you that any voting machine, anything electronic, can be hacked. An 11 year-old girl did it at a hacker conference back in 2018.

     But just like in 2000 and 2004, it was just a lot easier to accept fraudulent election results than to publicly say both elections were stolen. "We need a peaceful transfer of power," they all say, even if that power is obtained through nakedly fraudulent means on behalf of those least suited or qualified to wield it.

     2024 was no different. No guy that spends a quarter of a billion dollars backing one guy in a presidential election is going to do so unless he can personally guarantee the results he wants. 

      But Trump's cowed demeanor while President Musk was holding court that day was eerily similar to the look on his beet-red face in Helsinki after Trump met with a loosey goosey Vladimir Putin for two hours. All he needed that day was a spike collar around his wattled neck. At the rate things are going, Trump by this summer will be sitting behind a Playskool desk signing fake executive orders with a black crayon right next to the Resolute Desk. Trump has been so thoroughly emasculated by the likes of Putin and Musk that he doesn't care if he's really the one with his hands on the levers of power. It's only important if people think he is.

     And regarding DOGE's website, just hours after the spectacle in the Oval Office, hackers broke into the still-empty website and did this. The little boys of DOGE have since taken taken back control (for now) but one has to ask themself this: Why does a legitimate government organization need two websites? Yes, this is the other website that went up about a month ago.

     By now, it's become screamingly obvious that the fictional DOGE exists solely to serve Elon Musk, not the American people. They're being allowed to illegally slash multibillion dollar programs to free up money for Elon Musk's companies, like the tens of billions in SpaceX contracts that Musk has been happily collecting since last December.

      Which is why Musk is about to collect a $400,000,000 contract from the State Department for armored Teslas. And this is the entire Republican agenda in a nutshell. Free up billions if not trillions for Musk and as a giveaway to their billionaire buddies (Keep in mind the $4.5 trillion corporate welfare blueprint that was just seriously advanced by Republicans). It's the usual Republican agenda only on anabolic steroids under Musk.

     Trump is obviously a bloated Trojan horse that Musk wheeled into the White House. Just a couple of days ago, Rep. Eric Swalwell exposed Republicans for laughing at Donald Trump in private and calling him a child. This is part of what Swalwell said:

     "And yes, censorship is occurring, but it's self-censorship, and it's by you all. Because I hear you in our private conversations when you agree that Trump is a child. I hear the people you tell that Trump is a child, whether it's lobbyists or reporters. But you shrink in this room, and you shrink in the chamber, and you self-censor yourselves from speaking out because you're afraid."

     They don't respect him but they fear him because he's a big baby, yes, but a big baby who's also very dangerous, the giant Trump baby blimp come to life. But no one with working synapses thinks Trump will suddenly turn into a brilliant, transformative president in a way that actually benefits America and not Russia. He's just the empty Trojan horse that contained Elon Musk and we're the latter-day Troy getting hollowed out from the inside.

     So why doesn't Trump do anything about Musk? When will he finally muster some outrage and say, "Enough is enough"? I'd say the 12th of Never. And you know why?

     Because all Musk has to do is go back to the Oval Office, hold a presser and say, "Yes, I stole the presidency for Donald Trump." And it won't be Musk going to prison. It won't be Musk getting impeached. He's only a "special government employee," remember? It'll be Trump. He'll be finished. And he knows it.