He’s kinda Trump-esque in his willingness to just redefine words (and basically pretend the original use never existed) to his own benefit and have his followers jump on board. Another great Elon example of this is Tesla’s “Autopilot.”
I really don't think the willingness to refine words willy-nilly is a behavior I would associate first with Trump or Elon. Using the wrong word and insisting it means the same thing, maybe, but certainly not redefining words.
Trump-esque? what words has trump even done that for? Changing the meaning of words to fit what you want has been happening long before the printing press even was invented by people in power, vying for power, reporting on things they have a biased interest in or just wanting a quick win on an argument. Not everything needs to be a trump analogy.
Trump popularized the term “fake news”, generally meaning “real news I don’t like”.
And whatever covfefe is
People forget: for a very, very brief moment during the 2016 US presidential campaign, the problem of actual "fake news" was in the spotlight. Literal fake news, where a pseudo-news site would put up stories that was entirely fictional, to promote a political POV, and present them as news. Trump swiftly neutralized the term by co-opting it and using it, as you say, to mean "real news I don't like". But for just a moment in time, it was originally used to describe actual fiction posing as news.
I only ever see it used either (a) sarcastically or (b) to describe actual falsehood. I don't think he was successful in redefining it.
Yeah I guess you’re right here. It’s more like they both go beyond ignoring the real world and just say whatever nonsense they feel like. Then they have a bunch of simps who won’t even question it.