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Elon Musk's endorsement of Trump may have backfired

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just checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes , and although Hughes' profile of rich, famous, technically inclined, and clearly eccentric, is an easy comparison, in contrast the only mention that article makes of any mass-market political dabbling on Hughes' part was an insistence on political correctness at post-acquisition RKO.

Musk actually makes Hughes look... kinda stable, tbh. Hughes may have had interesting views on the correct sizes for peas, but he wasn't all that into trying to impose his Pea Views on everyone else.

I'm kind of baffled that the Trump team thought he'd be helpful, _especially_ given they already had Vance. Vance and Musk are broadly the same sort of weirdo; two seems superfluous, even if there was a case for one (there probably was not). Both, I think, come across as much more alienating than Trump himself to most people.

Would be cool if the article would explain Musk's reasoning for the support. 'Us rich guys gotta stick together.' isn't much of an analysis. Trump is anti union? As I understand it, Trump is not anti-union. He worked effectively with unions in New York for decades. But he seems to be anti union leadership.

So what was Musk thinking?

All that is meaningless, supporting Trump makes the demographic he follows on X love him and fawn over him even more

It could be due to Trump's desire to replace the heads of many agencies like the EPA, etc, probably leading to deregulation. Elon's wet dream.

He only jumped the trump when prediction markets guaranteed him winning (after shooting).

I can understand musk tho - current president propping up legacy auto hence oil industry is just not fair to tesla.

Per Reuters, from May this year:

The NLRB has ruled that Tesla broke the law by barring factory workers in California from wearing union T-shirts and when CEO Elon Musk tweeted that employees would lose their stock options in the company if they unionized.

A long list re Trump on the Communication Workers website: https://cwa-union.org/trumps-anti-worker-record

I think on this one he's wearing it on his sleeve and I take his motivation at face value. If you want to know why, he tells you why on his twitter all the time.

Musk's desperate for attention, would be my suspicion. Every time he's out of the news, he does something weird. This gets him in the news, ego it is desirable. I'm not sure you _really_ have to go looking for more complex motives than that.

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