In an interview with NBC News, the president also said he assumes his relationship with the tech billionaire is over after their recent falling-out.

Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill.

“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.

“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he added.

Trump also said he has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk after a feud between the two men erupted into public view earlier this week.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
      40·
      6 个月前

      Amen, fellow MAGA! Let’s also block his ability to fund the Dems with a campaign finance reform amendment! Then, when we really have Musk on the ropes, we’ll hit him with a one-two punch, overturning citizens united and codifying the fairness doctrine into law. If he thinks he can steal the next election, he’s got another thing coming! We’ll slam him by replacing the electoral college with a ranked choice voting (or other better) system! He’ll never know what hit him!

      [Me, to myself]: “God, I hope this works.”

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    871·
    6 个月前

    Justice: weaponized

    Party support: criminalized

    Population: fuck yeah daddy oooh yeah this is ok fuck everyone else

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 个月前

      He’s all about that, but consequences for others. That’s why he told all his dipshit supporters he is their “retribution”.

      Retribution for what, who the fuck knows.

      They are angry about a lot of things, most of them made up horse manure from Bullshit Mountain, aka, the Faux News Cinematic Universe. But they expect donvict to dole out consequences to people who are not them. The dog whistle that is not all that much of a dog whistle is that the people who need to be hurt are mouthy women, LGBTQ, POC, liberals, people with an education, experts they don’t like, etc…

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
    61·
    6 个月前

    Sometimes I think about how if any previous president had done, over the course of their entire career, the things Trump does in the average week, or sometimes even just a single day, it would have immediately ended their career. If a previous president had openly stated that if a specific person funded their rivals there would be serious consequences, that’d be it. They’d be done. Impeached on the spot, out of office, blacklisted by their own party, and shamed for all of history.

    The news cycle crucified Obama for wearing a tan suit. They raked him over the coals because he was so out of touch that he asked a burger place if they had Dijon mustard. What do you think they’d have done if he openly promised retribution against those who dared disagree with him like this?

    And Donald motherfucking Trump does this crap all the godamn time, and he just gets away with it because the Republicans like that it’s their tyrant, the Democrats are afraid of actually doing anything, and by the time the public can mobilize against one thing he’s already done three more things that make the past look trivial.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      16·
      6 个月前

      They spent years saying that Obama was going to declare martial law and end elections.

      Then, Trump supporters literally stage a coup and there are no consequences. They made Carter give up his peanut farm, but Trump can keep all of his shady illegal businesses?

    • Bonesince1997@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 个月前

      I don’t get it either. And the only thing I’ve come to conclude is that I should hold those in my life who in any way provided support for Trump or to what led us here accountable. I don’t know what that fully means either. Just that they’ll be hearing from me that which should be directed at the president or others, but because they won’t ever do it themselves they’ll get it from me. Kick me out of your life then. On these grounds. They’ve already made their choices anyway.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
      9·
      6 个月前

      Stop taking them seriously. Stop meeting them in the middle. Pacification and reaching across the isle is over (not that they ever participated in it), and they’ve dropped any pretense of believing in the constitution; that was only ever a political expediency to keep the left in check. Start demanding real changes with teeth, and if they whine, well, piss on em, those dumb fucks want Donald Trump to be king, who gives two fucks what those jerkoffs think?

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
      English
      51·
      6 个月前

      The DNC leadership isn’t afraid. The DNC leadership is doing exactly what it’s paid to do.

      Walz, AOC, Bernie? They are the real threat to the billionaires. I think it was MLK Jr who said that the greatest evil in America isn’t a single side - it’s the moderate. It’s someone who doesn’t actually care. The DNC is entirely and purposely made up of “moderates” to kneecap it. Any attempts to remove that moderate makeup get rejected.

      It’s controlled opposition. It’s how tyranny thrives in the modern age. Make your opponent look weak, ineffective, but with people you control, so they don’t happen to make any changes should they get any piece of legitimate power.

    • TheFogan@programming.dev
      5·
      6 个月前

      Honestly fine with him just sitting out. Dems funded by billionares… write laws that favor billionares. Dems that accept his money are going to favor the same facism bullshit the republicans do.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    631·
    6 个月前

    “If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.

    I wonder how many times his attorneys have explained to him the concept of incriminating yourself in advance of retaliation.

    • Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
      30·
      6 个月前

      He’s got away with everything so far.Why should he start caring about the law now? Legal, illegal, that’s for the poors to worry about.

    • evenglow@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 个月前

      Trump can say and do whatever he wants. It’s his lawyer team to make sure he doesn’t under court oath. For example, Trump’s entire life and the amount of days he hasn’t been in jail.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    529·
    6 个月前

    Also, golly gee thank god we avoided BidenSoOld/“GenocideJoe” and Kamala the Cop, because they would have been Just As Bad ™.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      6 个月前

      “They would have been worse! Kamala would have had higher tariffs!!” - my dad. He doesn’t believe me that tariffs are only a Trump thing… he doesn’t even watch fox. He mostly listens to news from Russia and Ukraine. And that guy on YouTube who sounds like a cartoon character.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        7·
        6 个月前

        And that guy on YouTube who sounds like a cartoon character.

        That doesn’t really narrow it down much…

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 个月前

        A person in my neighborhood still has a TRUMP LOW PRICES KAMALA HIGH PRICES sign in their front yard, albeit partially hidden behind a bush. Unremarkable except they’re black and living in a subsidized housing development. You just can’t make shit like this up.

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website
        243·
        6 个月前

        Trans people, immigrants, etc fearing for their lives, being kidnapped to a foreign death camp, and going full conservationist on climate change is a lot bigger of a difference than 1.3%.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          93·
          6 个月前

          So much this. So tired of hearing how the Democrats are not perfect. They are a human institution, so of course they are not perfect. Whole lot of people letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Do I think Democrats can be pushed to do better? Like virtually every other Democratic voter, hell yes, I think so.

          Do I think pretending both parties are virtually the same is some truly deep truth or even the least bit helpful? Not even a little bit. But I sure know that lots of people think “both sides” is a great shorthand to showing how insightful they think they are…sigh.

        • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
          911·
          6 个月前

          Name one policy plank from Kamala’s campaign that was going to make a meaningful impact to climate change. As I recall, she danced around the subject and offered a little drilling, as a treat. The democrats were already softening on trans rights, and, as I recall, the Kamalampaign shied away from saying anything pro-trans and simply yelled about how bad Trump would be instead. That was basically the whole campaign-- they had three moves:

          Hey, Kamalampaign, we’d really like to see thing, what’s your policy proposals on thing?

          1. Uhhh… Well, you see, Trump is going to be much worse for you than we are.

          2. Oh, look, it’s a celebrity guest appearance! Everyone say hi to Katy Perry!

          3. I can’t believe that you’d have the nerve to even ask questions at a time like this, unbelievable that you’d even ask about thing when the alternative is Trump!

          Which isn’t surprising. That’s basically how the HRC campaign played it when they won in 2016 against Trump, and doubly unsurprising considering that the democrats didn’t trust Kamala enough and decided to stick her with Hillary’s extremely competent campaign leadership. There’s no substance there, no promise or prospect of doing any better, no reason to vote for the candidate, just reasons to vote against the other one. I don’t know who the fuck at the DNC got it in their head that that was a winning strategy, because to my knowledge, it is consistently a bad strategy in marketing, politics, business, and basically everything. And, well, they’ve won 33% of the times they’ve tried it, but by God, don’t let a god awful track record get in the way of the democrats fucking it up again.

          • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
            121·
            6 个月前

            The IRA is getting gutted and Trump is trying to force coal plants to stay open. Even if Kamala did absolutely nothing, that would still be much better for the climate. 1.3% is not a big number.

            • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
              59·
              6 个月前

              I really need you to understand how absolutely cooked the democrats are and the rest of us along with them when the only vision for the future that the democrats will commit to is “we promise to just not be as bad as that guy lmao”

                • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
                  6·
                  6 个月前

                  In the primary? Dean Phillips. In the general, Kamala, and I’m not afraid to share that I think a big reason why the democrats seem to fucking suck at beating Trump is their utter lack of vision.

          • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website
            32·
            6 个月前

            Don’t need to, Trump is actively stopping federal progress on climate change. Kamala having zero policy on it, doing literally nothing and maintaining the status quo is always better than accelerationism under Trump.

        • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
          16·
          6 个月前

          I would still be in the US if Kamala had won. I’m trans, latina, and in a w4w relationship. But in retrospect, I’m so glad I left

          I’m still fucking tired of being treated as a political pawn by so called “leftists” who don’t actually give a shit about intersectionality