House Democrats Rip Trump For Hawking Teslas While The Economy Crumbles

Prices and inflation are rising. The stock market is falling, and Donald Trump is using the White House to corruptly cut commercials for Tesla.

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Donald Trump standing on the property of taxpayers and cutting a Tesla commercial with Elon Musk is not playing well.

House Oversight Committee Democrats hit the nail on the head when they posted on X:

While @POTUS hawks Tesla's for his top campaign donor/favorite oligarch, Americans are battling skyrocketing costs from Trump's trade wars & worrying if their hard-earned Social Security will be stolen to subsidize golf trips and tax cuts for billionaires.

Trump made his intentions clear:

It isn’t just the obvious illegality and corruption behind what Trump and Musk did on taxpayer property. Yes, what Trump and Musk did was against the law, but since The Hatch Act doesn’t apply to the president and Trump many of the IGs, who is going to charge Musk with a Hatch Act violation?

The answer is no one.

The place where Trump has clearly lost a step or ten is that the day that he picked to try to sell Teslas to America came in the midst of an ongoing stock market collapse that is being caused by his trade war.

Meanwhile, Republicans and Elon Musk are publicly stating that they intend to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.

If the stakes were not high and the situation so serious, this day would be pennies from heaven for Democrats.

The political ads virtually write themselves.

Trump and Musk bullied House Republicans into passing an unpopular CR, while they are helping Trump's favorite owner sell cars and, more importantly, reverse the slide in his company’s stock price.

Democrats and the rest of the country should be ripping Trump and Musk to shreds because, to the four people remaining in America to whom it might not have been clear before, today’s stunt made it impossible to ignore that Donald Trump is going to do nothing to lower prices and inflation.

His policies are going to raise prices and inflation while cutting essential programs and services to transfer money from your back pocket to Elon Musk and other billionaires.

People who follow politics knew precisely what Trump was really going to do if he won. They wrote a whole policy framework about it, but too many Americans tuned out of the 2024 election and thought Trump said he was going to lower prices, and that seems good enough to me.

That is how Donald Trump got back into the White House and now all of those people who thought that Joe Biden was too old or Kamala Harris was too much of a black woman to be president are now looking at a crumbling economy and a potentially sliced up social safety net that they helped to cause. Good luck getting on Medicaid when the Trump economy kills your job. Those unemployed Trump voters also won’t have food stamps to rely on if Trump and his party get their way.

But at least Trump fake-bought a Tesla today while the economy was collapsing all around him.

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