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Trump violates all sorts of ethics rules by turning the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna195905 The president threw Elon Musk a lifeline with an event, livestreamed on X, where he touted the cars and said he would buy one. President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned the South Lawn of the White House into a temporary Tesla showroom in a conspicuous favor to his adviser Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of the car company. Tesla delivered five of its vehicles to the White House and parked them on a driveway for Trump to personally inspect, hours after he said in a post on his app Truth Social that he planned to buy a Tesla to demonstrate his support for Musk and for the slumping car company. With Musk beside him, Trump declared the vehicles “beautiful” and in particular praised the company’s unusually designed Cybertruck. “As soon as I saw it, I said, ‘That is the coolest design,’” Trump said. Though Trump frequently attacked electric vehicles during last year’s campaign, he told reporters that he’d heard good things about Teslas from his friends. He sat in the driver’s seat of a sedan, with Musk seated beside him, and said he planned to buy one. “The one I like is that one, and I want the same color,” he said, pointing to a red Model S. The vehicle is listed on the Tesla website for $73,490, or $88,490 for the all-wheel-drive Model S Plaid. Because of ethical restraints it is extremely rare for a senior government official, let alone a sitting president, to endorse a consumer product so explicitly. In 2017, when then-Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway told Americans to buy from Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, she received a warning from a government ethics office and promised never to do it again. By reviewing the Teslas in public before cameras, Trump ensured that his purchase would receive wide attention. Dan Scavino, a White House deputy chief of staff, livestreamed the event on X, the social media app owned by Musk. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the application of ethics rules. |
Anonymous
| What is this nonsense?! |
Anonymous
| What an abuse of power. |
Anonymous
This nonsense is sadly our POTUS for the next 4 years. And he's turning America into a laughing stock and enjoying how he can bypass any ethics rules and no one is willing to stop him. |
Anonymous
And apparently most of America is just fine with it. I'm so disgusted by so many of my fellow citizens. |
Anonymous
| Do we even still have a White House / US Government Ethics Office? |
Anonymous
I think they've been DOGEd. |
Anonymous
| I hope he bought the red one! |
Anonymous
| Well, Musk is giving Trump another $100 mn. What's a little publicity by the President for his biggest donor? |
Anonymous
| So glad I sold mine already. Good riddance. |
Anonymous
| So glad I bought a used one, the market is HOT right now! Got a great deal! |
Anonymous
| He just made Teslas even more unpopular. |
Anonymous
| Every morning I wake up hoping one or both of them experienced a debilitating medical event overnight. |
Anonymous
| I love me a Tesla! |
Anonymous
| I have a Tesla and I am not getting rid of it. After all, we don't nuke America because Trump is the president, right? |