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Elon Musk Is Positioning X Behind the New Trump Presidency
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 9, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET | Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel

Posted on 11/09/2024 11:46:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Since Donald J. Trump won the presidential election, Elon Musk has gone all in on X to promote the incoming administration.

Mr. Musk, who owns X, posted on the platform about politics more than 400 times between Tuesday and Friday, celebrating Mr. Trump’s victory and talking about the causes that the president-elect should take up in office. Mr. Musk’s posts included a photo of himself and his son X Æ A-Xii Musk surrounded by Mr. Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago, as well as another photo of himself with Mr. Trump that was captioned “Novus Ordo Seclorum,” a Latin phrase that appears on the dollar bill and means “a new order for the ages.”

Linda Yaccarino, X’s chief executive, also chimed in. In reply to a post this week about the platform’s role in driving political conversation, she wrote, “Reporting for duty.”

Their comments show how Mr. Musk is increasingly positioning X as the platform behind the new Trump presidency. Since the election was called on Wednesday, Mr. Musk has used X to talk up how bright the future will be under the president-elect. In addition, he has urged X’s users to replace the news media and report on Mr. Trump’s triumphant return to office, and has promoted the platform as a go-to destination for continuing conservative conversation.

That comes on top of how Mr. Musk has used X as a battering ram for months to support Mr. Trump’s campaign. Mr. Musk, who endorsed Mr. Trump in July, held a wide-ranging audio conversation with him on X in August. That same month, Mr. Trump started using his reinstated account on the platform regularly.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: trump
But it was OK when Zuckerman gave the Democrats millions of Zuckerbucks to interfere in the election.
1 posted on 11/09/2024 11:46:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hmmm telling the truth instead of being propaganda whores for the Democrat party like the New York Times and the rest of the dinosaur media. I don’t see the supposed issue here.


2 posted on 11/09/2024 11:49:21 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Slimes remains rooted to its position of bird cage liner?


3 posted on 11/09/2024 11:49:45 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“That comes on top of how Mr. Musk has used X as a battering ram for months to support Mr. Trump’s campaign.”

TRANSLATION: They posted facts for users to read and come to a decision.


4 posted on 11/09/2024 11:50:45 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: MNJohnnie
I don’t see the supposed issue here.

If X was promoting the DimWITS, the NY SLIMES would be all in but Musk is supporting the evil orange.

Calling all DimWITS for censorship.

5 posted on 11/09/2024 11:52:35 AM PST by politicianslie (SAFE and EFFECTIVE has become SUDDEN and UNEXPECTED. Use Dr. McCullough protocol to beat death! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We’re in charge nyt.......PISS OFF


6 posted on 11/09/2024 11:53:37 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Elon has as much right to post on his platform as anyone. Lefties can post there too if they want. He’s all about free speech.


7 posted on 11/09/2024 11:54:25 AM PST by circlecity
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But it was OK when Zuckerman gave the Democrats millions of Zuckerbucks to interfere in the election.

I think it's important to ask why Zuckerberg is no longer supporting the Democrats.

He went all out to support Biden in 2020.

This time he did nothing.

But he did praise Trump and even called him a "bad@$$"

8 posted on 11/09/2024 11:54:45 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is just too funny. The New York Times always positions itself behind the Democrat candidate. Talking about the pot calling the kettle black.


9 posted on 11/09/2024 12:00:11 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: circlecity

Yes he will. And he will allow it to be spread all over the globe via his satellite network too.

Ultimate transparency.


10 posted on 11/09/2024 12:16:06 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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Elon and adorable son at Mar-a-Lago.

11 posted on 11/09/2024 12:27:32 PM PST by Liz ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ya,and the Slimes is positioned in the sewer with all of the radical left


12 posted on 11/09/2024 12:27:57 PM PST by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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“Their comments show how Mr. Musk is increasingly positioning X as the platform behind the new Trump presidency.”

The Left has PLENTY of billionaires, so if they don’t like Musk owning Twitter, they can buy it from him (assuming he’s willing to sell it, hehe). Or they can start their own version.

After all, isn’t that what they told us to do?


13 posted on 11/09/2024 12:34:11 PM PST by BobL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WINNING!


14 posted on 11/09/2024 1:08:13 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (NOT TIRED OF WINNING!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m old enough to remember when the left was raging against Rush Limbaugh. They tried to silence him. They couldn’t understand him and berated his followers too.

I still cannot understand how the left owns 99% of the media and yet they remain fixated and unhappy about the 1% of the media platforms that won’t submit to their leftist dogma.


15 posted on 11/09/2024 1:26:03 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ZZ Top - Heard It On The X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adnNrK11pu0

And in every county there
Talkin’ ‘bout about outlaw X
Whose cuttin’ through the air

Anywhere y’all
Everywhere y’all
I heard him, I heard him
I heard it on the X


16 posted on 11/09/2024 1:26:15 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This sort of hypocrisy should be a criminal offense.


17 posted on 11/09/2024 1:29:02 PM PST by workerbee
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As someone else has mentioned, Musk is all about freedom of speech and anyone can post their opinion/position on X. While Must supports Trump, X remains a free speech platform — and that is what the NYT and Left don’t like and will continue to attack Musk for. But notice, these two harpies have said nary a work about Google and its suppression of search results suppoerting Trump and conservatism. The NYT and its writers are useless in promoting intellectual conversation in the country and it is becoming more and more useless for EPU to constantly post their articles.


18 posted on 11/09/2024 1:52:09 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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Leftist don’t like to post on free speech social media because their lies get refuted almost immediately.


19 posted on 11/09/2024 1:57:50 PM PST by Freee-dame ( )
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To: All

And CNN pretends to be a news network.


20 posted on 11/09/2024 5:45:59 PM PST by mmichaels1970 ( )
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