Has social media master Trump finally been outmatched by Elon Musk?
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President Trump, the poster-in-chief, may have finally been outposted — by the owner of the social media platform he used to love.
President Trump, the poster-in-chief, may have finally been outmatched — by the owner of the social media platform he used to love. Elon Musk posted fast and furiously against Trump on Thursday, wielding his X account like a political weapon, the same way he previously used it to trash President Biden and other Democrats. Trump tried to keep up on his own, much smaller site, Truth Social, but the president was no match for a social media-addicted mogul who sometimes posts more than 100 times per day, even in the middle of the night. While Trump has all the power of the American presidency, including 24/7 access to the world’s media, Musk has some advantages in this war of words too: A much bigger social media footprint than Trump and, lately, a willingness to play dirtier than the president. While Trump derided Musk with generalities — “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave” — Musk wrote more viciously and with a much higher volume, at one point invoking the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Ordinary social media users just sat back and watched, gobsmacked, as the war of words scrolled by. Influencers joked that Thursday was the most interesting day on X in years.
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