Lhen Donald Trump ruled the United States, from 2017 to 2021, the fear of his scapegoats was to open their Twitter account in the morning and discover a new load of insults, generally in capital letters and punctuated with periods of exclamation, under which their day was going to be buried.
On the eve of the Republican's second term, which begins on January 20, things are a little different. Just a little: Twitter, bought by billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is no longer called Twitter but X. Donald Trump is back there, at the end of a long absence due to his exclusion from the social network after the assault on the Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021, but makes more moderate use of it. It is no longer he who launches the invectives; today, it is Elon Musk himself, future member of the Trump administration, who is in charge, with relish. The targets have not changed: the leaders of large European countries allied to the United States, preferably social democrats, are at the top of the hunting list. Even before the presidential inauguration, the Trump year opened with an anti-democratic and anti-European offensive led by Mr. Musk.
Trump I attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel. Under Trump II, Elon Musk attacks his successor, Olaf Scholz, and the President of the German Federal Republic, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, described as “undemocratic tyrant”. Thursday, January 2, it was the turn of the British Prime Minister, the Labor Party Keir Starmer, to endure a burst of fire from the boss of Pakistani immigrant gangs in Britain.
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A detail which plunges Muskism experts into an abyss of perplexity: account The most erudite have recognized Pepe the Frog, former symbol of the American extreme right; others will have wondered about the mental age of space engineering and electric vehicles; financial specialists noted that the value of the cryptocurrency of the same name, Kekius Maximus, gained 60% in one hour and allowed smart people to collect 2.3 million dollars (2.2 million 'euros) by the way.
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