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BumRushDaShow

(158,756 posts)
Fri May 2, 2025, 06:40 AM May 2025

Trump Says 'Internet People' Like Musk 'All Hated Me' and 'Now They're Kissing My Ass'

Source: MEDIAite

May 1st, 2025, 10:23 pm


President Donald Trump bragged on Thursday that “internet people” like billionaire Elon Musk were now all “kissing” his “ass,” despite most of them opposing him during his first term in the White House.

“Progress never comes from those satisfied with the failures of a broken system. It comes from those who wanna fix the broken system, and you’ll make the bigger money, you’ll make more success by acting that way,” Trump advised graduates during a commencement speech at the University of Alabama. “The other way may be more secure, but if you wanna go to the top, you’re just never gonna do it unless you break the system.”

He continued:

You have to break the system a little bit and follow your own instincts, but if your vision is right, nothing will hold you down. Nothing. You have to have the right vision. If you look at some of these internet people, I know so many of them, Elon is so terrific, but I know now all of them. You know, they all hated me in my first term, and now they’re kissing my ass.


As the graduates in the audience clapped, Trump added, “It’s true. All of them. It’s true.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-says-internet-people-like-musk-all-hated-me-and-now-theyre-kissing-my-ass/
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Trump Says 'Internet People' Like Musk 'All Hated Me' and 'Now They're Kissing My Ass' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 2025 OP
Telling young graduates to break everything. Get people to kiss your ass. Irish_Dem May 2025 #1
Did he crib the commencement speech from Glass Onion? forgotmylogin May 2025 #23
Disgusting. I feel the need to point out this wasn't the main commencement ceremony Iris May 2025 #2
Words of wisdom from Mafia Don... sop May 2025 #3
Put me down as still hating. twodogsbarking May 2025 #4
He owns the current corrupt "system" Blue Dotty May 2025 #5
They still hate you Don. TurboDem May 2025 #6
Hey donnie two-dolls, what do you have to say about Leghorn21 May 2025 #7
"donnie two-dolls" BumRushDaShow May 2025 #8
I've resurrected a term I used a few years ago EYESORE 9001 May 2025 #9
... BumRushDaShow May 2025 #10
So, how did the "Internet People" rig the 2024 election? Kid Berwyn May 2025 #11
He's getting played liked a flabby drum Marthe48 May 2025 #12
Dear felon Don azureblue May 2025 #13
Yes, he's always angry, but this is anger with a hefty dose of rage! PortTack May 2025 #14
The words of a malignant narcissist stollen May 2025 #15
Break the system means break the law. ToxMarz May 2025 #16
What he has wrong is that they still hate him, republianmushroom May 2025 #17
"...they're kissing my ass." So klassy!! Grins May 2025 #18
He is almost certainly parroting Elon when he talks about breaking the system a little to fix things andym May 2025 #19
They still hate you Quanto Magnus May 2025 #20
More accurate to say that they are tonguing his asshole. cstanleytech May 2025 #21
If Krasnov says Musk is kissing his ass you can be sure it is the other way around and Donny is puckering up Botany May 2025 #22
Nice talk for a President. twodogsbarking May 2025 #24
eloon musk in the background, jumping up and down, happily shouting: orleans May 2025 #25
Well, Trump does know ass kissing. DJ Synikus Makisimus May 2025 #26
BTW, FYI, effer, a Hella Lot More people Hate You than them! electric_blue68 May 2025 #27
Not this internet person mdbl May 2025 #28
This is twice in the last few weeks he's said Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2025 #29
We still hate you. camartinwv May 2025 #30
Reminds me of his speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree rickford66 May 2025 #31

Irish_Dem

(73,426 posts)
1. Telling young graduates to break everything. Get people to kiss your ass.
Fri May 2, 2025, 06:55 AM
May 2025

Don't follow the law.

Nice advice. Not.

Iris

(16,576 posts)
2. Disgusting. I feel the need to point out this wasn't the main commencement ceremony
Fri May 2, 2025, 07:05 AM
May 2025

according to previous reports

Blue Dotty

(148 posts)
5. He owns the current corrupt "system"
Fri May 2, 2025, 07:50 AM
May 2025

I hope they take that part of his advice to heart, and tear his system down.

Leghorn21

(13,945 posts)
7. Hey donnie two-dolls, what do you have to say about
Fri May 2, 2025, 08:05 AM
May 2025

SERVICE
HONOR
DUTY
RESPECT
INTEGRITY


just asking questions, you worthless fuck

azureblue

(2,544 posts)
13. Dear felon Don
Fri May 2, 2025, 10:01 AM
May 2025

As people of Italian persuasion say, When you piss of people, you gotta watch your back...

PortTack

(35,705 posts)
14. Yes, he's always angry, but this is anger with a hefty dose of rage!
Fri May 2, 2025, 10:34 AM
May 2025

He really is failing badly and he knows it ….so comes the rage.

180 law suits so far, he’s won 5
Millions protest weekly against him and his failed regime
Poll numbers the lowest of any sitting president ever
An aging addled brain easily manipulated
No doubt failing health

I love this for him! May he soon be consumed by his self hatred.

stollen

(954 posts)
15. The words of a malignant narcissist
Fri May 2, 2025, 11:02 AM
May 2025

in addition to his need to control the planet. Trump continues to pile onto what psychologists and psychiatrists have told us since before he was elected the 1st time: the man has a serious mental illness.

For God's sake, if you personally know anyone like this, head for the hills.

ToxMarz

(2,539 posts)
16. Break the system means break the law.
Fri May 2, 2025, 11:32 AM
May 2025

And if you get away with it, it's very lucrative. And if you're very rich people will disreagrd how you got rich, just admire your business acumin. And if they don't you can probably buy you're way out of trouble.

Also, "breaking the system/law" only works if everyone else is playing by the rules. If everyone was "breaking the system" then they start to form criminal organizations to consolidate power and compete. Then turf wars........ Pretty soon the majority that didn't win in the consolidation and are under their thumb begin to champion Govt regulation and enforcement and a fair playing field. A SYSTEM so to speak (which is what we are supposed to be trying to do now).

republianmushroom

(21,121 posts)
17. What he has wrong is that they still hate him,
Fri May 2, 2025, 11:37 AM
May 2025

what he has right is that many are kissing his ass now.

But that day we are waiting for happens there will be a great party.

Grins

(8,761 posts)
18. "...they're kissing my ass." So klassy!!
Fri May 2, 2025, 11:39 AM
May 2025

At a university event, no less.

From the “traditional family values” crowd who want to censure speech and media over vulgar content: (Sound of crickets…)

andym

(6,030 posts)
19. He is almost certainly parroting Elon when he talks about breaking the system a little to fix things
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:09 PM
May 2025

Elon is one of Trump's many influencers.

Botany

(75,114 posts)
22. If Krasnov says Musk is kissing his ass you can be sure it is the other way around and Donny is puckering up
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:34 PM
May 2025

Is this like when he said other countries are calling him up and kissing his ass for trade deals
when the exact # of countries calling him for trade deals was zero? Except for Canada’s P.M.
who called Krasnov up and told him to cut the crap after which Canada and European countries
started to sell off treasury bills or bonds and Donny backed off in a heartbeat.

How to tell Donny is lying? His lips are moving.

orleans

(36,377 posts)
25. eloon musk in the background, jumping up and down, happily shouting:
Fri May 2, 2025, 04:50 PM
May 2025

YES! YES! IT'S TRUE! AND I WANT TO KISS YOUR ASS AGAIN--RIGHT NOW!!!!!

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,079 posts)
26. Well, Trump does know ass kissing.
Fri May 2, 2025, 06:33 PM
May 2025

Most people think that Vlad Putin speaks with fork-ed tongue. Actually, one of those is Trump's. I don't have to tell you how it got there, do I?

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(16,151 posts)
29. This is twice in the last few weeks he's said
Fri May 2, 2025, 07:59 PM
May 2025

'so and so is kissing my ass' or words to that effect . In the last 250 years of American politics I don't think any president used that phrase. I would love to ignore him but to do so would be foolish.

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