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Trump’s ballroom and Jan 6 payoff fund are suddenly unfunded. So iPINIONS thinks the obvious move is to make Elon Musk pay. With SpaceX poised to make Musk the world’s first trillionaire, Trump can rebrand the grift as private generosity and launder the vanity through Elon. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-should-make-elon-fund-his-ballroom Read more.
Elon Musk and Matt Walsh claim Christopher Nolan is pandering by casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy. But this uproar has little to do with Homer and everything to do with Black beauty entering a mythic space White grievance still thinks it owns. iPINIONS argues that Nolan didn’t invent Lupita’s beauty. He merely cast… Read more.
Nixon went to China and changed the world. Trump went to China and degraded the country. This iPINIONS commentary argues that Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping turned US-China diplomacy into a spectacle of MAGA corruption, billionaire access, and national humiliation. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/nixon-went-to-open-china-trump-is Read more.
Jeff Bezos is choosing autocracy over democracy in a naked bid for power and profit. From mass Amazon layoffs to killing the Washington Post’s Kamala endorsement and bankrolling Trumpworld vanity projects, this post argues Bezos isn’t afraid of Trump… he’s courting him. iPINIONS unpacks how billionaire greed, media capture, and MAGA capitalism are converging in… Read more.
Trump’s foreign policy has become a grotesque mix of Musk’s ego, Fox’s fiction, and white grievance. iPINIONS chronicles who, from South Africa to Venezuela, it’s ignorance on parade and power without principle. What could go wrong… Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/on-foreign-policy-trump-makes-george Read more.
Trump’s billionaire backers (Ellison, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, and Murdoch) are turning America’s news industry into a MAGA propaganda machine. They’re gutting journalism for profit and power, while pretending it’s free speech. iPINIONS sees this as a silent coup reshaping America’s media landscape. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/ellison-bezos-and-other-oligarchs Read more.
But what boss in their right mind announces they’re firing a stellar employee… “next year”? That’s like giving a disgruntled employee six months to torch the place before you boot them. But this is just the latest example of corporate CEOs bending the knee to Trump with even more supineness than spineless GOP politicians. More… Read more.
Just a year ago, I once declared Threads dead on arrival. Now it’s quietly kicking Elon’s X into irrelevance — no cage match required. From bots and hate speech to fleeing advertisers and Grok’s antisemitic meltdown, X is imploding. Meanwhile, Threads is gaining ground on users, credibility, and momentum. Turns out iPINIONS was wrong, but… Read more.
Trump tapped Elon Musk to reform the federal government. Predictably, Musk got high on ketamine, fired essential workers, gutted lifesaving aid programs, and quit — leaving the public sector in flames. His farewell on Friday coincided with a damning exposé about his drug-fueled dysfunction, and with new reports that his “reform” may have killed more… Read more.
Bill Gates made headlines this week with a pledge to give away his entire $200 billion fortune before he dies. That’s not just philanthropy. It’s a moral counterpunch to Elon Musk — who’s been cutting the very aid programs Gates is now scrambling to rescue. Gates is giving to save lives. Elon is hoarding power… Read more.
