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Donald Trump purchased a Tesla, or that’s what lazy headline after lazy headline within the mainstream media instructed the American folks. It was as if the mainstream press was too afraid to look beneath the hood or name out a con that has an extended custom in American historical past.
The time period snake oil salesman goes again to the 19 Century and was used to explain an individual who gross sales fraudulent or ineffective merchandise. The snake oil salesman would typically have a plant who would act as a keen buyer, somebody who was in on the con to assist spur gross sales alongside.
Donald Trump was Elon Musk’s plant right this moment because the snake oil Musk tried to hawk was the inflation of his firm’s inventory value.
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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell wasn’t shopping for the con and stated:
Donald Trump stood with Elon Musk within the White Home driveway with some Teslas in entrance of them. And Donald Trump pretended to purchase a Tesla. It has been reported by professional information organizations in all places that Donald Trump purchased a Tesla from Elon Musk right this moment, as if that is a reality, there isn’t any proof of that.
In any way. No invoice of sale. No examine was handed. Nothing was signed. The 2 most awkward folks in America stood there like statues making an attempt to avoid wasting Elon Musk’s wealth with the utterly faux stunt of Donald Trump pretending to purchase a automobile from the richest particular person on the earth with no cash or paperwork altering arms.
