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[-] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

Since they started, how much money in subsidies found its way directly to the American co-president anyway?

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago

well, the one that hit the news recently is that bullshit $400m 'armored tesla' contract for state department. the one they 'oopsed' and went back to remove tesla by name from.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

That whole thing sounds rather counterintuitive. Armor is supposed to protect the occupants of the vehicle, but Tesla's crown jewel of armored* trucks has a track record of spontaneous system failures that put its occupants in direct harm.

*with glass windows and steel sheet metal that can't stop a bullet.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Looks like that was initiated under the Biden administration?

The Tesla contract started in the Biden administration "to explore interest from private companies to produce armored electric vehicles," a State Department spokesperson said on Thursday.

Tesla was the only company to express interest in the department's request at the time.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Doesn't matter. Musk must withdrawal his company from consideration due to conflict of interest.

[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 1 points 5 months ago

He's not elected. He couldn't give a f about conflict of interest.

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Armoured tesla...
Was the cybertruck just a soft prototype of the TeslaTank© ?

[-] Chivera@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Co-president? Elon is the only president.

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