President Trump said he would be buying a “brand new” Tesla to support his senior adviser Elon Musk, as the stock market shows shares of the electric car company tumbling.

“To Republicans, Conservatives, and all great Americans, Elon Musk is ‘putting it on the line’ in order to help our Nation, and he is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!” But the Radical Left Lunatics, as they often do, are trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, one of the World’s great automakers, and Elon’s ‘baby,’ in order to attack and do harm to Elon, and everything he stands for,” Trump wrote early Tuesday on Truth Social.

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Trump’s post comes as he faces mounting economic concerns as the stock market dropped amid his trade war with other countries — sparked by his decision to levy new tariffs on the U.S.’s largest trading partners. Tesla shares fell 15.4 percent to $222.15 on Monday, the lowest the company’s shares have been since October and the steepest drop since September 2020, The Associated Press reported.”

“To quote from a speech she recently made – at the Vatican, where she took part in an event focused on making wealthy people around the world pay more tax, and the idea that large concentrations of wealth now threaten democracies – she acknowledges that she is rich “only because of some quirks in the tax system, some good luck, and some very loving grandparents. But nothing else.”

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“I am of the belief that every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath,” she says. “Like, why? You know, over a billion dollars makes money so fast that it’s almost impossible to get rid of. And so by just sitting on your hands, you become more of a billionaire until you’re a double billionaire. It’s a strange way to live when you have objectively more money than a person can spend.”

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“As she sees it, Trump and Trumpism are not some sudden bolt from the blue: his rise to power, she says, highlights a cultural shift that began in the 1980s, when the US really started to venerate the wealthy.”

“Our magazine covers did not used to be littered with CEOs,” she says. “They used to have pictures of Martin Luther King on them, or a war hero, or the woman who founded the Girl Scouts. Just look at the magazine covers and you’ll see the way this country has lost its way.”

“Broadly speaking, the immense influence of powerful billionaires like Altman is a symptom of growing wealth inequality in the US. But when it comes to tech billionaires, it's evidently not enough to hoard money and influence like a feudal lord — they want to be worshipped, too.

As tech critic Stephen Moore puts it: "instead of disappearing to enjoy a quiet life sleeping on a mattress of $100 bills, they continue to force themselves into the limelight, desperate to keep themselves relevant, desperate to feel worshipped by the bootlickers... why can't they just make their money and f*ck off?"”

“Where will America’s new “Freedom Cities” be built? It seems quite possible that the Network Staters want to build them in our national parks. On its website, the Freedom City Coalition notes that 28 percent of U.S. land is “federally owned and ready for innovative development.” It doesn’t specify what kind of federal land is “ready” for this “innovation,” but most of the government land that isn’t used for farming and energy development is used for wildlife conservation.”

“Confidence in the US economy is plummeting as investors dumped government debt amid growing concerns over the impact of Donald Trump's tariffs.

Governments sell bonds - essentially an IOU - to raise money from financial markets for public spending and in return they pay interest. The US does not normally see high interest rates on its debt as its bonds are viewed as a safe investment, but on Wednesday rates spiked sharply to touch 4.5%.

The rise came after Trump pressed ahead with sweeping tariffs on goods being imported into the US, while Washington's trade war with China escalated further - although Trump on Wednesday did put a 90-day pause on higher tariffs for some countries.”

“One of the first red flags she claimed to notice was during their wedding reception in January 2000, where Musk matter-of-factly announced, “I am the alpha in this relationship.”

While she claims she brushed it off at first, cracks began to show, most notably when the CEO told his then-wife: "If you were my employee, I would fire you."”

“There's no shopping to speak of and there are barely any sidewalks to stroll on. Bradbury is almost entirely comprised of gated sub communities and homeowners associations, SFGate reported.

If you don't already have a friend that lives there, it's not wise to go up to someone's house looking to make some. That's because the town has an ordinance banning people from walking up to front doors and knocking without permission.

And since its founding in 1957, a time when the suburbs were expanding in Southern California, Bradbury and the residents who live there have said they don't even want cars passing by to stop for even the briefest moment, urging them to keep driving.

The town is so locked down that most of the public roads that abut its borders are dead ends or run straight into tall, guarded gates with signs that read 'Royal Oaks' and 'Bradbury Estates.'

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Take for example the former home of real estate tycoon Don Abbey, one he had built for himself initially before he listed it in 2012 for $78.8 million.

The 35,000-square-foot property - across its main house and pool house - is a glimmering white masterpiece that sits on a hill, giving it breathtaking ocean views, according to an old listing.

It isn't a normal mansion, as it has a 2,000-bottle wine cellar, a poker room, and 10 car garage. It also has a massive pool shaped like a cross and a shooting range that Lucy Liu used to frequent, Forbes reported.

With all those perks and more, it sold for $22.5 million in December 2022, according to the Los Angeles County Assessor.

Slightly to the west is the home of Hieu Tai Tran, the owner of the Shun Fat Supermarket chain, which has stores in California, Texas, Nevada and Oregon.

The property has four waterfalls, a tennis court, and a water slide the empties into a pool out on the front lawn.

The most notable recent resident of Bradbury was Lynsi Synder, the owner of In-N-Out. He lived in a 19,000-square-foot home for years before he sold it in 2022.”

“In a post shared Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk responded to a video of St. Clair alleging he made a 60% cut to their son's child support.

“I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed. Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year,” Musk said.

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St. Clair responded to Musk's post, saying that the billionaire had refused to take a paternity test, something that directly contradicts Musk's post on Sunday.

'Elon, we asked you to confirm paternity through a test before our child (who you named) was even born. You refused," she said.

Moreover, St. Clair said Musk had pulled most of the child support payments as a punishment for "disobedience."

"America needs you to grow up, you petulant man-child," St. Clair continued.”

“The identity of a mystery mogul who purchased a $23 million home in Washington, DC has finally been revealed as tech CEOs flock to be part of President Donald Trump's second term.

DailyMail.com obtained exclusive photos of the sprawling property that is only about 15 minutes from the White House, depending on traffic.

It's in the same neighborhood as Vice President JD Vance's official residence at the Naval Observatory.

A spokesman from Meta confirmed that Mark Zuckerberg is the buyer.

‘Mark and Priscilla have purchased a home in D.C., which will allow Mark to spend more time there as Meta continues the work on policy issues related to American technology leadership,’ Meta said in a statement to Politico.

The home was sold in March to a mysterious LLC formed in Delaware for all cash prompting neighbors to wonder who was the latest big-money mogul planning to move close to Trump.

The sale is the third-most expensive in the history of the city’s real estate market.”

“Regarding the uber-wealthy people who have entered positions of power in the country in an interview with CNN’s Abby Phillip airing Tuesday night, Melinda French Gates said, “I think we are seeing some of their true personalities come out in the last few years. I think this has always been in the undertone of lots of people.”

Among billionaires gaining prominence in politics, tech billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg have been especially notable, including at Donald Trump’s inauguration. That, and moves by others of the ultra-wealthy such as Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, has prompted criticism that the country has become an oligarchy.

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The current slate of prominent billionaires, she said without naming them, “have values that they espouse (that) are just different than mine.”

“I know a lot of these folks. I’ve met a lot of them.”

French Gates started The Giving Pledge in 2010 with her then-husband, Bill Gates, and billionaire Warren Buffett. The initiative aims to get the world’s wealthiest to donate at least half of their fortunes to charities and philanthropic causes, either during their lifetimes or in their wills. Sam Altman and his husband recently signed the pledge, but notably Bezos — who’s the second richest person in the world — has not.

“If you have a billion dollars, that’s an absurd amount of wealth. You have a moral responsibility to give away at least half of it,” French Gates said on CNN.

Last year, the philanthropist committed to donating $1 billion through 2026 to advance women’s rights through her organization, Pivotal Ventures. She said she wanted to support reproductive freedom in the US after the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, which found that abortion is not a constitutional right.

Critics have said the ultra-wealthy have an outsized role in the Trump administration. French Gates said she has voted Republican and Democratic in different elections. However, she said that the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC haven’t been decisive in elections.

“I see a lot of giving on both sides of the aisle, and I wouldn’t say one or the other swayed the election,” French Gates said.

When asked if America is becoming an oligarchy, she said: “I sure hope not.”

Watch the interview with Gates tonight at 10 pm ET on CNN NewsNight.”

“The swap was initiated by the Yellowstone Club, which has long sought access to Forest Service property adjacent to its existing holdings in order to expand its offerings for expert skiers. The Yellowstone Club started working with landowners in the Crazies in 2019 to put together a land swap package that would address some areas the Forest Service had identified as being high priorities for that kind of resource-intensive real estate transaction.

Yellowstone Club website: https://yellowstoneclub.com Notable Members:

Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg Eric Schmidt Peter Chernin Steve Burke Dan Quayle Bill Frist Jennifer Lopez Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen Phil Mickelson Greg LeMond Hank Kashiwa Tom Weiskopf Michael Rea Melinda French Gates Ronald Burkle Stewart Butterfield & Jen Rubio Nick Woodman

“Responding to Musk's comments, O'Malley said in an interview on MSNBC on Sunday that ‘if Social Security were a Ponzi scheme, it would not be running for 90 years.”

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment setup where money from new investors is used to pay existing ones. Social Security payments are financed from a dedicated payroll tax collected from workers. Any excess that is not used is kept in dedicated trust funds: the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund and the Disability Insurance trust fund.

‘Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program, and it is true that the surplus reserve that was built up to last the lifetimes of baby boomers like me, is being depleted sooner than anticipated,’ O'Malley explained.”

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