Keeping up with the White House: Teslas, tantrums and Trump

The office of the US President has a history wrapped up in controversy, whether it be propping up dictators in Chile or arming genocide in Palestine. This month, it was used as an advertising tool. That's right, facing a boycott and collapsing sales in the US and Europe, Tesla boss Elon Musk turned the White House lawn into his personal showroom, and the President into his crier.

"Wow, everything's computer" exclaimed the man who currently holds the US' nuclear launch codes, stepping into one of the parked cars. Musk, using his own child as a human shield as usual, grinned on with delight. In the week following a series of arson attacks on Tesla dealerships, the President commanding his MAGA flying monkeys to 'buy, my pretties, buy' must have warmed Elon's heart a little, if he still has one.

Musk wasn't the only washed-up alleged-sex offender put on display by the White House, either. Last November, a jury in Dublin found that Irish combat-sportsman Conor McGregor had sexually assaulted a woman in 2018, but - shock - that didn't stop Trump from parading the 36-year-old around to whine about migrants.

Trump's federal government are sending a clear message to all the bottom feeders and bigots of the world through this series of increasingly pathetic stunts: 'the White House is safe for you, this is your space now'. How long before we see the Tate brothers welcomed into the Oval Office?