Patrick Gaspard

He's not. But you know what? Donald Trump is following and he's a savant of this. Donald Trump. And this is an interesting thing. When we when we get into the conversation of the you know, what's going on with Republicans and Democrats, it's kind of important to note that Donald Trump is a savant of the media ecosystem that we existed. He understood that.

He's not. But you know what? Donald Trump is following and he's a savant of this. Donald Trump. And this is an interesting thing. When we when we get into the conversation of the you know, what's going on with Republicans and Democrats, it's kind of important to note that Donald Trump is a savant of the media ecosystem that we existed. He understood that.

He's not. But you know what? Donald Trump is following and he's a savant of this. Donald Trump. And this is an interesting thing. When we when we get into the conversation of the you know, what's going on with Republicans and Democrats, it's kind of important to note that Donald Trump is a savant of the media ecosystem that we existed. He understood that.

In this era, there's a way that you can take the subtext and make it the text. And so on right-wing, fringe social media and what we used to call the dark web, which is not just the web, there was loads of foment around this issue and what was happening with Afrikaners in South Africa, what had happened to white farmers in Zimbabwe. And all this stuff about how the changing population in the U.S.

In this era, there's a way that you can take the subtext and make it the text. And so on right-wing, fringe social media and what we used to call the dark web, which is not just the web, there was loads of foment around this issue and what was happening with Afrikaners in South Africa, what had happened to white farmers in Zimbabwe. And all this stuff about how the changing population in the U.S.

In this era, there's a way that you can take the subtext and make it the text. And so on right-wing, fringe social media and what we used to call the dark web, which is not just the web, there was loads of foment around this issue and what was happening with Afrikaners in South Africa, what had happened to white farmers in Zimbabwe. And all this stuff about how the changing population in the U.S.

needed to be concerned about this, that farmers in Ohio and Iowa, et cetera, would start to see this kind of thing if we allowed for all the migrants to come into America to take the farm jobs, et cetera, and that they were going to replace white Americans in the heartland. This was like flourishing in the web.

needed to be concerned about this, that farmers in Ohio and Iowa, et cetera, would start to see this kind of thing if we allowed for all the migrants to come into America to take the farm jobs, et cetera, and that they were going to replace white Americans in the heartland. This was like flourishing in the web.

needed to be concerned about this, that farmers in Ohio and Iowa, et cetera, would start to see this kind of thing if we allowed for all the migrants to come into America to take the farm jobs, et cetera, and that they were going to replace white Americans in the heartland. This was like flourishing in the web.

So in that run-up to 2016 election, this guy was really clever at pulling together all the strands of really dark conspiracy theories on the extreme right, platforming them, censoring them, and figuring out how to kind of do a wink and a nod to it all throughout that campaign. So that's a fever that he picked up then that persists to this day. But you ask about Elon Musk.

So in that run-up to 2016 election, this guy was really clever at pulling together all the strands of really dark conspiracy theories on the extreme right, platforming them, censoring them, and figuring out how to kind of do a wink and a nod to it all throughout that campaign. So that's a fever that he picked up then that persists to this day. But you ask about Elon Musk.

So in that run-up to 2016 election, this guy was really clever at pulling together all the strands of really dark conspiracy theories on the extreme right, platforming them, censoring them, and figuring out how to kind of do a wink and a nod to it all throughout that campaign. So that's a fever that he picked up then that persists to this day. But you ask about Elon Musk.

There's an important element here for those of us who care about corruption, and a thing that we don't talk about here in the U.S., but that we talk about a lot in South Africa, the notion of state capture. Please understand that right as Donald Trump becomes president again, Elon Musk goes back to South Africa.

There's an important element here for those of us who care about corruption, and a thing that we don't talk about here in the U.S., but that we talk about a lot in South Africa, the notion of state capture. Please understand that right as Donald Trump becomes president again, Elon Musk goes back to South Africa.

There's an important element here for those of us who care about corruption, and a thing that we don't talk about here in the U.S., but that we talk about a lot in South Africa, the notion of state capture. Please understand that right as Donald Trump becomes president again, Elon Musk goes back to South Africa.

He has a meeting with the president of South Africa, Sir Raul Posa, and he tries to push on South Africa a deal around Starlink. So here you have a person who is influencing

He has a meeting with the president of South Africa, Sir Raul Posa, and he tries to push on South Africa a deal around Starlink. So here you have a person who is influencing

He has a meeting with the president of South Africa, Sir Raul Posa, and he tries to push on South Africa a deal around Starlink. So here you have a person who is influencing

Donald Trump's direction of travel and his foreign policy, of course, blowing up the government as we know it and blowing up our soft power footprint in USAID and basically punishing South Africa with the drawback that we have from PEPFAR, et cetera, at the same time that the same person who happens to be the richest person in the world is trying to convince the South African government that they should enter into a financial arrangement with him and his private enterprise, Starlink.

Donald Trump's direction of travel and his foreign policy, of course, blowing up the government as we know it and blowing up our soft power footprint in USAID and basically punishing South Africa with the drawback that we have from PEPFAR, et cetera, at the same time that the same person who happens to be the richest person in the world is trying to convince the South African government that they should enter into a financial arrangement with him and his private enterprise, Starlink.