Everyone in Trump World Hates Elon Musk

Everyone in the Trump White House apparently hates Elon Musk, finding him the most annoying person ever, but he's still in The Meetings -- albeit deceptively covertly.

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Everything is relative, apparently, because even the worst people on the planet hate Elon Musk. He is that annoying.

And yet, he’s still in The Meetings, albeit deceptively covertly, because Donald Trump knows he owes him or Donald Trump is so out of it after he spends his energy enriching himself and his oligarchs with rumored market manipulations and sticky fingers that he just lets Elon Musk do whatever he wants.

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Rolling Stone published a deep dive in which they delve into how loathed Musk is by Trump world, titled: “INSIDE ELON MUSK’S GLEEFUL DESTRUCTION OF THE GOVERNMENT The world’s richest man has blazed a staggering trail of destruction as Trump’s DOGE chief, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing in.”

In the beginning stages of this piece, they lay out that Elon Musk parroted a famous line from the 1999 movie Office Space (one of the best movies ever) to someone whose job he was denigrating — and he did it with that Musk smirk, “What would you say you do here?”

The RS writers — Miles Klee, Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Meagan Jordan — point out that Musk has missed the entire point of Office Space, which is “that corporate culture is dehumanizing, and bosses like him are odious cretins.”

Because he can’t get enough face-planting cringe, Musk also repeated this on Twitter/X, and seemingly bragged about using it on federal workers he was firing. He thinks he’s this:

Imagine being the richest man on earth, having bought a presidency, and posting a meme about yourself wherein you make yourself the villain while clearly thinking the corporate management consultants brought in to fire people are the “cool” ones, and posting it the social media platform you bought, whose algorithm you reportedly had changed to boost your account and views after a pique of rage that President Biden was more popular than you. Musk had to work hard to appear as popular as he needs to feel, with the algorithm made to “artificially boost(ed) Musk's tweets by a factor of 1,000.”

Musk often makes jokes like this, in which he reveals that he doesn’t understand the basic concepts of iconic movies, which is not a big deal unless a person is also so tediously annoying that everyone around them hates him while he is destroying an entire country.

And this, unsurprisingly, is apparently the case with Elon Musk.

While making the case that the country hates Elon Musk after his gleeful carnage of our government during the opening days of Trump’s “shockingly lawless second administration,” Rolling Stone has a section titled “‘Crazy Uncle Elon, ’” during which they delve into how much everyone around Trump hates Elon.

Setting the stage, they recount Musk’s recent “Nazi” salute and chainsaw on the stage at CPAC, along with the frequent concerns that he often appears to be high on drugs, although he denies this — other than his Ketamine prescription, that is. A man running the U.S. government with all of the destructive impulses that can be said to have led to his ousting as CEO of PayPal and mismanagement of Twitter, on Ketamine?

What could go wrong? He is, obviously, the perfect Trump henchman.