Elon Musk’s reign of terror within the federal authorities has formally come to an finish, after the malevolent billionaire introduced on Wednesday that he has left the White Home to return to his floundering enterprise empire.
Within the 4 months Musk was a member of President Donald Trump’s administration, his DOGE group each totally failed to satisfy his aim of slicing $2 trillion in federal spending, and hobbled essential authorities packages, like Social Safety, the Nationwide Climate Service, illness mitigation efforts, lifesaving international help, and medical analysis for issues like childhood most cancers.
And he now leaves along with his tail between his legs, having been forged away from Republican politics as he’s an enormous legal responsibility for the GOP’s electoral prospects.
Whereas Musk’s destruction will outlive his tenure, we’ve got to level and giggle at him to be able to alleviate our despair. This is a have a look at Musk’s most insane moments within the White Home.
Elon Musk holds a chainsaw on stage on the Conservative Political Motion Convention on Feb. 20, in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
1. The CPAC chainsaw
On the Conservative Political Motion Convention in February, Musk spouted insane conspiracy theories and wielded a chainsaw on stage whereas yelling—what else?—“Chainsaw!”
2. His band of DOGE bros
Quickly after DOGE kicked off its harmful spree, media retailers unmasked the host of racist and incompetent bros Musk employed to workers the group.
One of many DOGE bros, 25-year-old Marko Elez, was compelled to resign after his racist social media posts surfaced, just for Musk to rehire him.
And who can neglect the 28-year-old tech bro Nate Cavanaugh, who marched into the U.S. Institute of Peace to take over the constructing and shut down the impartial company—a transfer that was simply overturned on Could 19 by a federal choose?
President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk converse to reporters close to a crimson Tesla car on the South Garden of the White Home on March 11.
3. The Tesla infomercial
In March, Musk bought Trump to host a Tesla infomercial on the White Home garden—a cheesy and corrupt gambit that did little to assist revive Tesla’s picture or gross sales, that are nonetheless in the bathroom.
4. His Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom fail
Later in March, Musk donned a cheesehead to dole out wads of money in an effort to elect a conservative candidate to the Wisconsin state Supreme Courtroom. The candidate Musk bankrolled in the end misplaced in a landslide after Democrats tied the candidate to Musk and his harmful DOGE efforts.
The loss spooked Republicans, displaying simply how potent of a difficulty Musk could possibly be for Democrats within the 2026 midterm elections.
5. The failed war-plan briefing
Additionally within the later half of March, Musk tried to get briefed on america’ secret conflict plans with China, a rustic Musk has monetary ties to.
Fortunately, Musk, who had no purpose to know the navy’s plans for combating China, was by no means briefed on the conflict plans. That’s as a result of even somebody as corrupt as Trump—who traces his personal pockets by promoting entry to the White Home to the very best bidders—thought that Musk getting the China conflict plans would have been a battle of curiosity.
“Elon has businesses in China. And he would be susceptible, perhaps, to that,” Trump mentioned.
6. DOGE ‘savings’
As Musk’s DOGE faltered and the general public soured on it, Musk tried to construct again assist by itemizing off the allegedly wasteful contracts DOGE canceled.
However the group’s financial savings tracker, which it revealed on-line, was stuffed with errors and faux accounting gimmicks to make it appear like DOGE minimize greater than it really had. The tracker’s web site regularly needed to be corrected as reporters discovered quite a few errors.
President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk, joined by his son X Æ A-Xii, speaks within the Oval Workplace on the White Home on Feb. 11.
And on the finish of the day, DOGE could not have saved the federal government a lot in any respect. The truth is, one impartial evaluation discovered that DOGE’s cuts will find yourself costing the federal government $135 billion in authorized prices and misplaced productiveness.
7. Musk’s ‘legion’ of infants
And let’s not neglect—although we could need to—the revelations concerning the infants Musk has reportedly sired with ladies throughout the nation as a part of his twisted aim of making a “legion” of his offspring.
As stories surfaced that Musk was a deadbeat dad who impregnated ladies after which left them excessive and dry, he bizarrely toted considered one of his no less than 14 youngsters round with him on the White Home, presumably to show he isn’t a horrible father.
In a single look, Musk’s son was seen choosing his nostril and wiping the boogers on the Resolute Desk within the Oval Workplace.
What an apt metaphor for the mess Musk has left us all with.
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