Trump officials growing tired of ‘unfunny’ and ‘irritating’ Musk
Summary
“I have been in the same room with Elon, and he always tries to be funny. And he’s not funny. Like, at all,” a senior Trump administration official told Rolling Stone. “He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor. I keep using the word ‘annoying’; a lot of people who have to deal with him do.”
Musk’s insufferable behavior has caused several high-ranking officials to walk out of important meetings and sincerely question if he was high on drugs, the publication reports, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio is said to be barely able to hide his immense dislike of the DOGE chief and State Department officials routinely call him “Crazy Uncle Elon” behind his back.
Other officials have suggested subjecting Musk to a mandatory drug test, which he has said is a “great idea” for federal employees, as a way to push him out of the door. The Tesla CEO has denied taking any illegal drugs, although numerous people claim to have witnessed him use LSD, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms behind closed doors, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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It's amazing that he can do LSD, mushrooms, and ex and still have zero empathy.
I would question your maths, but the rest doesn't sound all that bad.
wait holy fuck 0^0 does equal 1, wtf. how?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_the_power_of_zero
A definitional concession to make exponential series work. x^n^ for n ∈ (0, 1) is the nth root of x, which gets ever closer to 1, while x^n for n < 0 equals 1÷ (x^n^). Between them lies the neutral element with respect to multiplication 1 (neutral meaning that x × 1 = x; a factor of one doesn't actually change anything). Hence, x^0^ = 1.
That rule breaks down for x = 0, obviously. Negative exponents don't work at all because they're division by zero, while all exponents > 0 result in 0. Semantically, 0^0^ probably should be undefined, but the neutral element rule does provide a definition. There also isn't really any reasonable use case where you'd need that to be consistent with anything else.
It's been fried by taking too many drugs once,.plus alcohol has been known to make your brain physically shrink
Yeah, that was my first thought that he really hadn't because unless he micro-microdosed or just said he did to be "cool", which is on brand for him, there's no way he did hallucinogins and still came out the other side like that.
From my understanding he's a big proponent of the simulation theory, so he's probably cool with being a shit person because it's all a simulation anyways. I'd wager that he sees himself as a player in a video game and he's going for high scores.
Who the fuck can take simulation theory seriously?
gestures generally around
But his idea of simulation theory and most of our ideas of simulation theory are not the same.
He thinks it means there are no consequences.
We all know it's means the consequences might be simulated but they still suck.
Which is asinine. As currently, there is no way out of the simulation if that is even true, so you're stuck with the simulation consequences no matter what. Which means you might as well treat them as real because they are to you. We should have cleaned up better after WW2 somehow.
We also should have cleaned up better after the Civil War. That was probably the bigger mistake.
Tbh we could probably take this back to the beginning of time. The real question is, how do we stop the slow slide into monsters from where we are at now? Also, its not slow.
Yeah. I think it would have involved nuclear annihilation at some point, and not because of USA vs Russia, but because the USA was pro nationalism-racism-authorotarianism-eugeniscm long before WW2.
Why do you think they happily looked the other way for so many scientists.
So just nihilism with more steps.
A particularly nasty version of absurdism, more like. If nothing matters in the grand scheme, might as well go and make the best of your life. Except most people can still acknowledge that empathy does matter for your life at least, while he doesn't give a shit.
I think you just summed up MAGA
Someone on a lot of drugs?
It's getting hard to take even reality seriously these days.
It would explain a lot. Most of the people in this world act like poorly scripted AI.
Someone who is high all the time
I’m surprised Ketamine isn’t in this list, I thought it was his drug of choice this past year?
I really doubt Elon is who he is and uses acid or shrooms. That just sounds like reefer madness nonsense to me.
To be fair, this said behind closed doors. He does the ketamine out in the open, claiming it was prescribed to him.
Hey! Elon and i go to the same doctor!
Someone please go spike his coffee with whatever dosage is needed to trigger ego death
He also smoked weed in public on the Joe Rogan show. He clearly likes drugs.
I wish we could dispel the myth that psychedelics make you peaceful and empathetic. In my experience and in my friend group they seem to make you be 100x what you already are. If you’re empathetic you become an empathy monster, if you’re analytical you start breaking things down, if you’re an annoying asshole you’re someone who should be kicked out of the room because that times 1000 is too much.
Ifs hes combining it with ketamine, cocaine and alcohol, it makes sense
Oh you're tired? You're enabling fascism and you're fucking tired? You're endorsing human trafficking and all you are is tired? You're profiting off of the complete dismantling of our fucking country and the best reaction you can muster is walking out of a meeting beacause you're TIRED???
Go suck a fucking barrel.
Fellow autist here,, here's my funniest Elon moment:
The cybertruck reveal, softball pitch into the window.
Musk audibly gasps and says 'O-oh myfuckinggod.'
Comedy gold.
That moment, right there, that was the high water mark.
Then, the window cracks, and shortly afterward, his entire general public facade and reputation begin to crack and shattet as well.
I do appreciate a visual metaphor.
I don't know.
He did just recently get bullied off a livestream because he bought an account, claimed to be a world class PoE 2 player, and then died to a tutorial boss.
All that money and still no respect lmao
I'm autistic, which results in me deconstructing and analysing jokes instead of laughing (often to the displeasure of the people who think I didn't find their joke funny – I promise, if I'm taking the time to disassemble your joke that means I found it funny and want to understand why).
The flipside is that I occasionally crack out carefully engineered bangers, because I understand the importance of a setup, building expectations and putting the brain on one track of thought, then capping it off with the "derailing" of those expectations. The shorter you can get it, the less time the brain has to get off track on its own, diminishing that derailing effect.
Of course, getting the inspiration and figuring out a way to put that into practice is it's own unpredictable beast, and some jokes just fall flat despite my effort. Sometimes I misread the room or the audience too. I'm not a particularly talented comedian.
But at least I'm not a setup without a punchline.
I've never seen anybody put that much effort into a pun.
Puns are never very funny. The best you can normally hope for is a small chuckle. And yet he went with a full, big, heavy prop for a tired pun.
Even Carrot Top knew that prop comedy only works if you have a lot of small, light props that you go through quickly. Walking around with a heavy sink might get you as jacked as Carrot Top, but you're not going to get the laughs.
I'm still amazed he became a Vegas resident comic. Like, he wasn't that unfunny but he was never anybody's favorite comic.
I once saw some clip of a carrot top show and he did admittedly make me laugh. I do like puns though
Yeah I laughed when I first saw him too. I didn't know we were supposed to dislike prop comedy at the time. I don't hate the guy, I wish him continued success.
I remember seeing him for the first time a couple decades after having seen him during his '80s heyday. I was laughing my ass off at these hilarious Incredible Hulk fake arms he was wearing - and then I gradually started realizing that those were his real arms.
Hey, I like puns! I think this one could have been very funny if the thing we were letting sink in was harmless, and not his acquisition of the world's largest microblogging platform for the purpose of controlling public discourse.
Some people, a very very very very small subsection of the populace, have a talent for puns. The problem is, they make it look easy, and that makes EVERYONE think they can do it...
It’s my eternal hope that the reddit puns never make their way to Lemmy. They’re always so bad.
Someone posted a scene from Galaxy quest where the cast is experiencing turbulence.
Everyone except Sam Rockwell. He is at a muuuch lower intensity level than the whole cast. Someone points it out.
Someone dunks on the layup and says, "I guess Sam doesn't rock well."
Also made me wonder if Sam did it on purpose. To set up a pun with his name.
It's not even a thing he thought of spontaneously. I remember around that time or a half year i. Advance a lot of his tweets were: contained let that sink in. He just couldn't wait
What is he doing there?
Carrying a sink into Twitter headquarters after he bought it. I honestly don’t even understand the joke. I assume he’s saying he was going to cut everything including the kitchen sink, or let this sink in, but neither is very funny.
The joke was "I just bought twitter, let that sink in."
But it wasn't even his joke, people on then-twitter were repeatedly sending that joke to him
He’s just the worst.
Wasn't he carrying it out? Like after he fired a bunch of people so he could make the joke: "Throwing everything out, even the kitchen sink."
That's how I remember it. I don't really want to look it up since I am already sick of knowing so much about this guy.
He walked in with it.
I'll take your word on it.
Oh, wow, that's really not funny.
If it was funny, would space Karen have done it?
The fact that we are having to discuss the brain dead mechanics to even understand his "joke" tells you how fucking stupid and unfunny he is, jokes have a certain flow of logic even "lol so random" jokes function on subvertting ones expectations and breaking the logical followup.
Now story time, when I was 3 or 4 I was trying to figure out how jokes worked because I am just that autistic. As a result of this I was given the overly simple answer of set up and punchline, this resulted in me creating the oh so glorious "What's a ponytail in a dress? A joke" which only makes sense to my younger self. That is still funnier than any joke Musk has ever made.
Also on a vaguely related note when I was trying to figure out slapstick I apparently slammed a metal folding chair into my uncle's back and then poured a bottle of water onto his face, I do not remember this unlike the verbal "joke" all the male boomers that were present at said event remember it though. The wonders of alcohol and heatstroke, which I was suffering from the effects of cause I thought a bottle of hard cider was apple juice.
I'm a simple person. Let this sink in would be a good enough dad joke for me.
He's on a bender
The article's hero image is him wearing a cheese shaped hat. I'm afraid to even ask the context behind that one...
They were in Wisconsin and he was pandering to the locals by wearing a cheese hat and giving away millions of dollars to bribe voters. It didn't work - the candidate he was supporting lost.
Cheese for brains, especially with the holes
Captain soft hands almost dropped that thing. It’s hilarious how weak he is for such an alpha
I mean that's kind of funny though
No I'm actually funny
Why so mean?
BREAKING NEWS...
President Musk issues EO declaring he's funny.
First Buddy Trump agrees.
Not laughing about his jokes will be considered terrorism and be punishable by deportation to a Salvadoran concentration camp.
Elon is going to whisper in Trump's ear to get rid of these officials
He probably thinks "lolrandom" humor is the peak of comedy.
he already revealed what he thinks is comedy when he talked about his pitch to SNL. it's unbelievable.
very curious what he pitched
I couldn't take the suspense and I had to look it up.
Article
God he’s a fucking repulsive loser.
He's truly a very sad pathetic human being.
Ugh.
Fucking child.
He is so advanced, he completed mental development at 10.
And that's what didn't get in.
His episode ranks up among the worst examples of episodes ruined by the host (another famously bad one was Steven Seagal).
SNL lets the host drive much of the theme of an episode, and his was a particularly bad stinker.
apologies. the other commenter was helpful but the article doesn't do justice to the way he tells the story.
https://youtu.be/bl5vdxBKtOI
Yuck. All those people laughing in that over-the-top way at his desperate attempt at humor, delivered so smugly.
dude maybe you didn't get it. see a rooster is called a cock, which is also slang for penis. get it? but that's not all! a cat is also called a pussy, which is slang for vagina! get it? do you get it now? isn't it funny? it's very subtle but they're talking about animals but it sounds like they're talking about genitals... oh man that's why they call him genius, who can even think of that‽
you know, except literally everyone when they were about 12 years old.
He would be the one asking all those sex questions on askreddit, it's almost always a 12 would askg those, since his penis is permanently managed from a botched surgery, by a questionable surgeon
You're absolutely right - the article did this no justice. The text is quite cringey on its own, but this is... Even more yikes.
His reaction to the dead deer in the pewdiepie episode all those years ago was what first caught my eye about this lol
He's so used to being the boss and having everyone always laugh at his shitty jokes that he thinks he's funny.
He's not a politician and has no charisma or any way of getting people to do what he wants outside of ordering them to, which is why he'll never do well in politics where building and maintaining relationships in your coalition is one of your main jobs.
Musk is so poor all he has is money.
He thought having more money would make him powerful and therefore likable, and he’s in the FA stage.
If he decided to do something like solve world hunger instead of buying Twitter a lot of people would begrudgingly give him some respect at least.
He’s a narcissist. He psychologically is unable to think that way. For him power comes from mone, so he cannot give it away. If he’s not rich, then he’s not special. He’s no one.
"behavior has caused several high-ranking officials to walk out of important meetings and sincerely question if he was high on drugs"
Bet you dollars to donuts that he is, so, yes.
Emphasis on the plural DRUGS.
People are leaking to get Musk kicked out. Imagine how ill-behaved one must be to get kicked out of that room.
A shy guy who desperately wants to be a nerd's nerd somehow gets tangled with the party of RAM truck buying adult frat bros who see themselves as "alpha". I just can't figure out the culture fit, and articles like this don't surprise me at all. Like, isn't Trump the kind of guy who would endlessly bully someone for saying they play videogames at all?
There are two main types of "conservative" now. The old school big truck lovin', god-fearin', beer guzzling, anti-environmentalist yeehaw types, and the "newer" 4chan-posting, edgelording, neckbearded, gamergatin', crypto-lovin' internet troll types that have arose in the last twenty-five years with the proliferation of the Internet. Elon is trying to fit in with the latter.
^ This. Never forget, Trump's first term was pushed to success by 4 chan. He is and always has been a 4chan president. He is the emolbodiement of everything /b/
You mean asmongold grandpa?
The richest man in the world isn't trying to help you. He's helping himself to whatever he wants. Super bad idea.
Despite fitting right in. Weird.
They are definitely NOT "tired" of his money though.
I’m a bit confused, cause Trump isn’t funny. It must be awful to be in a room with either of them.
Trump is funny to conservatives. The kind who laugh at the attack helicopter joke. Elon isn’t even funny to conservatives, which is kind of impressive.
Trump is best viewed as an insult comic
I'm a killjoy: I doubt that this article is accurate, or if it even matters. I think articles like this exist to placate. I wouldn't trust anything that a "senior administration official" tells Rolling Stone.
I guess that's what happens when you're rich enough to spend your life surrounded by sycophantic yes men who'll lap whatever you say up for proximity to money and influence.
Man has insulated himself from ever experiencing the sincere social cues you need to develop and refine your communication skills.
Probably, it's an unconventional opinion, but I believe one may on their own will take any drug as long as they are responsible about it.
There's the case of already awful person who doesn't understand anything, futher exaggerated by their keta binge, who doesn't even care about how they affect people's lives. All red flags, like it's a red corner in a soviet school. They shouldn't be judged on their drug abuse first, but by how they are careless and stupid by default.
Being intoxicated while making important decisions that affect the future of the country doesn't count as "responsible," IMO.
One can argue what intoxication means there.
But sure, what Kneelon musk does is not unlike drunk driving.
I choose to see the good in Elon; he may have finally made the cheese hat too cringe to wear.
But at what cost?
At what cost?
To lose the Wisconsin Supreme Court election: $21m.
As a wisconsinite this deeply upsets me
Your culture is wrong, I'm sorry
You don't like cheese?
Cheese is food not fashion!
¿Porque no los dos?
Can you eat the so-called cheese hats?
No, the cheese is a lie, the crimes never end
I have unironically seen an edible cheese hat. Check mate
Not to mention the constant k-hole he seems to be in
All world-historical personages happen twice; first as Rasputin, then as Musk.
We can only hope they all end the same way twice.
Rasputin had a huge dick whereas Musk is a huge dick. Math checks out.
Who's the Russian Queen now?
Trump officials deserve everything that is coming to them, and that includes dealing with an attention-seeking narcissistic billionaire who owns their boss.
Im tired of pig fucking fascists regardless if they're funny or not.
DEPORT Them! Not the Illegal Immigrant Stealing EVERYONES jobs and Tax Dollars, the ones HURTING his FEELINGS!
I don’t believe anything what this Administration says.
Trump administration photoshop in 3, 2, 1...
This can't be the timeline I'm living in.
If you wake up first, please shake me awake as well.
Too late now, even if he gets pushed out all his minions have their crusty fingers in everything
I was sick of this guy at least back in 2022, and I don't work with the guy. Reading about his douchebaggery in his takeover of xitter was more than enough to flip the bozo bit on this guy.
From what I've read, this is kinda how he ran off the founders of Tesla.
Maybe that's his plan. Government takeover by cringe.
If republicans had senses of humor and hadn’t decided to boycott most entertainment except for things that are blatantly right leaning, they would have realized this a lot sooner.
Elon has control of nearly all government systems including the Treasury. How does Trump and company think this will go when they finally come to heads?
Hint: Trump will lose. Badly.
Relevant XKCD