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.
Keep in mind this is the absolute funniest he has ever been. A pun with a punchline and no setup.
The best he has ever done is get 50% of the way to a mildly funny joke. With his trademark inability to read the room on top !
(and don’t tell me that’s because he’s autistic. I’m autistic, we’re disadvantaged in this domain but we can learn to do it all the same. He either doesn’t know or doesn’t care, most likely the latter.)
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