Trump Officials Growing Tired of ‘Unfunny’ and ‘Irritating’ Musk
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“He’s just the most irritating person I’ve ever had to deal with, and that is saying something,” one official reportedly said.

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“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.

  • @pyre@lemmy.world
    19•2 days ago

    he already revealed what he thinks is comedy when he talked about his pitch to SNL. it’s unbelievable.

      • @CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world
        29•2 days ago

        I couldn’t take the suspense and I had to look it up.

        Musk also told the crowd that he didn’t like the ideas he was presented with early in the week. “I was a bit worried at the beginning there,” he said, “because frankly nothing was funny.”

        He then went on to reveal his idea of funny, describing one pitch in particular that did not go over well.

        “One of the things that everyone’s been wondering this whole time is: Is Saturday Night Live actually live… or do they have a delay just in case there’s a wardrobe malfunction or something like that?,” Musk said to set up the pitch. “But there’s a way to test this.” (SNL does, in fact, air without a tape delay.)

        In Musk’s vision, he’d tell the audience he was going to put this to the test by taking “his cock out.”

        “So I’m going to reach down into my pants… and then I pull out a baby rooster,” Musk explained. “Like, ‘This is my tiny cock.’”

        Unfortunately, the joke didn’t end there.

        “And then Kate McKinnon walks out,” added Jason Calacanis, co-host of the All-In Podcast, who was also present in the pitch meeting. “And she says, ‘Elon, I expected you would have a bigger cock.’”

        McKinnon, meanwhile, would have been holding a cat.

        “You can see where this is going,” Musk told the crowd

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        • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
          9•2 days ago

          Yuck. All those people laughing in that over-the-top way at his desperate attempt at humor, delivered so smugly.

          • @pyre@lemmy.world
            11•2 days ago

            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.

            • @Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
              1•13 hours ago

              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

    • @bfg9k@lemmy.world
      5•2 days ago

      His reaction to the dead deer in the pewdiepie episode all those years ago was what first caught my eye about this lol