Elon Musk Is Annoying, Unfunny, and Should Probably Take a Drug Test, Trump Officials Reportedly Say

As a subordinate of the public, it’s been beauteous unbearable to ticker Elon Musk instrumentality a front-and-center relation successful the caller Trump administration. A preening, awkward spectacle of greed, stupidity, and self-importance, it’s casual to consciousness somewhat nauseated by the billionaire. According to a caller report, high-level members of the Trump medication consciousness the aforesaid way.

Rolling Stone claims that elder Trump officials person characterized the billionaire arsenic incredibly unfunny, radically annoying, “crazy,” and perchance successful request of regular, mandatory cause tests. The outlet reports:

Some elder Trump ad­ministration officials and Cabinet members person recovered themselves profoundly annoyed by Musk. Sec­retary of State Marco Rubio, 3 radical fa­miliar with the substance say, hasn’t hidden his ­disdain for Musk, with immoderate State Department officials nicknaming the Tesla billionaire “Crazy Uncle Elon,” 2 of those sources tell Rolling Stone.

The aforesaid officials told the mag that the billionaire has irritated furniture members truthful overmuch that they person wondered whether he’s connected drugs:

Musk has gnawed astatine the patience of an array of high-­ranking medication officials, to the constituent that — according to this authoritative and 2 others — Trump lieutenants person walked retired of meetings and earnestly asked 1 different if they thought Musk was high. Administration officials joked to 1 different astir subjecting Musk to mandatory cause testing, which Musk himself has said would beryllium a “great idea” for national employees.

It gets worse. “I person been successful the aforesaid country with Elon, and helium ever tries to beryllium funny. And he’s not funny. Like, astatine all,” the elder authoritative told the magazine. “He makes these jokes and small asides and smiles and past looks astir wounded if you don’t thigh up his humor. I support utilizing the connection ‘annoying’; a batch of radical who person to woody with him do.”

“But the connection doesn’t bash the concern justice,” they added. “Elon conscionable thinks he’s smarter than everyone other successful the country and acts similar it, adjacent erstwhile it’s wide helium doesn’t cognize what he’s talking about.”

The aforesaid idiosyncratic reportedly told the magazine: “Talking to the feline is sometimes similar listening to truly rusty nails connected a chalkboard,” adding: “He’s conscionable the astir irritating idiosyncratic I’ve ever had to woody with, and that is saying something.”

It’s unclear who the elder authoritative is. Musk has notably inspired a batch of animosity successful the government, including from Rubio, who has had ongoing spats with the billionaire implicit DOGE’s assertive cuts to the State Department. That said, the comments successful the nonfiction aren’t needfully indicative of wide sentiment. Instead, they bespeak that astatine slightest 1 senior-level Trump authoritative hates Elon’s guts. Gizmodo reached retired to Musk and the White House for comment.

Musk’s prima has notably waned successful caller weeks, arsenic nationwide protests person breached retired against him and his DOGE initiative. Americans are truthful pissed disconnected that the Trump Justice Department has had to deem vandalism against Tesla vehicles a “domestic terrorism” crime, arsenic Musk’s cars and Tesla showrooms person go the people of populist outrage. In general, Musk’s governmental “activism” does not look similar it’s been large for his businesses. Tesla income are down each implicit the world, and the company’s banal is successful escaped fall. On Thursday, Tesla stopped taking orders successful China for its models that are made successful the U.S., ensuring a further spiral astatine the company.

Hilariously, Musk was besides cyber-bullied during a caller livestream event successful which helium played an online video crippled portion riding connected his backstage jet. Angry commenters hijacked the game’s chat forum and flooded it with vitriol, suggesting that Musk has “NO REAL FRIENDS,” would “DIE ALONE,” and would “ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE” nary substance however overmuch wealth oregon powerfulness helium accrued. One idiosyncratic asked the Tesla CEO to “Please jerk off” President Trump “so helium dies of a bosom attack.” Some of the commenters had usernames like “ELON_IS_A_PEEDOPHILE” and “ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC.” It couldn’t person happened to a nicer guy.