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Trump officials growing tired of ‘unfunny’ and ‘irritating’ Musk

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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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numerous people claim to have witnessed him use LSD, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms behind closed doors
It's amazing that he can do LSD, mushrooms, and ex and still have zero empathy.
- 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.
- 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.
- Someone please go spike his coffee with whatever dosage is needed to trigger ego death
  
  Someone please go spike his coffee with whatever dosage is needed to trigger 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'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.
  
  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.
  
  It’s my eternal hope that the reddit puns never make their way to Lemmy. They’re always so bad.
  
  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
- 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
- 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.
  
  He's on a bender
- 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
BREAKING NEWS...
President Musk issues EO declaring he's funny.
First Buddy Trump agrees.
- Anyone who doesn’t laugh at Elon’s superior comedic talents and antics will be sent to a humor retraining camp
- 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
  
  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.
The richest man in the world isn't trying to help you. He's helping himself to whatever he wants. Super bad idea.
"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?
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.
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.
- Absolutely, these looks like a pat on the back to everyone to make them feel better about Elon and their country.
  Reeks of bullshit.
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
Not to mention the constant k-hole he seems to be in
Trump officials deserve everything that is coming to them, and that includes dealing with an attention-seeking narcissistic billionaire who owns their boss.
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?
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.
Too late now, even if he gets pushed out all his minions have their crusty fingers in everything
This can't be the timeline I'm living in.
- If you wake up first, please shake me awake as well.
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.
Trump administration photoshop in 3, 2, 1...
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
From what I've read, this is kinda how he ran off the founders of Tesla.

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