Elon Musk is never far from the news these days, but alongside allegations he's secretly fathered a 13th child and his ex making public pleas to him on X, these are just a few of the reasons he continues to grab headlines.
When he's not trying to rescue astronauts from the International Space Station or batting off accusations from his own father that he's a bad dad, Elon Musk is taking his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency very seriously. Although it's not an official position within the White House, Musk has certain powers as a "special government employee."
The head of the DOGE has vowed to try and slash $2 trillion from government spending, but as well as facing some severe backlash from the public, he's also been ordered to destroy financial information on millions of Americans.
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Musk recently sent shockwaves around the world by putting Medicare in his crosshairs at the Conservative Political Action Conference, but this was far from the conference's wildest moment involving the world's richest man. During one bizarre interaction, Argentinian President and Trump ally Javier Milei presented Musk with a gilded chainsaw. While taking to the stage with Newsmax host Rob Schmitt on the second day of CPAC, Milei gave Musk the chainsaw as a metaphor for the cuts he's making to the federal government.
When we thought the Tesla CEO being handed a sci-fi picture of himself was the strangest moment, Musk was keen to top it.
Others were confused by Musk's general appearance and why he spent the entire right-wing conference wearing a pair of oversized sunglasses.
Wearing sunglasses and a gold chain, Musk also sported a top that read, “I’m not procrastinating I’m doing side quests."
Musk became a series of soundbites, saying, "I am become meme," at one point and then adding, "My mind is a storm."
Critics said he could barely string a sentence together, and while Grimes was trending at the time, the second trending topic was 'ketamine' as X was flooded with claims that the billionaire had taken an illicit substance.
At least we've gotten to the bottom of why he was wearing sunglasses, with Musk confirming it was related to a promise in 2024 that he made if Donald Trump was elected President again.
In another memeworthy rant, Musk doubled down on Trump's claims that the Fort Knox gold depository isn't real. The POTUS said he wanted to visit the military base to make sure the gold is there," while Musk expanded at CPAC by saying: "We just wanna see it and make sure somebody didn’t spray paint lead or something."
Musk was followed on the stage by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, who has called Musk a 'parasitic illegal immigrant' that “wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values or traditions." Although some were hoping for a Mike Tyson and Logan Paul-inspired clash between the pair, they didn't share the stage.
Despite his critics, Musk got some of the biggest cheers of the conference and earned many a standing ovation.