Elon Musk appeared in the White House with a black eye he said he got from rough-housing with his young son.
Elon Musk appeared alongside President Trump for a press conference in the Oval Office Friday, perhaps for the last time, with a noticeable black eye that he says he got from his young son.
“I said, ‘Go ahead, punch me in the face.’ And he did,” he said.
Musk is emerging from his five-month stint as head of DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency, with more than just a shiner. His company, Tesla, is hemorrhaging market share in key countries around the globe and recorded its first year-over-year quarterly sales decrease in almost five years. His reputation has plummeted, with a majority of US residents saying they dislike him. And his claims to have saved the government a trillion dollars by slashing “waste, fraud and abuse” seem to have mostly been a failure. One researcher tied Musk’s elimination of humanitarian aid funding to 300,000 deaths overseas, mostly children.
Musk has been feeling the blows, too. Sources in the Trump administration told Reutersthat the billionaire has been “exhausted and exasperated,” especially by the blowback against his companies. Tesla’s board reportedly initiated a search for a replacement CEO, a claim the directors have denied.
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Forget losing market share in key countries, he needs to be locked away in solitary for the rest of his miserable life
Nah, that’s too good for him.
He needs to work a minimum wage job for a living.
Why are we aiming so low, when the only justice is for his atoms to be repurposed as fuel for a bioreactor?
There is nothing but poetic justice to be found here, his debt to society is so great that he can never hope to repay it.
Googles door styles
Can confirm the presence of knobs in the White House.
And a failing business. No recovery because he already disclosed that he is a total nazi short of actually spelling it out. There’s no coming back from that.
“I said, ‘Go ahead, punch me in the face.’ And he did,” he said.
What did you fucking think was going to happen? Maybe next you should ask your kid to kick you in the balls.
