Trump officials think Elon Musk is a drugged-out, unfunny, annoying loser

Recently, Rolling Stone published an article called “Inside Elon Musk’s Gleeful Destruction of the Government.” It’s a pretty thorough summary of Musk’s drugged-out lunacy since January 20, 2025, from the mass firings, the installation of the dipsh-t incel youths at DOGE, the fraud, the corruption, the tampering with Social Security and on and on. It’s genuinely terrifying, but I also don’t feel like looking at any of these people with terror. They might kill us all (it’s very likely), but I’ll be damned if I’m going to cower in fear. Mostly because these are some of the biggest f–king losers on the planet. All of that money, all of that access, and Musk is just breaking the government because he hopes that people on the internet will laugh at his pathetic jokes. People within the Trump administration know Musk is a loser too, and they hate his ugly guts. From RS:

Throughout the chaos and confusion of Trump’s return to power, Musk also strove to cultivate the image he’s long maintained as a workhorse, showman, and expert in varied fields. He reportedly told friends he was sleeping at DOGE offices, rehashing claims he previously made about sleeping on a Tesla factory floor. He’s continually posted grandiose and often inaccurate estimates of how much money DOGE has saved.

And he seemed to relish his role as an all-powerful agitator. Musk began regularly smearing his enemies as “r–ards” on X and targeting judges who ruled against the administration or blocked DOGE’s incursions. He grew bold enough to describe Social Security, long considered untouchable, as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”

At the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Musk waved around a chain saw he said would slice through “bureaucracy” — this on the same day that his former partner Grimes publicly begged him on X to respond to her about a medical crisis experienced by one of their three children.

“I am become meme,” he said onstage. “I’m living the meme. You know, it’s like, there’s living the dream, and there’s living the meme, and that’s pretty much what’s happening.” The bizarre CPAC appearance prompted speculation about Musk’s state of mind and recreational drug use, as he was wearing sunglasses inside and had difficulty stringing sentences together. People close to Musk have told The Wall Street Journal they have known him to use illegal drugs, including LSD, cocaine, Ecstasy, and mushrooms — a source of concern for some of the board members over­seeing his companies. (Musk has denied using illegal drugs, though he has spoken about his use of prescription ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic.)

Some senior Trump ad­ministration officials and Cabinet members have found themselves deeply annoyed by Musk. Sec­retary of State Marco Rubio, three people fa­miliar with the matter say, hasn’t hidden his ­disdain for Musk, with some State Department officials nicknaming the Tesla billionaire “Crazy Uncle Elon,” two of those sources tell Rolling Stone.

“I have been in the same room with Elon, and he always tries to be funny. And he’s not funny. Like, at all,” says a senior Trump administration official. “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. But the word doesn’t do the situation justice. Elon just thinks he’s smarter than everyone else in the room and acts like it, even when it’s clear he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

Musk has gnawed at the patience of an array of high-­ranking administration officials, to the point that — according to this official and two others — Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high. Administration officials joked to one another about subjecting Musk to mandatory drug testing, which Musk himself has said would be a “great idea” for federal employees. (A lawyer for Musk has said he’s “regularly and randomly drug-tested at SpaceX and has never failed a test.”)

“Talking to the guy is sometimes like listening to really rusty nails on a chalkboard,” says the senior Trump administration official, who adds that Musk is not much of a team player, either. “He’s just the most irritating person I’ve ever had to deal with, and that is saying something.”

[From Rolling Stone]

Earlier this month, Trump began telling people that Musk would be “stepping back soon.” But… Musk was in Trump’s Cabinet meeting last week, and Musk apparently addressed the Cabinet, sitting across from Trump. My vibe is that Musk is clinging to “power” and Trump is trying to break it off gently. But who knows – I’ve actually been surprised by Trump’s tolerance for Musk in the past six months, because Musk truly is that profoundly gross and uncool. It also wouldn’t surprise me if Musk was just constantly getting high and Trump had no idea.

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38 Responses to “Trump officials think Elon Musk is a drugged-out, unfunny, annoying loser”

  1. wolfmamma says:

    The crumbling has begun..

    • Tulipworthy says:

      Please let this be true.

      • Deering24 says:

        Eheheh. The Nazis’ fall was in great part due to the fact Hitler’s staff and the Germany Army were drugged to the gills so they could work 24/7. Benzedrine burned out/OD’d a lot of soldiers alone. Glad to see history repeating…

    • Lau says:

      You have to appreciate the simple things in life nowadays, like facists turning against one another. I hope they start really hurting each other now, mutual destruction.

    • ncboudicca says:

      Eh, he was seated at ringside (along with his toddler shield) right next to Trump at the UFC event Saturday night. Even if everyone else hates him, Trump either can’t or doesn’t want to get rid of him.

      • orangeowl says:

        I tend to think Trump can’t get rid of him because of all the money Elon donated to his campaign. Still, I’d love to see their relationship implode. How much longer do we have to be subjected to this lunacy?

  2. Eurydice says:

    Imagine how gross Elon must be to offend Trump’s officials.

  3. chill says:

    Trump and his administration deserve Musk. They are the dream team. Dream on.

    • Zaftig & Kitty says:

      I honestly think that Trump keeps him around because Musk gets the lion share of the ridicule, and I hate to say this, but Trump looks better when you compare the two.

  4. bisynaptic says:

    F—Elon.

  5. Libra says:

    Musk is not going quietly. What is it he’s holding over Trump that insures his survival? Must be big. Election fraud? ?Money laundering??

  6. FYI says:

    Wait, are we talking about “high-end” officials like Hegseth and RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel, exactly NONE of whom are qualified to hold their positions? They’re ANNOYED, are they??!!? It’s IRRITATING to them that a lunatic on ketamine is running around with a chainsaw and grabbing data from every. single. government agency!?!? He’s destroying the entire government, and they’re complaining he’s not funny?!?! He’s abusing his child before their very eyes, and they’re JOKING about drug-testing him?

    They are amoral and complicit. Absolutely complicit in all of it. Screw them.

  7. Wow just like trump!! A drugged out unfunny loser!!!

  8. Leidy Munoz says:

    He’s a lunatic, but he’s not stupid. I just heard Carol Cadwalladr of the Guardian talk about what the tech bros have in mind for us- and I’m still in shock.

    Elon is hard at work mining govenment data. He has free range over Social Security, IRS, Medicare, and god knows what other agencies.

    As Google, Meta, and the Chinese government know, that’s the valuable stuff. Elon’s not going anywhere.

    • Alice B. Tokeless says:

      Actually, by most accounts from those who’ve spent time with him through the years, yes he is stupid. He’s simply not smart. He may not be quite as aggressively stupid as trump, but he’s not far behind.

      • HelloDannie says:

        Exactly, he was simply born into wealth and used his privilege to buy up tech companies and take credit for their innovations. Any rich fool can do that.

    • GrnieWnie says:

      I find him incredibly stupid. I was a policy analyst for years. The very first time I saw him blather his opinions about “free speech” and fertility rates on the internet, I knew that man was a moron.

    • bisynaptic says:

      Her talk was 😳.

  9. It Really Is You, Not Me says:

    I am currently halfway through Walter Isaacson‘s biography on musk, and I never fully appreciated before how much his work for DOGE is applying the principles he has applied to disrupting car manufacturing and space exploration in the business world to the government. He believes in challenging requirements and the way things have always been done. He believes in cutting and destroying first and then adding back where needed. there’s a quote from Musk that once he cuts, if he doesn’t add back in at least 10% of what he’s cut that means The cuts weren’t deep enough to begin with. The problem is, the government doesn’t work the same way that tech businesses do and the stakes are much higher. People really get hurt when these cuts are not carefully planned and implemented. I think musk has finally met his Waterloo. He’s not going to have the same power when the Repubs get done with him.

    • GrnieWnie says:

      Who could’ve ever conceptualized the possibility that government doesn’t work like a corporation….no, never could’ve imagined that.

      God, I wish this anachronistic twatwaffle would go back to the 1980s where he belongs with his “government waaaaaaaaste” drivel.

  10. Jaded says:

    When trash like Hegseth, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel etc. start calling Muskrat a drugged out, unfunny, annoying loser you KNOW things are bad, the administration is circling the drain. One the one hand I’m enjoying watching this presidency self-destruct from a distance (I’m Canadian) but on the other I’m fearful of the nightmare that could be unleashed by “Trusk” unless they’re both reined in, but they’re surrounded by sycophantic boot-lickers all clawing their way to wealth and power…I doubt any of them have the guts to walk away from it and do the right thing.

  11. EasternViolet says:

    If the dumping of Musk does not happen quickly, its because he told some sort of info on Trump and is using it as blackmail to retain his position. Sad.

    • Betsy says:

      Elon is the reason Trump won. I think Elon’s too frigging stupid to have hacked the tabulators himself, but I have no doubt that he was able to hire people to do it, hence he is the reason Trump won.

      Elon isn’t going anywhere. They swim together and they will sink together, but until someone gets loose lips – or until the election officials, governors and the media pick up what the GOP did to win in 2024, which they so far have not – they’re not sinking. We’re stuck with the well-larded nest of fascist GOP hornets.

  12. pyritedigger says:

    Musk isn’t going anywhere. He will get everything he bought and paid for.

  13. Maja says:

    No one who has directly and personally supported Tr, who has done his dirty work, has ever come out of this relationship without major damage. It will be the same with Elon. I don’t understand how anyone can support Tr knowing his history?

    • Betsy says:

      Those people are but speed bumps so far. A true reckoning hasn’t happened, and no one has really gotten damaged. Giuliani probably the worst/most publicly, but otherwise delusion and the forgetful nature of people means no one else has really had to deal with this.

      Now history would point out several reckonings, but with a feckless Democratic Party and a fascist media, it ain’t happening for a while.

      • FYI says:

        Michael Cohen went to prison. Allen Weisselberg went to prison. The J6 people went to prison. I think all of them would say they’ve been majorly damaged, because prison is no fun, no matter how short your sentence is.
        But, you’re right, the consequences don’t fit the crimes.

  14. olliesmom says:

    He’s actually worse than that. He’s straight up evil.

  15. Betsy says:

    Newsflash to the losers working for Trump who somehow think they’re better than Elon: you’re all in the pig sit together. You’re no better than that drugged out loser. You all suck, you’re all fascists, and not a one of you will be remembered well by history.

  16. StLuGal says:

    He’s not just breaking things to feel powerful. He’s ensuring future wealth by reassigning contracts to his own companies via StarLink. Once this admin is out of office, the next one will have to look for every tendril of Musk throughout all the agencies to root it all out.

    I believe that’s Musk’s motivation. It’s money. He’s only rich on paper and he’s majorly leveraged.

  17. Traveller says:

    Hey, I agree with trump officials…that’s a first (and only)

  18. Shoegirl77 says:

    As ever, my thought is What is Vance doing while this stuff rages on? Feels like he’s giving Musk and Trump enough rope to hang themselves before he steps in to 25th amendment Trump because of diminished capacity.

  19. NotSoSocialB says:

    I find him to be so gross and supremely unattractive (he is the embodiement of that hand-drawn, lined face man meme) but MY GOD his hands are fkn HIDEOUS! Even worse than his face. I need brain bleach.

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