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“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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    “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.

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      he already revealed what he thinks is comedy when he talked about his pitch to SNL. it’s unbelievable.

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          I couldn’t take the suspense and I had to look it up.

          Musk also told the crowd that he didn’t like the ideas he was presented with early in the week. “I was a bit worried at the beginning there,” he said, “because frankly nothing was funny.”

          He then went on to reveal his idea of funny, describing one pitch in particular that did not go over well.

          “One of the things that everyone’s been wondering this whole time is: Is Saturday Night Live actually live… or do they have a delay just in case there’s a wardrobe malfunction or something like that?,” Musk said to set up the pitch. “But there’s a way to test this.” (SNL does, in fact, air without a tape delay.)

          In Musk’s vision, he’d tell the audience he was going to put this to the test by taking “his cock out.”

          “So I’m going to reach down into my pants… and then I pull out a baby rooster,” Musk explained. “Like, ‘This is my tiny cock.’”

          Unfortunately, the joke didn’t end there.

          “And then Kate McKinnon walks out,” added Jason Calacanis, co-host of the All-In Podcast, who was also present in the pitch meeting. “And she says, ‘Elon, I expected you would have a bigger cock.’”

          McKinnon, meanwhile, would have been holding a cat.

          “You can see where this is going,” Musk told the crowd

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            And that’s what didn’t get in.

            His episode ranks up among the worst examples of episodes ruined by the host (another famously bad one was Steven Seagal).

            SNL lets the host drive much of the theme of an episode, and his was a particularly bad stinker.

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            You’re absolutely right - the article did this no justice. The text is quite cringey on its own, but this is… Even more yikes.

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        His reaction to the dead deer in the pewdiepie episode all those years ago was what first caught my eye about this lol

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    Trump officials deserve everything that is coming to them, and that includes dealing with an attention-seeking narcissistic billionaire who owns their boss.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.