Musk Celebrates Dying of the ‘Departmen of S...

Elon Musk, the billionaire oligarch at the moment destroying the U.S. federal authorities, celebrated President Donald Trump’s govt order on Thursday that’s looking for to destroy the Division of Schooling in an appropriately silly and immature vogue. Musk shared a meme with X concerning the transfer that misspelled the phrase “division” within the Division of Schooling.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 20, 2025

Musk, who’s price $327 billion based on Forbes, spent a few quarter of a billion {dollars} serving to Trump get elected and was rewarded with a job within the new administration as the top of DOGE, the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity. The group doesn’t technically have the authority to run round to each federal company to smash them to smithereens, however that hasn’t stopped Musk and his goons from destroying the whole lot from everything of USAID to NIH funding.

Trump signed an govt order stating that Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon ought to dismantle the Division of Schooling, one thing Trump doesn’t even have the ability to do. Solely Congress has the authorized authority to create and destroy businesses. However that’s clearly not going to cease the destruction of the DOE, simply because it didn’t cease the destruction of USAID.

The picture Musk shared Thursday initially got here from actor Echo Kellum’s Instagram web page in 2020, the place he shared a photograph of actor Grant Gustin subsequent to the grave of comedian ebook character Oliver Queen. The grave is pretend, clearly, however has been repurposed for humorous intent repeatedly ever since. There’s additionally some query about whether or not Musk seen the misspelling earlier than he posted the meme. The meme is watermarked, suggesting he discovered it on X and quite than retweeting it, shared it in order that he alone would get the endorphin rush of seeing one thing retweeted as if he’d considered it. Musk didn’t reply to an electronic mail from Gizmodo looking for touch upon Thursday.

Musk has been expressing his disappointment on cable information over latest days, notably about the truth that Tesla dealerships hold getting focused by vandalism. However now that Musk is kind of the co-president with Trump, he’s capable of mobilize great sources to defend his property. Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi introduced on Thursday that terrorism prices can be introduced towards individuals who’ve been arrested for taking pictures up Tesla amenities and throwing Molotov cocktails. However even when the DOJ is ready to gradual the bodily assault on Tesla dealerships, there’s no signal that folks will begin shopping for the electrical automobiles once more.

Electrical car gross sales have been up total in February, based on the information outlet Inside EVs. However Tesla gross sales have been down 10% on the month.