Internet Viciously Memes Elon Musk’s Jumpy Trump Rally Appearance

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/memes-elon-musk-jump-trump-rally-1235127309/

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  1. recalculating-route on

    Of all people, Elon should be able to appreciate this, being the meme lord that he is.

  2. Someone should splice Elon’s cringe performance in with that Microsoft Windows launch video from the 90’s where Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer jump around and dance awkwardly on stage for an uncomfortably long time.

  3. ***From Rolling Stone’s Peter Wade:***

    *The tech billionaire declared himself “dark MAGA” and got mocked for it on the social media network he owns.*

    Elon Musk joined Donald Trump on stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the assassination attempt that killed firefighter Corey Comperatore and injured Trump and others. But this was not a solemn occasion.

    As Musk took the stage in an all-black MAGA cap and “Occupy Mars” t-shirt, he bounced up and down, launching countless memes as the internet mocked him — often on X (formerly Twitter), the social media site Musk purchased for $44 billion in 2022. Recently, Musk shared that the company is now valued at just $19 billion, a $25 billion decline.

    Critiques of Musk’s jumping technique pointed out just how awkward he looked as well as Trump’s visual disgust when Musk took the stage. As Rolling Stone reported in August, Trump thinks Musk is “weird,” “boring,” annoying and has mood swings. In 2022, Trump publicly called Musk “another bullshit artist.”

    Users on Threads took the photo of Musk’s leaps and inserted it into famous movie moments, including Jack and Rose’s romantic embrace on the bow of the Titanic, Patrick Swayze’s finale lift in Dirty Dancing, and, of course, Musk as Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker dancing down the stairs.

    More: [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/memes-elon-musk-jump-trump-rally-1235127309/](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/memes-elon-musk-jump-trump-rally-1235127309/)

  4. This kind of reminds me of Tom Cruise jumping up on Oprah’s couch in the early day of his relationship with Katie Holmes. I hope Elon gets mocked at least as much as Tom did for that.

  5. Rated_PG-Squirteen on

    Stuart from MadTV is gonna go into an even deeper K-hole than usual after all of the online ridicule.

  6. He could have gone down in the history books as a famous person, but instead he decided to pick infamous.

  7. Isn’t he the CEO of many companies? How can those shareholders have any confidence in company leadership?

  8. homelander__6 on

    RNC: “Sir, we got the brain worms guy to campaign with us and people still think we’re weird!”

    Trump: “have Elon make an appearance, what could go wrong?”

  9. strange_stairs on

    Somebody commented “it’s the MAGA Rapture”. That was the funniest shit I’ve seen, yet.

  10. I know Musk has some generational, Hall of Fame tier dickriders but this is legacy ending behavior. Actual negative aura.

  11. TheBodyPolitic1 on

    Musk has been reported as being on various drugs. I guess this was no exception.