Elon Musk Responds to News of How He Was Humiliated

Elon Musk is having a mini-meltdown on his website after The Atlantic published a damning profile of his time at the White House, which details how he was humiliated by one of his superiors. Responding Wednesday to a tweet dissing the magazine, Musk wrote, under his newly re-adopted display name "Kekius Maximus" and accompanying AI-generated profile pic of himself as a Roman centurion: "They are the past, the legacy media fading into obscurity." https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1925315302591442996 And trust us, he didn't stop there. "The Atlantic is a zombie publication kept on life support by Laurene," Musk wrote, referring to its billionaire owner […]

May 23, 2025 - 22:40

Elon Musk Responds to News of How He Was Humiliated

Elon Musk took to his website to show how he was unfazed by the report that detailed how he was humiliated in the White House.

Elon Musk is having a mini-meltdown on his website after The Atlantic published a damning dive into his time at the White House, leading with a mortifying description of how he was humiliated by one of his superiors.

Responding Wednesday to a tweet dissing the magazine, Musk wrote, under his newly re-adopted display name "Kekius Maximus" and accompanying AI-generated profile pic of himself as a Roman centurion: "They are the past, the legacy media fading into obscurity."

Illustrating how definitely not-mad he was, Musk just kept posting through it.

"The Atlantic is a zombie publication kept on life support by Laurene," Musk wrote, referring to its billionaire owner Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. "Steve would be very disappointed."

Riffing with a user nicknamed "gork," who joked about Steve Jobs haunting Laurene from the grave, Musk posted a ghost emoji and a crying-laughing emoji.

Later, he stamped his seal of approval — a bullseye emoji paired with a crying laughing emoji, take note — on a joke made by "gork" about The Atlantic's "ghosted" readership. (The magazine surpassed 1 million subscriptions last year. X's userbase has been in a steady decline since Musk's takeover in 2022, losing nearly one-fifth of its daily active users in the US.)

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