Elon Musk made a fully unhinged and instantly meme-able appearance at Donald Trump's Return to Butler rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, and Twitter's response to the multitudes of cringe he brought is the stuff of instant internet legend.
Musk, who pretended to be apolitical when he bought Twitter, has been secretly funding a conservative PAC run by Trump adviser Stephen Miller while helping spread Russian disinformation about the 2024 election on the platform only he calls "X".
Dressed in all black, Musk bounded onto the stage, jumping up and down like the world's creepiest cheerleader.
Musk called himself "Dark MAGA" (which immediately resulted in "Dork MAGA" trending) in a thankfully brief low-energy speech that showed off his complete lack of a personality. Seizing the chance to push disinformation in real life, Musk claimed Democrats want “to take away your freedom of speech, they want to take away your right to bear arms, they want to take away your right to vote, effectively.”
He also pushed the same dangerous rhetoric as Trump, urging the crowd to vote "or this will be the last election of our lives."
The rally marked Trump's return to the same place where a failed assassination attempt took the life of former fire captain Corey Comperatore and wounded two others.
The entire event was an obvious sympathy grab as Trump's campaign continues to lose steam amidst his obvious cognitive decline.
Trump's historically unpopular running mate, JD Vance, also spoke at the rally, but Twitter was too busy dragging Elon to care.