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Elon Musk responds with 'laughing emojis' to stories of workers' lives he's ruined: report (www.rawstory.com)
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Elon Musk responds with 'laughing emojis' to stories of workers' lives he's ruined: report <<< "Clown Population" can not resist mocking every shake and move of Elon Musk + White House in 2024 & 2025 (www.rawstory.com)
 
 

Elon Musk responds with 'laughing emojis' to stories of workers' lives he's ruined: report

Brad Reed

April 10, 2025 3:17PM ET

Billionaire Elon Musk has gone on a mass firing spree of federal employees, and Rolling Stone reports he's been immensely enjoying himself while doing so.

According to sources who spoke with the magazine, Musk has regularly "privately messaged associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked" and "has been known to react with laugh-crying emojis" to their stories.

Musk's cavalier attitude toward fired federal employees was also confirmed on the record by Ben Vizzachero, a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National ­Forest who had been fired by Musk earlier this year.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Vizzachero described an encounter he'd had with Musk after seeing him at President Donald Trump's address before Congress.

"When a Democratic lawmaker invited Vizzachero as a guest to Trump’s joint address to Congress in March, he found himself seated near Musk," writes Rolling Stone. "He took the opportunity to confront the world’s richest man. According to Vizzachero, he described his job to Musk and asked: 'Am I waste?' He says Musk, 'with a very condescending smirk,' hit him with a line from the 1999 movie Office Space: 'What would you say you do here?'"

 

Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.

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Elon Musk responds with 'laughing emojis' to stories of workers' lives he's ruined: report (www.rawstory.com)
 
 

Summary

Elon Musk reportedly mocked federal employees he fired by privately reacting to their hardships with "laugh-crying emojis," according to Rolling Stone.

Sources say Musk finds amusement in stories of lives disrupted by his mass dismissals.

Ben Vizzachero, a fired wildlife biologist, confronted Musk at Trump’s congressional address and asked, "Am I waste?" Musk responded with a line from the 1999 movie Office Space: "What would you say you do here?"

Even Trump officials express frustration, calling Musk "irritating" and difficult to work with.

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