It’s been a weird few weeks for Elon Musk since he decided to throw his political—and financial—weight behind Donald Trump’s campaign for presidential re-election. The thrice-divorced father of 12 has been shouting into his Twitter account with increasingly unhinged tirades. In just the last 24 hours he has parroted neo-Nazi propaganda that Haitian immigrants are eating cats in rural Ohio, and tweeted at Taylor Swift that he would “give her a child.” That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Whatever is going on in his brain, it’s not good.
The algorithm he owns has been feeding the multi-billionaire South African opinions and narratives detached from reality, and in the face of the cold truth he retreats deeper into internet hell. If Trump wins his campaign in November, Elon Musk has earned himself a ticket to Washington as the head of a “government efficiency commission.”
Here’s a rundown of how the last few weeks have been for Elon Musk as a Republican Party operative.