Only Thing You Can Trust About Elon Musk Is That You Can’t Trust Anything He Says—Especially When His Mouth Is Open”

How Elon Musk Went From Electric Savior to Grifter King of the MAGA-verse

Elon Musk’s greatest invention isn’t Tesla, SpaceX, or a sentient AI that can draw pornographic images of George Washington—it’s the illusion of credibility. Musk has managed to con a generation into believing he’s Tony Stark with a Twitter account, when in reality he’s closer to a Mountain Dew-soaked Lex Luthor with a broadband hustle. His power lies not in innovation but in manipulation, and the one thing you can consistently count on is that he will contradict himself the moment the stock price wobbles or his feelings get hurt by a mean tweet.

Just ask Politico, which reported that Elon Musk—after years of positioning himself as a champion of free speech, an enemy of big government, and a new-age “centrist”—has suddenly begun pouring millions into far-right PACs. Not because of some principled stand, but because his ego and net worth are now fused like a Tesla battery pack. He needs the stock to stay inflated. And the political spending? It’s not about values. It’s insurance. It’s the billionaire’s version of shaking hands with the mob—keep the powerful happy, and maybe they’ll let you keep playing genius in public.

The truth is, if you strip away Musk’s Tesla stock, the man has all the charisma of a sunburn and none of the genius he claims to embody. This is a guy who didn’t invent Tesla but swooped in like a Reddit day-trader and rebranded the work of others as his own. He didn’t pioneer space travel; he privatized it with tax subsidies and frat boy memes. And now, he’s not defending democracy; he’s bankrolling its collapse.

But maybe Musk’s most disgusting pivot has come not in the markets, but in his ongoing crusade to reinvent history—specifically the racial history of South Africa, where he was born. Musk has used his platform to spread grotesque lies about so-called “white genocide,” parroting the fever dreams of white supremacist Telegram threads with the same fervor he once used to hock overpriced flamethrowers. He paints Black South Africans as violent, ungrateful threats to civilization while ignoring that his own family’s wealth—like much of apartheid-era privilege—was built on their subjugation. The myth of his self-made status is about as believable as his claims that he sleeps in the Tesla factory. (He doesn’t. He has a custom-designed mattress in a Texas compound and more NDAs than the Church of Scientology.)

And what does he do with that apartheid-adjacent privilege? He doubles down—cutting a sweetheart deal with the South African government to bring Starlink to the country just before Trump’s next campaign photo op. You’d think this would be a positive development, until you remember that Starlink is Musk’s way of monopolizing digital communication in underserved regions while pretending to be the hero. It’s the tech version of colonization with a press release. His company enters markets under the guise of “empowering the people” while controlling their information pipelines like a Bond villain with Wi-Fi.

And let’s not forget the Nazi salute. Oh, no, we’re not letting that one go.

Earlier this year, Musk was filmed appearing to give a Nazi-style salute, which he later dismissed as a joke, a “misunderstood gesture.” Funny how it’s always just a joke when rich white men flirt with fascism. “It’s just humor,” Musk said, like that excuse hasn’t been worn thin by every edgelord with a podcast and a Twitter bio that says “free thinker.” The problem is, Musk doesn’t just make the gesture—he inspires others to do the same. Every time he dog-whistles or flat-out roars his allegiance to regressive ideologies, he gives cover to thousands of others who think the best way to fight “wokeness” is to goose-step through public discourse.

This is who Elon Musk really is: a man with enough influence to shape public policy, but the judgment of a Reddit mod with access to government satellites. He’s not misunderstood. He’s not a maverick. He’s not even interesting. He’s a spoiled grifter whose greatest talent is convincing people that he’s a misunderstood genius when he’s really just a narcissist with broadband.

And let’s be clear: nothing about this is accidental. Musk’s rightward drift isn’t a bug—it’s a business model. He knows the MAGA base will forgive anything as long as it comes with a side of libs-owned rhetoric and an emoji. He doesn’t have to be consistent. He doesn’t have to be moral. He just has to feed the outrage machine while quietly brokering deals in the background.

And while we’re talking about bad investments, let’s take a moment to appreciate the Olympic-level stupidity it took for Musk to think his Tesla stock would somehow thrive after he wrapped himself in the MAGA flag and started tweeting like Doge was a political advisor. Did he really think the movement that believes climate change is a hoax perpetrated by Bill Gates was going to rally behind electric cars? MAGA doesn’t care about the environment—they’d barbecue Styrofoam if it owned the libs. The environmentalists are out, the conservatives were never in, and Musk is somehow shocked that his stock is tanking. But of course he’s shocked—because he only surrounds himself with glorified yes-men and sycophants who treat every bad decision like it’s the next moon landing. He could declare gasoline a vegetable and someone in the room would call it visionary.

Even the public persona is a scam. He’s the guy who once accused a cave rescuer of being a pedophile because he didn’t want to use Musk’s prototype submarine. He’s the one who fired employees for criticizing him, tanked Twitter’s value by installing himself as the unfunniest CEO alive, and then blamed “woke culture” for his inability to govern a digital platform like a grown-up. He’s the man who spent $44 billion on a website just to make it easier to ban journalists and boost conspiracy theorists.

Musk is what happens when capitalism confuses wealth with wisdom. He’s a blip in history pretending to be a beacon, a Silicon Valley hallucination with a troll army and a fleet of vanity rockets. The worst part? He’s not even new. Musk is just Henry Ford with a meme account. And just like Ford, he’ll be remembered less for what he built and more for the culture of fanaticism he enabled.

So no, you can’t trust anything Elon Musk says. Not his politics. Not his past. Not even his personality. The man has more reinventions than Madonna and fewer original ideas than a frat house brainstorming a crypto startup. He’ll say whatever keeps the money flowing and the spotlight shining—today it’s white genocide lies and Nazi salutes; tomorrow it’s Mars colonies and libertarian book bans.

The only constant with Musk is the grift.

And if you ever start to believe he’s changed or matured or finally “gets it,” just remember: Elon Musk is about as reliable as a Twitter poll, as consistent as a SpaceX rocket launch, and as truthful as a Facebook comment section run by bots.

Because at the end of the day, the only thing you can trust about Elon Musk… is that you can’t trust anything he says.