Elon Musk waved a chainsaw when he appeared with far-right Argentine President Javier Milei at CPAC’s recent festival for fascists.

A New York Times newsletter discussed the onstage activity at CPAC.:

The episode showed how Musk doesn’t just cozy up to right-wing leaders — he also seems to copy them.

In 2022, Milei released a “chain saw plan” that would have cut public spending and sharply reduced the number of ministries in Argentina’s government. Milei showed up to campaign rallies with a functioning chain saw…

Once Milei took office, Musk showered him with online compliments and talked business with him behind closed doors. He has done the same with right-wing leaders in India and Brazil, in a convenient marriage of his political beliefs and his desire to make more money for his companies…

Musk’s embrace of the global right delighted the CPAC attendees, who welcomed him as one of their own…

In Foreign Policy, Professor of History Federico Finchelstein called Milei the “world’s latest wannabe fascist.”

Musk wrote on X in 2022, “Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America…”

The world’s richest hustler later decided it was more profitable to be pro-Trump. Serving the US president means several of Musk’s federal headaches could soon vanish.

Musk’s businesses are also intertwined with the federal government, pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars each year in contracts. SpaceX, for example, has secured nearly $20 billion in federal funds since 2008 to ferry astronauts and satellites into space. Tesla, meanwhile, has received $41.9 million from the U.S. government, including payment for vehicles provided to some U.S. embassies.

In February 2025, the FAA agreed to use Musk’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the technology networks used to manage US airspace. Of course, this is evidence of another of Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest.

Even without his massive conflicts, Is Elon Musk qualified to restructure programs created by elected representatives of the people?

Musk is the man who promised humans would be on Mars by 2024. He said Tesla would offer full self-driving by 2018, with cars able to move from coast to coast without human intervention.

In 2020, Musk said that people worried about the coronavirus were dumb. My extremely bright relation who was recently hospitalized with COVID would disagree.

In 2022, Musk likened Justin Trudeau to Hitler, a man responsible for hundreds of millions of casualties in WW2. As far as I can tell, Trudeau is responsible for ZERO wartime deaths.

In 2024, Musk argued against government subsidies for others. His own companies had already enjoyed more than $5 billion in subsidies, with more billion to come.

In 2021, a female worker said sexual harassment at Tesla was rampant. She alleged the Musk company had nightmarish conditions and a factory that resembled a frat house.

Does anyone remember Hyperloop? A dozen years ago, Musk promised that people would be transported between Los Angeles and San Francisco in 35 minutes with a ticket cost of $20. The system was also to carry vehicles and general freight. Polymath Patrick Boyle talks about how Hyperloop fared in this video, starting at 22:28.