It’s hard to choose at this point
Elon Musk is not just a liar; he’s a pathological liar. The creation of DOGE was nothing short of a hoax on the American people. To cover his own fraud, Musk deleted his self-given kudos that were not kudos at all. All he and Donald Trump have done is make life more difficult for people in this country, especially the mess they created for Social Security.
Musk had nothing positive to say about Social Security other than it is rampant with fraud-from alleged fraudulent calls to dead people collecting benefits. Instead of “fixing” those problems, Musk caused people who aren’t dead to be declared dead, holding up their benefits, and in some cases, causing funds to be stripped from their accounts. Considering that none of this was true, what was the point? According to the Daily Beast, Musk’s own fraud tracker found two out of 110,000 calls to SSA had a “high probability” of being fraudulent. Instead of the 40% of fraud that Musk and Trump claimed, the instance of fraud is .0018%, which is basically nothing. A magazine called Federal Computer Week reviewed Musk’s anti-fraud procedures and declared them as doing more harm than good, and they found the policies to be “a degradation of public service.” Musk has done nothing but lie to meet his own ends, such as getting his fellow Afrikaners to the U.S. while millions do suffer from political persecution in their homelands but have been blocked.
According to Business Insider, Musk is a co-founder of OpenAI (but is no longer on the BOD). Musk has a form of AI on X called a “Grok.” The Grok is bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa, and it even posts under posts unrelated to South Africa. It’s as if this thing is trying to brainwash any and everyone who sees it. Now, according to Musk (who isn’t exactly adept at the truth), “an unauthorized modification” was made on the back end, which caused the Grok to lie, and Elon Musk had nothing to do with it (sure). This is why the media cannot get a comment from him. When you consider that Musk has repeatedly claimed persecution of whites in South Africa, including his July 2023 post: “They are openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa. @CyrilRamaphosa, why do you say nothing?” Musk further claims that he cannot get a license for Starlink because he’s not Black. Perhaps they just don’t want to help a liar, regardless of race. Being wrong doesn’t matter to Trump and Musk, though it matters to others like the Episcopalian Church and Pope Leo XIV, who barely acknowledged JD Vance following his inaugural mass.
The Trump administration has created no friends in world. In fact, theirs is the most disliked administration in modern history worldwide. As Politico wrote: “The world is more divided than ever, but there’s still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The U.S. is unloved.” China, a communist country, rates higher than the U.S. Trump is even more disliked worldwide than Vladimir Putin. He might want to pay attention.
Shirley is a former entertainment writer and has worked in the legal field for over 25 years