The billionaire has made a lot of bold claims this year after throwing his weight behind Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Following Trump’s win, Musk was named the head of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Elon Musk has claimed he is a 3,000 year old vampire alien (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
However, just when you think you’ve heard it all – things can only get more bizarre.
Now the Tesla boss has claimed that he is a ‘3,000-year-old time-traveling and a vampire alien’.
Musk seems to spend a lot of time writing posts on his own social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Making light of his presence on the site, the SpaceX CEO shared a meme which read: “Would you believe it, my neighbor was knocking on my door at 2.30 this morning.
“Luckily I was still up playing my bagpipes”.
In response, one user wrote: “You don’t sleep because you’re a vampire?”
Along with their reply, they shared a previous tweet from Musk which read: “Full disclosure, I’m actually a 3,000 year old vampire. It’s such a trial assuming all these false identities over the centuries!”
Musk responded to the user with: “I’m a time-traveling vampire” before adding that he is also an ‘alien’.
Elon Musk will be the new head of DOGE (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images)
Other users also took to X to respond to the billionaire.
One user wrote: “ELON WHY ARE YOU STILL AWAKE.”
Another said: “Elon has memes on standby for any situation lmao.”
And a third person added: “It’s nice knowing that Elon also has insomnia like the rest of us.”
Speaking about Musk’s new role, Trump has revealed that DOGE will conduct a ‘complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government, and making recommendations for drastic reforms’.
In a statement, Musk said: “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!”
The department won’t be full-time and will end on July 4 2026, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Trump has said that a more efficient government will be a ‘gift’ to the country on that day.
At a rally, the president-elect spoke about Musk’s role, saying: “I don’t think I can get him full-time because he’s a little bit busy sending rockets up and all the things he does.
“He said the waste in this country is crazy. And we’re going to get Elon Musk to be our cost-cutter.”
The tech mogul’s net worth just surpassed $300 billion after last month’s US election welcomed Donald Trump back to the White House.
According to estimates from Forbes magazine, Musk is believed to have added more than $54 billion to his net worth since the November 5 election.
“Musk has made quite the bet by investing millions of dollars in the Trump campaign,” said Matt Mittelsteadt, a research fellow at the Mercatus Centre at George Mason University. “Now that Mr Trump has been elected, I think that bet is very much paying off.”
If the trend continues then the Tesla CEO could become the first trillionaire within the next three years.
Elon Musk’s net worth has surpassed $300 billion (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Despite his skyrocketing net worth, there have been claims in the past that Musk’s living situation is far from extravagant.
According to his ex-partner Grimes, the SpaceX founder takes a very stripped-back approach.
In an interview with Vanity Fair back when they were together, she revealed that Musk apparently ‘lives at times below the poverty line’.
She continued: “To the point where I was like, ‘Can we not live in a very insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbours, like, film us, and there’s no security, and I’m eating peanut butter for eight days in a row?’”
In recent years, Musk has been selling off his expensive property portfolio for years, sticking to his vow to get rid of his possessions to help fund his Mars colony dream.
So far, he’s been sticking to his word and the last home he sold was in San Francisco for $130 million.
Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Now Musk claims to reside in a modest three-bedroom tiny home on Boca Chica/Starbase in Texas which he rents from SpaceX for less than $50,000.
Musk made a post about it on his own platform X, formerly Twitter, saying: “My primary home is literally a ~$50k house in Boca Chica / Starbase that I rent from SpaceX. It’s kinda awesome though.
“Only house I own is the events house in the Bay Area. If I sold it, the house would see less use, unless bought by a big family, which might happen some day.”
The 20-by-20-foot prefab unit is made by Boxabl, a startup aiming to transform housing by creating foldable homes that are pre-made on a factory assembly line.
It’s designed like a studio apartment, with a large room divided into a living and sleeping area, a fully equipped kitchen, and a bathroom with a tub shower.
After feuding with hacking group Anonymous, Jimmy Kimmel, and SNL, it appears that Elon Musk’s next target is father time itself.
The Tesla and SpaceX owner has been active in declaring big changes following his appointment as the head of a new private advisory board named the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’.
Part of his manifesto so far has been to save America from impending ‘bankruptcy’, which has led cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and even Dogecoin to surge in value.
However, his sights are now set on a slightly less immediate target, as the tech mogul has now claimed that he will get rid of Daylight Savings Time (DST).
If you’re unaware, DST begins on the second Sunday of March every single year in the United States, moving the clocks forward one hour. It then ends, moving back an hour again, at the first Sunday of November.
It has remained a point of contention for many as people find the inconsistency frustrating and difficult to deal with, but in practice it provides longer days where the sun sets later.
It was first introduced in the US during the First World War as a measure to conserve energy, but has since persisted and remains in practice now.
Social media users on the r/elonmusk subreddit are very much split on the idea. One user pleads: “I need my sunlight after work (crying emoji),” whereas another argues that it “was created for farmers [and] I am pretty sure the farmers don’t even want it.”
Some even argue that instead of removing DST, it should become a permanent feature: “If you want it to stay light later into the day, you want permanent DST. I like to see the sun at some point during the day… so this is my vote.”
It’s unclear at the moment whether Musk intends to move to year-round standard time, or favor the schedule of DST in the winter months.
Could Musk vs. DST be the next Paul vs. Tyson? (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Some, however, are beginning to question whether Musk even has the power to enact these changes – as the budget-cutting agency should in theory have nothing to do with time regulations.
“DST starts and ends with an act of Congress, so nothing D.O.G.E can do about it.”
Another user agrees with this sentiment: “How does DOGE pass laws through Congress? And what ever happened to states rights being important?”
It’s clear that perhaps there’s been a miscommunication over what DOGE can and cannot do, but it might be naïve to think that the richest man in the world’s brief posts on X will do much to expand on that.
As we reach for the stars, Musk’s role as the CEO of SpaceX sees the world’s most dominant space launch provider soaring in popularity.
Not everyone is impressed with Musk’s role as a wannabe spaceman, and among them is astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
When asked about the world’s richest man’s plans to colonize Mars during an interview on Real Time with Bill Maher, deGrasse Tyson said he has ‘strong views on that.’
In a particularly charged statement, deGrasse Tyson explained: “My read of the history of space exploration is such that we do big, expensive things only when it’s geopolitically expedient, such as we feel threatened by an enemy.”
He suggested that Musk is focusing on Mars because ‘it’s the next thing to do’ and accused the billionaire of being a venture capitalist who could cost people their lives by going to Mars. The astrophysicist also says that Musk will struggle to find investors willing to stump up the cash to send us to Mars.
Adding that President-elect Trump has an interest in Mars, deGrasse Tyson says we might be having another conversation in a couple of months.
Still, he concluded: “At some point, somebody has to pay for it, and just being interested in something is not the same thing as paying for it.”
Never one to take things lying down, Musk has sniped back on X, writing: “Wow, they really don’t get it. Mars is critical to the long-term survival of consciousness.
“Also, I’m not going to ask any venture capitalists for money. I realize that it makes no sense as an investment. That’s why I’m gathering resources.”
After his appointment as the co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has vowed to slash $2 trillion from government spending.
He sees this as key in helping his Starship program flourish, which suggests he’ll be plowing some of those savings back into his own work.
Still, deGrasse Tyson is one of many who’ve taken issue with Musk’s plans.
Astronomer Martin Rees has referred to it as a ‘dangerous illusion,’ while David Kipping, the Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy at Columbia University, said there are legitimate concerns that it’s ‘totally crazy.’ Despite those against Musk, he’s powering ahead with his grand plans to get a million people to Mars. With Musk set to become the world’s first trillionaire and having more than enough money to make his Mars colonization a reality, deGrasse and the rest of the science bros might have to grin and bear it.
Somehow the world’s richest man has been able to find time in-between running X (formerly Twitter), SpaceX, Tesla, and even new government agency DOGE to play Diablo 4 – breaking quite a significant record in the process.
Elon Musk has never shied away from sharing his passion for gaming, and while that has at times left him ridiculed for some rather odd build choices in the past, this recent achievement is something you certainly can’t deny.
While the tech mogul is known for his countless fights on social media, he’s now taken the battle to the dungeons of Diablo 4, where he has been able to clear the Artificer’s Pit in record time.
The Artificer’s Pit, specifically level 150, is where the game ranks its top players, as shown on helltides.com.
Musk’s clear time of 1 minute and 52 seconds – which he has posted to X as proof – would sit above the current world record time of 1:59, held by ‘Resistance’, if it’s accepted by the rankings.
In his post on X, Musk states: “So many life lessons to be learned from speedrunning video games on max difficulty. Teaches you to see the matrix, rather than simply exist in the matrix.”
Like many of the other top players, Musk used the currently-bugged Quill Volley Spiritborn, which allows players to output significantly higher damage than anything else in the game right now.
Some don’t believe that Musk is being truthful about his character (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
People on social media still aren’t convinced of this feat though, as one post on the r/diablo subreddit has many detractors.
“The best player,” one commenter proposes, “or the one who can buy the best items with his infinite money?”
Another argues that they “don’t believe it, especially after seeing how messed up his build was on Elden Ring.”
There is an overriding belief that it’s impossible for the account to be fully controlled by the multi-billionaire though, as according to one user it would require “10+ hours of playtime every day since the season began,” which would be seemingly impossible for someone with as many responsibilities as Musk.
While Elon did give his top podcast recommendations while on the stream, the lack of a camera – especially while as the record was achieved – does lead some to remain skeptical.
