October is already full of surprises in this election cycle. But when Elon Musk announced he would join Donald Trump on stage Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, no one expected the billionaire to jump into the meme history books.
Musk strutted on stage with Trump while wearing black cowboy boots, a Texan-style belt buckle, an Occupy Mars t-shirt, a black blazer, and a black MAGA hat. He was there to put the juice after his endorsement of Trump. “As you can see I’m not just MAGA—I’m Dark MAGA,” Musk said as he fired up the crowd.
The Tesla CEO wandered around the stage behind Trump and tried to use the crowd as a professional figure while the former President gave a speech. Then, Musk jumped into the air, a calm smile on his face. AFP photographer Jim Watson snapped the photo just in time to capture the entire scene. The crowd faded, Musk seemed to float on air, and Trump half turned to his billionaire colleague with a scowl on his face.
It was the stuff meme dreams are made of.
#DorkMAGA #DorkElon pic.twitter.com/1m9AsWgnxb
– Bar 🇺🇦🇨🇦 (@PutlersPiss) October 6, 2024
Watson also filmed when Trump and Musk shook hands. It’s a strange photo that shows Trump standing over Musk, who is walking up with his eyes almost rolled back in the back of his head and a small smile on his face. He looks like Grima Wormtongue promising to submit to the king of lies he plans to betray.
The King: Heaven has forsaken me! The harvest is bad and the people are revolting all over the kingdom! I rely only on you, my faithful eunuch
great eunuch: pic.twitter.com/HJa4iZatLK
— yoshimi the good soldier (@nise_yoshimi) October 6, 2024
In X, the site Musk bought 44 billion and is now worth a little more, “DorkMaga” is trending as users have sent pictures that capture Musk in embarrassing photos and memes using Watson’s photos.
The darkest, and most viral, was the photo of Musk jumping from the Twin Towers on 9/11. “Imagine you buy a website so people think you’re good and then two years later people in Photoshop jump out of a window on 9/11,” Ela Bambust. said the post in the X above the image.
is this pic.twitter.com/HhXRyVXqqQ
– Clarke (@pleasuresystems) October 6, 2024