Special Government Employee Elon Musk delivered a hefty amount of shade towards Elissa Slotkin (MI) after the Democrat senator called him out during her response to President Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday.
Fox News senior national correspondent Aishah Hasnie briefly questioned Musk about Slotkin's remarks as he walked with Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI).
"What do you want to say to Elissa Slotkin?" Hasnie wondered. "She called you out by name."
You could see the wheels churning away inside Musk's head. This is, after all, the same man who recently said his cellphone number was "something 8008."
“Uh ... I don’t know who she is,” Musk replied.
The delivery prompted Slotkin's fellow Michigander, Rep. McClain, to burst out laughing.
VIDEO: @elonmusk burns Sen Elissa SLOTKIN when asked to respond to her calling him out during her Dem Rebuttal to President Trump’s joint address, Tuesday.
— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) March 6, 2025
“I don’t know who she is.”
Followed by Rep Lisa MCCLAIN erupting in laughter. pic.twitter.com/mlFOLkVFWw
Brutal. It's just about right after a comment like that when the "Finish Her!" message shows up on the screen in Mortal Kombat.
Musk occasionally gets criticism for his sophomoric behavior (see the aforementioned "boobs" joke), but honestly, this is the best approach in dealing with Democrats at this point. Let them scream and stew about your work at DOGE while you're just out here living the best life.
America gets to see the left consistently raging, as they did at Trump's speech, while the administration is perpetually enjoying their work as they set about course-correcting the country. It's good optics.
While Slotkin herself wasn't part of the rage cabal, her rebuttal speech attempted to deliver some counterpoints to the President, and Musk, as usual, was a target of the Democrat's ire.
Elissa Slotkin Gives Rebuttal to Trump's Joint Address Cementing Her Role As a Political Placeholder
Slotkin warned all three viewers of her speech that Trump would increase the national debt and, "if he's not careful ... could walk us right into a recession."
This is rich, considering the previous administration did just that but tried to cover it up by magically redefining the word "recession."
Slotkin then went after Musk and insisted he and the president would come after Americans' retirement plans.
"In order to pay for his plan, he could very well come after your retirement – the Social Security, Medicare, and VA benefits you worked your whole life to earn," she said. "The president claims he won't, but Elon Musk just called Social Security 'the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.'"
Slotkin used that as a jumping-off point to attack Musk and "his gang of 20-year-olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information, and your bank accounts."
Odd, isn't it, how Democrats keep disparaging Musk's 20-year-old tech nerds but spent years leading up to the presidential election suggesting the voting age should be lowered to allow teenagers a chance to decide elections?
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) did the Democrat response to President Trump’s speech.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 5, 2025
Here she asked, regarding Elon Musk, “Is there anyone in America who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20-year-olds, using there own servers to poke through your tax returns, your health… pic.twitter.com/dSMv1hfEEO
"We need more efficient government. You want to cut waste, I'll help you do it," Slotkin lamented in her anti-Musk screed. "But change doesn't need to be chaotic or make us less safe."
Change isn't truly change unless it is chaotic.
Elon Musk and DOGE are bringing much-needed accountability to our out-of-control bureaucracy as they take a chainsaw to rampant waste, fraud, and abuse.
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