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Employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development cafeteria got the shock of their lives on Monday, Feb. 24, when an obviously manipulated video of President Donald Trump played on the television screens.
The video has a caption “Long Live the Real King” in front of AI-generated footage of President Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet.
The Footage was captured on the cafeteria screens and shared by a HUD source with Vox reporter Rachel Cohen who posted it on social media.
It is yet to be determined how the footage got on cafeteria television screens, but a spokesperson for HUD promised to hold someone within the agency accountable.
HUD spokesperson Kasey Lovett told DailyMail.com: “Another waste of taxpayer dollars and resources. Appropriate action will be taken for all involved.”
There has been the rumour even before Trump was sworn in that Elon Musk is the real president.
Trump moved to dispel the rumour by taking to social media to assert that he was fully in charge, adding that even though Musk was smart, but he could never be the president of America because he was not born there.
The tech billionaire is a special adviser to Trump and is spearheading his DOGE program to make government more efficient.
Government workers are not pleased with Musk’s efforts to reduce employees, especially after he asked them to inform him of what they had accomplished in the past week.
An email with the subject line “What did you do last week?” was sent to federal employees and it significantly annoyed them after it demanded they reply with “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager.”
Musk set end of Monday, February 24 as the deadline for a response, threatening that failure to comply with the email’s instructions would be “taken as a resignation” from the employee in question.
Musk has been accused of acting like an unelected dictator by the workers who have called on Trump to sack him.
This is however not likely to happen as President Trump has expressed full support for his efforts to root out waste, fraud and abuse.
Responding to the issues in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said he thought the email sent out to federal workers was “great”.
