Donald Trump and Elon Musk have grown close over the past year. The latter supported the former in his bid for re-election, both financially and via his social media platform, X, while the former repaid the latter for his services by appointing him as head of the newly-formed (and highly questionable) Department of Government Efficiency.
Theirs is a tale of fortitude, of sacrifice, of compassion and courage and… love?
Diners in the cafeteria of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) building might have been forgiven for thinking so when they were treated to an impromptu video broadcasting the moment Donald Trump kissed Elon Musk’s feet.
When did this moment happen? I hear you ask. How did I miss that? Well, the truth is you didn’t; it never happened.
The aforementioned video – though undeniably shocking – is AI generated, but that hasn’t stopped it gaining viral attention online after Vox journalist Rachel Cohen shared a clip of the incident to X.
A caption overlaid on the pair reads: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”
As stated, the video was apparently left to play in the HUD cafeteria, giving any number of government employees the chance to see their Commander in Chief in a somewhat compromising position with the man many have criticized for boisterously forcing his way – unelected, we may add – into Trump’s administration.
At the time of writing, the person responsible for uploading the AI video isn’t known, but you can be sure there’ll be people vying to get to the bottom of it.
“This is so funny but disgusting as well,” one X user tweeted.
Another wrote: “Bro has two left feet.”
this video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet is playing in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development cafeteria this morning
(per source @HUDgov) pic.twitter.com/hrojPdLDHQ
— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) February 24, 2025
“That’s not kissing, that’s something else and I don’t want it o be defined,” wrote a third.
A fourth questioned: “Funny, but isn’t it more like the other way around?”
Democrats from the US House Committee on Financial Services resolved: “Not all heroes wear capes.”
In real life, Trump and Musk have wasted no time in getting to work slimming down the government to tackle what they claim is gross overspending. The recent measures implemented by the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency have caused widespread controversy after cracking down on the federal workforce.
Even so, if President Trump gets his way, this may only be just the beginning, with the POTUS having instructed Musk to “get more aggressive” with his tactics.
What do you make of Trump and Musk? Let us know in the comments.