Elon Musk Is The World’s First Nazi Trillionaire – W. Kamau Bell asks, "Who's With Me?"
When I look at the long list of everything that is wrong with everything and try to find the culprit, it’s usually American capitalism. For American capitalism to really be able to do what it do, it needs the performance-enhancing drugs of racism, sexism, misogynoir, ableism, ageism (against the old and the young), the entire list of phobias that involve any sexuality that isn’t hetero, and anti-religious fervor for any religion that doesn’t think Jesus is a white, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie who loves guns more than he loves poor people. American capitalism is a pyramid scheme built on a ponzi scheme that operates like an MLM run by your finest cult leaders. Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the sneaker guy wish they could have had the enduring success of Donald Trump.
Last Sunday, Donald Trump finally got his cage fights on the White House lawn. The cage fights were ostensibly celebrating America’s 250 birthday. But Donald Trump gave the game away when, instead of throwing America’s party on July 4th, the country’s actual birthday, Trump chose to have the party on June 14th, his own birthday. It’s the equivalent of your dad giving you a pair of size ten orthotics on your 8th birthday, and when you say that they don’t fit, and you don’t like them he responds, “Oh well, I guess I’ll keep them. Remember, son, it’s the thought that counts.”
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Also exactly what part of “celebrating America’s birthday was this?
That’s UFC heavyweight fighter Josh Hokit closing out his victory on the White House lawn by calling former First Lady Michelle Obama a man. As you can see, Joe Rogan, who was holding the microphone for Josh, was so offended by the comment that he was stunned into silence.
Or maybe Joe Rogan is just a complete shill for Donald Trump and Dana White and also has no respect for women who are smarter than him.
My friend Luke Thomas–who is a combat sports journalist, a regular old journalist, a former Marine, and a resident of Washington, DC–has been closely covering the UFC and Trump. In an appearance last week on PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT, Luke called the fights a wedding of sorts between the UFC and Trump. I think of this as the consummation of their marriage. There was for sure more grunting and groaning on the White House front lawn than there is on the average wedding night. Read Luke’s work for the best and most researched takes on this story.
But the thrust of the story is that the grift is grifting. As we have witnessed over and over, Donald Trump wants an extra scoop of grift on his grift. Last week it was announced that the Trump family would be selling gold coins to commemorate their nuptials. The coins are marked at the already too high price of $249 all the way up to the ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? price of $11,999. To make matters even Trumpier, the twelve thousand dollar gold coin (I’m rounding up.) only has one ounce of gold in it. Meaning that folks are paying twelve thousand dollars for around 4 grand in gold. If that sounds like a good idea to you, then I have a bunch of dollar bills that I’d like to sell you. I can get them to you for the low, low price of five bucks each. But hurry up and make your decision. I have other suckers…I mean customers who want in on this deal.
American capitalism allows this obvious and odious grift to happen because technically Trump isn’t selling the coins; Trump’s family is selling the coins. See, Trump’s personal finances are being held in a trust… by his kids. We are supposed to believe that the trust means that Trump has no influence(?) or even interest(?) in what those two dumb dumbs, Eric and Don Jr., are doing with his money. (Yeah, okay. Suuuuuure!) But as long as Eric and Don Jr. are doing the selling, American capitalism is happy to pretend that Trump’s hands are clean. No conflict of interest to see here as long as Trump has checked the “I promise not to grift.” box on the form. Like how when we check the box on any app we have downloaded we really, truly read and support all those “Terms & Conditions”.
Meanwhile, Trump’s old buddy Elon Musk has defeated the final boss of American capitalism: shame. Last week, SpaceX ( a company that Elon owns 42% of) had its initial public offering. Now, people can buy shares of SpaceX and grift themselves. The SpaceX IPO is Elon’s version of Trump’s UFC gold coins. While SpaceX’s grift is not as grift-y on the surface–apparently they are doing amazing things with reusable rockets–the grift is still strong with Elon. When you look into what SpaceX does, you find a bunch of The Wall Street Journal’s most popular American capitalism buzzwords from the last 30 years. Words like “space tourism,” “interplanetary travel,” “telecommunications,” “A.I.,” “satellite,” “Wi-Fi,” “tech,” and “national security.” If Elon had been a tycoon in the ‘80s, his company prospectus would have included words like “fax machine,” “inkjet printer,” and “Cabbage Patch Kid.” I could say that SpaceX is all over the place, but that doesn’t even start to cover how far they’re reaching. They claim they’re going to Mars. None of that matters though, because SpaceX’s IPO went so well that now, according to several media sources, Elon Musk is a trillionaire. Gun to my head, I could not tell you one thing that Elon has done for society that is worth even one plug nickel, let alone 20,000,000,000,000 plug nickels.
Years ago, I came across a concept called mission creep. Mission creep is the idea that when you start a big project (like a non-profit…or a war) and you aren’t careful, it’s easy to lose the focus on one mission and get distracted by other missions. This is especially true if those other missions look like they will yield more or quicker success than the mission you began with. Mission creep is what happens when you push into other areas and end up doing them all poorly. For more on this, see the United States of America’s War on Terror.
American capitalism is lousy with mission creep. Mission creep is why the ice cream machine at Mc Donald’s is always broken. My favorite recent example of mission creep happened at a company called Allbirds. They recently pivoted from being a sustainable footwear company into…*checks notes*… an A.I. data center. Before you laugh too much at Allbirds, it is important to note that after the announcement, Allbirds’ stock price went from $3 a share to $17 a share. The value of the company went up $127 million. All Allbirds had to do was to pivot from trying to save the environment with shoes to actively trying to destroy the environment with zeros and ones and unnecessary A.I. slop.
Elon has been mission creeping (along with just being a regular creep) ever since he entered the public sphere.
Elon, you and your team created EBay? Wow, can you make a ton of money off of electric cars. Please act like an expert while you do, even though you didn’t invent electric cars and had nothing to do with perfecting them? You know what? Can you sell flame throwers to people for no reason at all? Awesome! Now can you “fix Twitter”? And by “fix Twitter,” of course, I mean overpay for it, make it measurably worse, and allow it to feature sexually inappropriate images of children. Great! Umm… Have you thought about making the ugliest, most cheaply manufactured and completely useless truck ever? YOU HAVE? GIVE IT TO ME! Oops… I mean… SELL IT TO ME AT AN UNREASONABLY HIGH PRICE FOR WHAT I’M GETTING! Now, how about the federal government? Ever think about just poking your fingers into the middle of it and screwing around with? You know, like a toddler eating his first birthday cake? THANK YOU!
Elon Musk is now a trillionaire, but it is only because, like all of the wealthiest of America’s businessmen, he is more cult leader than money expert. Elon, like Trump, has convinced people that he is some sort of impressive figure with an astonishing intellect. In reality, he and Trump are such greedy, unscrupulous fans of white supremacy that capitalism just cleared a path for them. Here are some helpful facts about Elon, his company, and his “trillion dollars”:
Last year, SpaceX had a net loss of $4.9 billion. That’s not good, right?
Last year, SpaceX bought $131 million in cybertrucks from Elon’s other company, Tesla. I’m sure that totally makes good and sound business sense.
Experts say that SpaceX is significantly overvalued. Morningstar Equity says that the stock should be around $63 dollars a share. At the end of the first day of trading, SpaceX was trading at $161 dollars a share.
Experts say that people who invest in SpaceX need to be in it for the long haul, because it is gonna take a while for Elon to hit his goals for the company. Of course, there is a ton of interest from retail investors (i.e. schmucks like you and me who can’t afford a long haul). This is because Elon is a pop culture figure who some people still believe is real life Tony Stark as played by Robert Downey Jr. In other words, people are gonna lose money on this, even if SpaceX makes money eventually. You know, like, in one thousand years. *heavy sigh*
SpaceX’s $175 trillion valuation is overwhelmingly based on what Elon says the company is going to do, not what the company has done. Elon is promising satellite A.I. data centers, a base on the moon, and cities on other planets. I’m suuuuuure Elon can pull all that off. After all, when has Elon ever disappointed us before? Oh yeah, every single time.
Elon puts the “socialist” back in the “National Socialist Party” Our government has given Elon more than $500 million dollars in grants for SpaceX, alone. Apparently, that is just a fraction of what our government has given his other company, Tesla. Before you defend your Tesla, it is well known now that the Chinese electric cars kick Tesla’s boxy butt. All of this is to say that Elon’s money is our money. Elon believes what all super wealthy people believe, “Socialism for me and not for thee!”
A huge portion of Elon’s money is based on the flawed premise that we want/need A.I. to takeover every aspect of our lives. Companies are finding that A.I. is more expensive than just paying people to do the same work. It is also now well known that A.I. data centers are bad for the places they are put, due to their environmental impacts. Also many experts believe that the A.I. bubble is about to burst, like the 17th century tulip market.
Again, Elon is a Nazi. Nazi’s are bad. Don’t invest in Nazis.
Below is the SpaceX mission, cut and pasted directly from their prospectus that they used to launch their IPO.
“Our mission is to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars. To do this, we have formed the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth with unmatched capabilities to rapidly manufacture and launch space-based communications that connect the world, to harness the Sun to power a truth-seeking artificial intelligence that advances scientific discovery, and ultimately to build a base on the Moon and cities on other planets.”
That mission was creeping right from the beginning.
Meanwhile, this happened six years ago when Elon introduced his cybertruck.
As hard as it is to conceive of a trillion dollars, I found that this math helps. This trillion dollar math is going around the Internet.
If you earned one dollar per second, you would have $1,000 every 17 minutes. After 12 days you would get to your first $1 million. After 31.7 years you would have made $1 billion dollars. But even if you made 1 dollar every second you would not get to $1 trillion until 31,709.8 years had passed.
No wonder all those weird rich guys are also working on life extension.
And this website has a graphic that will blow your mind and possibly send you spiraling into a deep depression.
What Does One Billion Dollars Looks Like
Elon became a trillionaire in less than 55 years. Of course, most of Elon’s money is on paper. He can’t sell most of his stock for years, but he doesn’t care. He got the headlines that he wanted. Also, Elon knows that American capitalism has its marching orders to make him a trillionaire one way or another. All that wealth inequality Elon and creates will, of course, have deadly impacts. Elon’s accomplishment will lead to more people dying from a lack of healthcare, from a lack of affordable places to live, and from a lack of food.
There has reportedly been a race among the uber-billionaire class to see who would get to a trillion dollars first. Welp, Elon has won, but I am sure it won’t stop the others (Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, The Ellisons) from union-busting, industry consolidating, data-mining, and boot-licking their way to a trillion dollars too. But the good news now for Elon is now at least he can get back to his true passion project, being a Nazi.
Have you heard the expression “Every billionaire is a policy failure”? Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez famously said that “You can’t earn a billion dollars.” She explained that anyone who has a billion dollars is just taking advantage of American capitalism to acquire the money; they aren’t really earning it. Then what does someone having a trillion dollars mean about our society?
Have you ever seen that awful A&E show Hoarders? That show makes me I wish that America could go back to paper money. Then we could see that super wealthy people are hoarders. Imagine if Elon had to have one trillion dollars in actual paper money, instead of the zeros and ones in his bank accounts. We would all see yellowed and worn piles of currency all over his houses. They would look no different than the piles of newspapers and pizza boxes that the people on Hoarders were standing amidst. I’m sure there would be a desiccated cat skeleton among the piles of twenties. Those visuals would make clear that society needed to do an intervention to separate Elon and the other more than 3000 billionaires on the planet from their money. We would see these guys more like the disturbed cult leaders they are and less like the brilliant tycoons they want us to see them as.
Until then, congratulations, Elon! You are the world’s first trillionaire Nazi! YOU DID IT!
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Ordinarily, I would never post something like this, but it is simply too ironic to avoid. The post immediately before yours was a bus stall ad featuring Mr. Musk that stated: "If you have a trillion dollars in a world where children are starving, you’re not a visionary, you’re just a cunt." It was banned by Linkedin for "violating their community standards," as opposed to simply a picture of Musk.
This means that Elon is now a thousand times cuntier than a billionaire.
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