{"id":89543,"date":"2025-10-21T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/89543\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:40:07","slug":"elon-musk-trolls-sean-duffy-with-homophobic-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/89543\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Trolls Sean Duffy With Homophobic Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation and acting administrator of NASA, appeared on CNBC on Monday to say that SpaceX had fallen behind<\/a> in its effort to return Americans to the moon with the Artemis program. And SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was not happy about it.<\/p>\n

Duffy announced that while SpaceX had the contract to build the Human Landing System (HLS), NASA would be opening it up to other competitors like Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpaceX had the contract for Artemis 3,\u201d Duffy said<\/a>. \u201cThe problem is they\u2019re behind. They push their timelines out, and we\u2019re in a race against China. The president and I want to get to the Moon in this president\u2019s term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk replied to Duffy\u2019s video of the CNBC appearance Monday morning in a post on X with, \u201cBlue Origin has never delivered a payload to orbit, let alone the Moon.\u201d After many of Musk\u2019s followers pointed out that this wasn\u2019t true (Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket did deliver a test payload to space), the billionaire followed up with another tweet about a half hour later: \u201c(Useful payload).\u201c<\/p>\n

But Musk was clearly stewing all day about Duffy\u2019s video, returning to the Transportation Secretary\u2019s tweet late into the night with \u201cAlso, one question,\u201d and a meme GIF that reads \u201cwhy are you gae.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, one question pic.twitter.com\/DhpuWoOTPt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

The meme originates from a 2012 segment on the Ugandan TV show called Morning Breeze<\/a> with Simon Kaggwa Njala and LGBTQ activist Pepe Julian Onziema. To open the show, Njala addressed Onziema by stating, \u201cThank you for coming in, good morning. Why are you gay?\u201d Onziema, a trans man in a relationship with a woman, responded, \u201cWho says I\u2019m gay?\u201d Njala then went on to insist, \u201cYou are gay.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video evolved into a meme online in the 2010s, with some people intentionally misspelling gay as \u201cgae.\u201d And Musk, who\u2019s revealed himself in recent years to be bigoted<\/a> against the LGBT community, was clearly trying to get a rise out of Duffy with some old-school homophobia.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s fans subsequently shared memes on Tuesday about his tweet calling Duffy \u201cgae,\u201d and Musk responded with a crying-laughing emoji.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Musk posted a poll asking<\/a> \u201cShould someone whose biggest claim to fame is climbing trees be running America\u2019s space program?\u201d and also retweeted a video from an account called PatriotTakes<\/a> that shows Duffy during his days in the 1990s as a reality TV star. Duffy is a former world champion lumberjack and climbed trees in competition.<\/p>\n

Musk boosted a tweet from Grok about whether chimps, which are good at climbing trees, would be good for leading NASA.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd25\ud83e\udd23 https:\/\/t.co\/1oqVv85MGX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

In another tweet, Musk referred to Duffy as \u201cSean Dummy<\/a>\u201d and also tweeted<\/a>, \u201cThe person responsible for America\u2019s space program can\u2019t have a 2 digit IQ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk has many reasons to hate Duffy, it seems. Jared Isaacman, a billionaire buddy of Musk, was initially nominated by President Trump to lead NASA earlier this year, but his nomination was pulled after someone close to Trump pointed out Isaacman had previously donated money to Democratic candidates. And there\u2019s clearly a power struggle still going on, even after Musk left his role with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in May.<\/p>\n

Musk, who started the second Trump era by giving two Nazi-style salutes<\/a>, had a rather messy departure from his official government role, but he still relies heavily on government contracts and can use his money, power and prestige to influence decisions behind the scenes. The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported Monday that Isaacman is still interested in the top job at NASA, but Duffy may have different plans entirely for the agency as he leads in an \u201cacting\u201d capacity.<\/p>\n

According to the Journal, Duffy told people over the summer that he wanted to bring NASA under the Department of Transportation\u2019s purview. An unnamed spokesperson for NASA told the Journal that \u201cNASA might benefit from being part of the Cabinet,\u201d but denied that Duffy wanted to \u201ckeep the job himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Historically, Americans don\u2019t get a front row seat to the power struggles of government, played out in front of the entire world on social media. But that\u2019s precisely what\u2019s happening when Musk tweets aggressively at Duffy on the platform he owns. And to make it even more odd, Musk does it with all the finesse of a 12-year-old boy. A particularly immature and homophobic 12-year-old boy at that.<\/p>\n