The world’s first trillionaire is a murderer

SpaceX’s IPO will likely lead to Elon Musk The richest person to ever walk this planet. And while the mountain of his outrageous personal behavior could fill many books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. Worse still – happily.

This is it Not a serious personBut his abuse of the world is very dangerous. In the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term, Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency decimated the U.S. Agency for International Development, whose mission had been a boon to public health around the world. Musk described the life-saving agency as a “criminal organization” and happily celebrated by spending the weekend “feeding USAID into wood chippers.” It was a good reference if you wanted everyone to think you were the killer Fargo. Mission accomplished, Elon.

In the months since, public health models have been pointing toward Musk He was He fought on a much larger scale than any Coen brothers villain. track The study, co-created by Professor Brooke Nichols of Boston University, projected that more than 780,000 people — most of them children, many infants — would die from cuts to the US Agency for International Development approved by the Trump administration in early 2025, caused by malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and more. These deaths were widely predicted from the beginning, and are a direct, known, and undeniable result of DOGE’s actions. We don’t know the exact number of deaths, however numerous Experts Those working to determine the scale of the tragedy generally agree that it is in the hundreds of thousands. Global Researchers, published in natureCuts in US international development aid are expected to result in 163,500 child deaths annually. Another post in The scalpel He says there could be millions more to come. Musk showed no sign of interest.

During a televised Cabinet meeting at the White House in 2025, Musk, wearing a slay MAGA hat signed by his boss, joked about “accidentally” canceling an Ebola prevention. He said it was a mistake and would be fixed. USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, To testify before Congresshe said, reform never came. Just over a year after Musk’s comments, Africa is facing what could happen The worst Ebola outbreak ever. USAID’s DOGE cleaver goes far beyond the recent Ebola crisis. According to Einrich, the rate of HIV infection among newborns was close to zero. Until musk enters.

You might think that Musk’s actions to eliminate effective global health programs are inconsistent with his actions The quest is downright creepy To raise birth rates, but not when you consider that the man is also very racist. The list is too long to record, but here are some relevant highlights: He raised claims of “white genocide” in South Africa, spending most of January. Post other talking points about white supremacyAnd the last one Race riots have been encouraged In the UK, all to stir up anti-immigrant sentiment. Is there any doubt as to why this man would take such pleasure in destroying one of the most successful global health initiatives in history, which has saved millions of black lives?

The Trump administration is full of extremists, but even some of those people looked at Musk and said, “Now this The man is truly a savage.” Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wales, He said Vanity gallery That Musk was “a complete solo act.” She says he “may have known” that what he was doing “would be terrifying to others,” but he did it anyway. (Unfortunately, Wiles also said she was only “initially horrified” by his behavior, which pretty much sums up the Republican reaction to the party’s disarray.)

“There are always problems on Earth. There are always things that we want to be better, that we want to solve here on Earth, that we have to solve. But there also have to be things that get you excited about the future,” Musk said while addressing SpaceX employees on IPO day. Sounds good, until you consider that one of the recent projects Musk has been interested in is killing immunization efforts that save children’s lives from deadly diseases. In fact, “There are always problems on Earth” is the thing you say when you don’t care much about those problems.

Guess what, Elon? There are a lot of things about the future that people get excited about when they wake up in the morning. I fired a bunch of them for no good reason, a lot of bad ones. The stories of the fired USAID workers are heartbreaking, as are many similar stories from many people in the United States and abroad who have dedicated their lives to missions ranging from protecting the dignity and health of human beings to preserving our natural lands. I have met many of these people in person, and unlike the man who fired them, they did not enter public service for private gain.

Musk has hijacked the government to destroy these missions and dehumanize these people in service of the whole lie that this will make the government more efficient. Of course, there is a big difference between “efficiency” and inefficiency. The agency is not more efficient if it does not exist; He was simply killed. A fire department without firefighters looks good on the balance sheet if you can ignore that the city is on fire.

The intentional destruction of the ability to save lives and reduce suffering is psychopathic behavior, the kind that would prevent any rational, decent person from granting power to anyone capable of it. But here we are. And while there has always been a class of threats to the wealthy, including terrible racists in power who don’t care about suffering, we seem to be crossing the Rubicon with Musk. Few people in history, if ever, have accumulated the same combination of wealth, media power, and government influence.

After his reign of terror in DOGE It ended in a fiascoMusk has walked away from government with the same kind of reckless indifference that has characterized his tenure. The math is fuzzy, but it looks like DOGE The government barely saved any money. until says the libertarian Cato Institute DOGE did not cut spending, only cut federal hiring, by 9 percent in about 10 months. But when you look beyond the expenses and consider the fact that the operation has plundered a vast store of expertise and capabilities from our community, it’s easy to see how Musk’s project is one of the most expensive ever.

Musk has not completely moved on from government; He still needs those federal SpaceX contracts, now more than ever. He may be wearing a different hat now, but nothing else has changed. X remains a hose of misery with Musk at the helm, and his AI project is a nightmare of disinformation and AI. Images of child sexual abuse. Not only should this man be denied access to all the money in the world; He probably shouldn’t even be allowed within 500 feet of a school.

Elon Musk has long proven that it is The wrong man to save the world. It’s even worse now. The world needs to be saved from it.