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A high-profile private dinner held by Donald Trump for Jeff Bezos took an unexpected turn when Elon Musk made an uninvited appearance, sparking a flood of jokes and memes online.
Musk reportedly crashed the meeting at Mar-a-Lago between the President-elect and Amazon CEO on Wednesday. According to The New York Times, the X CEO “was not initially expected to be part of the dinner but joined as it was underway.”
Newsweek has contacted Musk and Trump’s transition team for comment via email for confirmation.
Musk’s appearance at the dinner sparked a barrage of jokes and memes online, with late night hosts and social media users mocking him as “deranged” and “creepy.” Seth Meyers said of Trump: “You got ‘Cable Guy’ed by Elon Musk.”
Meyers’ joke is a reference to 1996 movie The Cable Guywhich, according to IMDb, is a dark comedy about “a lonely and socially awkward cable TV installer, played by Jim Carrey, who becomes …