{"id":22381,"date":"2025-02-22T01:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22381"},"modified":"2025-02-22T01:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:44:40","slug":"elon-musk-confirms-the-real-reason-he-wore-sunglasses-throughout-the-entire-cpac-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22381","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk confirms the real reason he wore sunglasses throughout the entire CPAC conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Elon Musk is never far from the news these days, but alongside allegations he&#8217;s secretly fathered a 13th child and his\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/social-media\/twitter\/grimes-elon-musk-childs-medical-crisis-234995-20250221\">ex making public pleas to him on X<\/a>, these are just a few of the reasons he continues to grab headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">When he&#8217;s not trying to\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/science\/space\/elon-musk-claim-nasa-astronauts-stuck-in-space-political-894345-20250219\">rescue astronauts from the International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0or batting off accusations from\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/news\/tech-news\/errol-musk-exposes-elons-bad-parenting-and-claims-hell-shoot-him-212015-20250219\">his own father that he&#8217;s a bad dad<\/a>,<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/elon-musk\">\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0is taking his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency very seriously. Although it&#8217;s not an official position within the White House, Musk has certain powers as a &#8220;special government employee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The head of the DOGE has vowed to try and slash $2 trillion from government spending, but as well as facing some severe backlash from the public, he&#8217;s also been\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/news\/judges-orders-musk-destroy-financial-data-americans-261892-20250212\">ordered to destroy<\/a>\u00a0financial information on millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\">\n<div class=\"resizable-image_wrapper__LRQlr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" 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stole the show at CPAC (Andrew Harnik \/ Staff \/ Getty)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Musk recently sent shockwaves around the world by\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/social-media\/twitter\/elon-musk-issues-medicare-statement-hours-after-grimes-makes-plea-799931-20250221\">putting Medicare in his crosshairs<\/a>\u00a0at the Conservative Political Action Conference, but this was far from the conference&#8217;s wildest moment involving the world&#8217;s richest man. During one bizarre interaction, Argentinian President and Trump ally Javier Milei presented Musk with a gilded chainsaw. While taking to the stage with Newsmax host Rob Schmitt on the second day of CPAC, Milei gave Musk the chainsaw as a metaphor for the\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/news\/tech-news\/elon-musks-plans-cut-2-trillion-us-government-spending-415767-20241114\">cuts he&#8217;s making to the federal government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">When we thought the Tesla CEO being handed a sci-fi picture of himself was the strangest moment, Musk was keen to top it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Others were confused by Musk&#8217;s general appearance and why he spent the entire right-wing conference wearing a pair of oversized sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Wearing sunglasses and a gold chain, Musk also sported a top that read, \u201cI\u2019m not procrastinating I\u2019m doing side quests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Musk became a series of soundbites, saying, &#8220;I am become meme,&#8221; at one point and then adding, &#8220;My mind is a storm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qst\">Yup \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fJakxWhDZH\">https:\/\/t.co\/fJakxWhDZH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1892724027187138901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Critics said he could barely string a sentence together, and while\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/social-media\/twitter\/grimes-delete-elon-musk-posts-shadowban-015081-20250221\">Grimes was trending at the time<\/a>, the second trending topic was &#8216;ketamine&#8217; as X was flooded with claims that the billionaire had taken an illicit substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">At least we&#8217;ve gotten to the bottom of why he was wearing sunglasses, with Musk confirming it was related to a promise in 2024 that he made if Donald Trump was elected President again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In another memeworthy rant, Musk doubled down on Trump&#8217;s claims that the Fort Knox gold depository isn&#8217;t real. The POTUS said he wanted to visit the military base to make sure the gold is there,&#8221; while Musk expanded at CPAC by saying: &#8220;We just wanna see it and make sure somebody didn\u2019t spray paint lead or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Musk was followed on the stage by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, who has called Musk a &#8216;parasitic illegal immigrant&#8217; that \u201cwants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country\u2019s history, values or traditions.&#8221; Although some were hoping for a\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/news\/tech-news\/jake-paul-vs-mike-tyson-rematch-could-be-worth-recordbreaking-sum-281148-20241204\">Mike Tyson and Logan Paul-inspired clash<\/a>\u00a0between the pair, they didn&#8217;t share the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Despite his critics, Musk got some of the biggest cheers of the conference and earned many a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Elon Musk is never far from the news these days, but alongside allegations he&#8217;s secretly fathered a 13th child and his\u00a0ex making public pleas to him on X, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22383,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions\/22383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}