Afrigather Billionaire Elon Musk joined GOP nominee Donald Trump on Saturday at his second rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and promptly made reference to an alt-right conspiracy motion known as “Darkish MAGA.”
“As you may see, I’m not simply MAGA, I’m darkish MAGA,” stated the Tesla CEO, who donned a blacked out Make America Nice Once more Hat.
Darkish MAGA started popping up on X as a meme someplace round 2022, reported Newsweek. The motion requires the return of Trump to the White Home in any respect value, asserting that Trump needs to be authoritarian and ruthless in his pursuit of energy. Supporters of the motion typically share black and blue coloured photos of Trump’s typical MAGA slogans and merch as a nod to its existence, together with dystopian photos of America that seem like impressed by the Terminator film franchise.
To date, Trump has not acknowledged or supported the message behind the meme.
After Musk made the remark, #DarkMAGA began trending on X with tens of 1000’s of posts beneath the hashtag. Nonetheless, many X commentators appeared to leap on the trending subject as alternative to skewer Musk’s full-on embrace of MAGA—which included awkward leaping and dancing as he got here on stage.
The Tesla CEO may very well be seen in mid-air as Trump seemed on with a bewildered expression.
“Darkish MAGA… Extra like #DorkMAGA,” wrote one social media commentator on X.
One other commentator added, “Elon’s girlfriend is ‘Darkish MAGA’ too. She goes to completely different college.”
One other commentator identified that Musk’s “Darkish MAGA” second appeared to be lifted from President Joe Biden’s “Darkish Brandon” meme marketing campaign.
“Elon’s huge stroke of genius (Darkish Maga) is simply one other meme he stole,” wrote X consumer @ryanharpergray. “This time from the Biden social media workforce. Dudes actually essentially the most unoriginal individual alive.”
Biden’s camp embraced “Darkish Brandon” as an “alter ego” round 2022 after “Let’s go, Brandon” grew to become a means for conservatives to insult the sitting president when the mantra was infamously misheard at a NASCAR race.
Earlier than leaving the stage, Musk urged the gang to “drag” individuals to vote. As a result of in the event that they don’t, “This would be the final election. That’s my prediction,” he stated.
