Elon Musk's most bizarre inauguration day moments

Watch a collection of Elon Musk's most bizarre moments from Donald Trump's presidential inauguration on January 20th.

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[Ezzy]

How can someone be this uncharismatic and painfully cringe??? I am not a liberal hating on Elon but this guy is the weirdest and most awkward person I’ve ever seen. It hurts to watch

[fionazerbst]

High as a kite, terminally awkward, the ultimate troll who is still looking for a father to affirm him instead of belittle him. Trump is his surrogate daddy. Sad.

[harikrishnan-mrpn]

Instead of planning to go Mars....
Donate your money to poor people for getting medicines, education, job.

[Geisteskrankful]

Rolling eyes, erratic behaviour and salutes. High as Hell.

[blackoutblue]

It’s like an alien trying to pretend to be human. He even looks like Spock from Star Trek. 😂😂

[Papan]

You can tell having extroverted energy is not this guy's personality but he is trying way too hard to pretend

[shamsularifin]

Deep down, bro aint happy, "his whole life's been insecure" - Sam Altman

[kelorean]

Now that's an unhinged billionaire

[S_yt]

I’m convinced that South Africa don’t want him back

[JanNovak-exei]

0:22 Holy smokes, how much ketamine did he take this time?

[JasonCole_TheVeil]

So cringe. I think he realized he did something stupid as he was doing that first salute, and then he tried to turn it into a "I'm just sending out my heart to all of you" with the 2nd and third awkward nazi thaloot. What a dolt.

[coconutislanddrones]

That rolling eyes moment looked like he was being updated.

[Grisb]

Victory for who? The ultra rich? Dude was staring at his phone like gold bars were dropping into his bank account at an exponential rate

[Hazardous_Mutation]

It’s not bizarre he knows exactly what he’s doing

[yannickbouret]

No words of Trump on that very embarrassing salute?

[HappyHeart]

Unbelievably out of touch with reality, but I guess hundreds of billions of dollars will do that to you. How out of touch must one be to not consciously realize how that "salute" would come off...unless of course that was his intention. It's sad when one can no longer tell the difference. What a mockery they have made of democracy.

[MelodyMLucianoNorris-qelc]

When I didn't think it could be any worse, we now have 2 buffoons in charge!! UGG!!

[incineradma]

Of all the things to hate about him, I love the fact that he’s unapologetically weird. We need so much more of that in this world.

[noyobu]

You don't understand. Look how happy he made all those people to die on Mars! Incredible!

[jhinabuser]

oh my god the way he pumps his fists at 0:56 just ridiculous. And then his yelling afterward just feels awkward hes such a dork.