Planes dumping illegal alien criminals back into their home countries faster than a Hollywood jet on its way to Epstein island. A government oversight group barreling through federal agencies with a hacksaw, cutting out waste and fraud. A billionaire getting CNN to make a frat boy-level reference to genitalia live on-air.
What a time to be alive.
As if things could get any more hilariously bizarre than they were about five minutes ago, Trump-appointed Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk actually got CNN’s Dana Bash to call him “Harry Balls” during an actual news segment Tuesday, erupting in all kinds of hilarity over on social media.
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Here’s the actual, honest-to-God clip, no edit:
CNN in all seriousness on live TV:
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) February 11, 2025
"Elon Musk who apparently has adopted the alias... Harry Bolz." pic.twitter.com/suA5Q76AEe
“Now, the disrupter-in-chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted the alias - at least he changed his social media handle - to ‘Harry Bolz,’ tweeted this morning, ‘Democracy in America this morning is being by judicial coup. An activist judge is not a real judge,’” Bash said during her segment, never appearing to realize exactly what she’d just said out loud.
Which is true - just don’t count on CNN to understand that, considering they also aren’t smart enough to realize that changing your handle on Twitter doesn’t make it your real name.
Musk recently changed his handle over on X to “Harry Bōlz,” a joking nod to a 19-year-old DOGE member named Edward Coristine - known online as “Big Balls” - who sparked controversy last week as one of several young adults granted access to federal computer systems as part of Musk’s government oversight taskforce. The dude's nickname immediately generated all kinds of memes and jokes on social media, prompting conservative media personalities and even Musk himself to get in on the fun.
Looks like CNN's lost their sense of humor, likely wherever they misplaced their journalistic ethics.
Which, unfortunately, means they probably won't find it anytime soon.