Federal employees of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) were welcomed this morning by TVs from the agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC, playing what seems to be a video generated by the AI of President Donald Trump The feet of Elon Musk, accompanied by the words: “Long live the real king”.
A person from Hud’s headquarters Monday morning shared a video with Wired showing the scene playing on a loop on a television screen inside the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building. The source, which has obtained anonymity on fears of the repercussions, says that building workers had to manually deactivate each television to stop the video.
We do not currently know who was behind the farce. Similar videos generated by AI and fixed images of Trump Kissing Musk’s feet have been shared on social media platforms since last year.
“Another waste of dollars and taxpayers’ resources,” Kasey Lovett, a spokesperson for Hud, told Wired. “Appropriate measures will be taken for all those involved.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The incident came a few days after disclosed documents have shown that the Elon Musk planned Dogee of Government Department of Government (DOGE) provided for eradicate 4,000 employees at the agencyWho is managing an American housing crisis.
NPR reported This weekend, the HUD community planning and development office should lose 84% of its staff according to disclosed documents.
“We have decided internally to start informing our beneficiaries – each mayor, county chief, governor, CEO for non -profit and beneficiary of these functions of the Congress – that they should anticipate an important unpredictable loss or deadline in financing “, He told Wired a current HUD employee.
During the weekend, HUD employees, like many other federal workers, received an email from the staff management office requiring an answer with “about. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week.
Leadership in many agencies, as well as the leaders of the Federal Workers’ Syndicate, told their members not to respond to emails, while HUD management told employees to wait until at least noon Monday before To take measures, said a HUD source in Wired.
