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Strange Video Of Elon Musk Toying With Cutlery At A Trump Dinner Has Gone Viral, Leaving People In Awe

Published on March 25, 2025

During a dinner with Donald Trump, a video of Elon Musk getting “mesmerized” while fiddling with his silverware has gone viral.

Donald Trump’s head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly toying with his silverware at dinner when he’s not busy being accused of giving a “Nazi salute” at a rally or receiving nasty remarks from his divorced daughter.

The video, which has gone viral on social media, shows Musk ‘effortlessly balanc[ing] a fork and spoon on one finger while dining with Trump’ as his attempts to reduce government spending have come under harsh scrutiny.

In the video, the Tesla CEO is seen playing with some silverware while seated at a dinner table with Shivon Zilis, the director of Neuralink, with whom Musk has four children.

After that, it pans to see Musk occupied with his silverware as Trump, seated on his right, is talking to someone else.

Musk, however, has subsequently corrected early accounts on the platform, writing: “A fork and two spoons balanced on the tip of my finger.”

According to Times Now News, Trump reportedly hosted the dinner on March 15 at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. According to reports, each seat had to pay $1 million for the dinner.

And people’s opinions have been coming fairly quickly.

“Peak genius and dinner entertainment,” someone wrote on Twitter.

Someone more commented, “I bet this hits so hard if you’re seven.”

Additionally, the discussion has spread to Reddit.

“This photo is cropped but in other versions the president is sitting in the chair next to him talking to someone. I find that makes Elon playing with silverware even stranger…” one user wrote.

“He’s hoping someone will pay attention to him,” a second person remarked.Hello! It looks really good! You’re so awesome, man! It’s incredibly horribly obvious.

Another echoed: “The video is so sad. He’s just sitting there doing a childhood dinner trick while waiting for someone to notice how ‘cool’ it was. Next he’s gonna do the hang the spoon off your nose trick lol. This is the s**t I did when my parents dragged me to dinner parties as a kid.”

And a third resolved: “People on Twitter are legitimately like ‘THIS IS HOW SOMEONE WAY SMARTER THAN YOU BRAINSTORMS A DESIGN FOR A SATELLITE'”

“Like bigger f**king simps could not possibly exist in the known universe.”