Elon Musk just flipped the internet upside down, swinging the banhammer hard after viral videos of him getting mercilessly booed at a Trump rally leaked online, sparking a mass purge on X that’s left users stunned and the platform in pandemonium. The 53-year-old Tesla titan, now a White House insider via his DOGE role, unleashed the crackdown at 7 p.m. PST today, vowing to “erase the haters” who dared share the humiliating clips—and the backlash is seismic.
“Post a boo video, you’re gone—permanently!” Musk raged in an X Spaces rant, his voice tight with fury. “I’m building the future—SpaceX, AI, freedom—and these losers boo me? No more. X is my house, my rules—banned, all of them!” Within hours, thousands of accounts were zapped, from blue-check influencers to randos, as clips of Musk drowned in jeers at a Mar-a-Lago rally went viral.
The footage, shot Friday afternoon, showed Musk stepping onstage with Trump to hype “government efficiency,” only to face a wall of boos from MAGA diehards chanting, “Sellout!” and “Tesla sucks!” His grin faltered, then froze—30 seconds of raw humiliation now looping endlessly online. “It was brutal—he looked like a deer in headlights,” an attendee told us. “Trump tried laughing it off, but Elon bolted.”
X exploded as bans rolled out. “Elon’s banning EVERYONE over boo vids—thin-skinned much?” one user posted, before vanishing mid-thread. “He’s nuking accounts like it’s Thanos—wild!” another wrote, with screenshots of “Account Suspended” flooding feeds. #ElonBooBan trended, with memes of Musk as a crying dictator racking up millions of likes—until those posters got axed too.
Musk doubled down at 7:45 p.m., tweeting: “Booers are bots or jealous failures—X is for winners! Bans stay!” Sources say he’s “obsessed,” holed up in Austin,亲自 overseeing the purge via Starlink. “He’s screaming at engineers—‘Find every clip, kill it!’” an X staffer leaked. “It’s personal now.”
The crowd’s ire? Some tie it to Tesla layoffs, others to Musk’s Trump bromance—X posts pre-ban raged, “He’s a DC lapdog now!” Free-speech fans, once Musk’s cheerleaders, turned fast: “Banning for boos? Hypocrite!” one wrote, gone by 8 p.m. Allies like Don Jr. backed him—“Elon’s a genius, haters suck!”—but the pile-on grew.
By 8:10 p.m., X lost 50,000 users, per trackers, with #DeleteX spiking. “He’s torching his own platform—ironic!” a tech analyst said. Rivals like Bluesky crowed, “No boo bans here!” as exiles fled. Musk’s mom, Maye, tweeted, “Elon, stop this,” at 7:50 p.m.—still up, for now.
With bans surging—“Everyone” might not be hyperbole—and X a warzone, Musk’s boo meltdown’s a self-inflicted wound. “He’s the king of overreacting,” an ex-Twitter exec quipped. Trump’s silent, but the internet’s not—Elon’s banned the boos, but the roar’s deafening.