CNN’s Anderson Cooper Drops Wild Intro On Elon Musk’s Testicularly-Named Tech Bro
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper delivered a cheeky introduction to his show with a reference to an Elon Musk DOGE operative with the genitalia-themed online moniker Big Balls.
A 19-year-old operative for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) named Edward Coristine is drawing attention since Wired magazine reported on him and his online pseudonym “Big Balls.”
The teenager was the subject of a straight-faced segment on OutFront about the “red flags” Wired uncovered.
On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Cooper went in the other direction, opening his show by telling viewers, “We begin tonight with Musk and Big Balls!”:
ANDERSON COOPER: Good evening. Thanks for joining us.
We begin tonight with Musk and Big Balls! That’s the online name according to “Wired” Magazine, of a teen tech-whiz who, along with others, are helping the world’s richest man do whatever it is he’s doing dismantling parts of the federal government.
Today, a Massachusetts District Court judge named George O’Toole extended tonight’s midnight deadline for federal employees to accept a deferred resignation offer, which purports to pay them through September if they quit now.
An administration official telling us about 50,000 people have taken advantage so far, about 2.5 percent of the federal workforce.
Now, the judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday before deciding whether this program should be blocked. If the brain child as you know, of Elon Musk, who has been seemingly popping up everywhere with the president lately, and his Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, which, as you may also know, is not an officially constituted federal department, though it is now involved in gutting them.
It’s still an open question, as today’s court ruling shows, whether Musk or Big Balls and the others on his secretive team, or even the president has the authority to do it, but even from the start, the intention was there.
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HOWARD LUTNICK, US COMMERCE SECRETARY NOMINEE: We set up DOGE.
ELON MUSK, CO-DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY: Yes.
LUTNICK: How much do you think we can rip out of this wasted $6.5 trillion Harris-Biden budget?
MUSK: Well, I think we can do at least $2 trillion.
LUTNICK: Yes.
MUSK: Yes.
LUTNICK: Two trillion.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Well, that’s the third of the federal budget, of which there are actually very few opportunities to cut once you factor in defense, Medicare, Social Security, and interest on the national debt.
What Musk and DOGE, with the president say so appear to be focusing on instead, is making wholesale government staffing cuts, which also may not pass legal muster because most federal employees have civil service protection against being fired without cause and due process, or, in the case of the US Agency for International Development – USAID, simply eliminating the entire department, which, again, the president is totally okay with.
Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.
