Chris Hayes Savages ‘Ultimate Terrible Boss’ Elon Musk: ‘A Supercharged Version of Lumbergh’

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes likened Elon Musk to Bill Lumbergh, the chief antagonist of Mike Judge’s 1999 dark comedy classic Office Space, on his show Tuesday evening.

Lumbergh, the fictional manager with few if any redeeming qualities, exemplifies the man pulling the strings of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to Hayes.

On Tuesday’s All In, the host discussed a directive Musk issued last week to two million federal employees demanding they justify their jobs via email. Musk’s authority to issue such a directive was quickly challenged, and Trump did not have a clear answer for the controversy when pressed about it.

Hayes said Musk wants to be the “boss” of everyone on the federal payroll.

“I think it’s safe to say it has been a humiliating debacle and a total disaster for Musk,” Hayes said. “You had numerous agency and department heads across the government telling their employees to ignore Musk’s request.”

Hayes noted Musk’s email was met with responses that ranged from sarcastic to vulgar, according to one report:

In the word of one Trump official, [pranksters sent] very rude emails listing fake vulgar accomplishments, even sending links to graphic images of sex and scatological content. Strongly disapprove of anyone doing that. All of this just seems to further solidify Musk’s public image as a kind of cultural cliche of like the absolute, ultimate terrible boss – just the worst boss. Everyone’s had a bad boss in their life. This guy is the worst of them. A supercharged version of Lumbergh or the Bobs from Office Space.

Saturday, Musk posted op X, “Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

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