The feds have ID’d the cyberpunk who broadcast an AI-powered video of President Trump kissing the feet of Elon Musk on public TVs at HUD on Monday and are threatening to take legal action against them.
Officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the individual has been identified, although they didn’t name them or reveal how the hacker managed to infiltrate the government television system in the cafeteria at the agency’s headquarters.
“Yesterday, an individual was escorted off the property,” a HUD rep told The Post on Tuesday. “Legal ramifications are being explored. Additionally, termination or suspension of certain services are being explored as it relates to the department.”
Workers at HUD were caught off guard when the disturbing rogue video was broadcast at department headquarters with the message: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”
HUD officials later regained control of the television system and began using it to tout Trump’s achievements thus far in his second term.
Footage of the repulsive video was first shared on social media by Vox reporter Rachel Cohen, who acquired it from a source.
Musk, the billionaire Tesla and Space X tech titan, has leveraged his position as an adviser to Trump to pursue cuts across the government through his Department of Government Efficiency team. This has enraged some government workers and sparked protests.
HUD has been a top target for DOGE, which claimed earlier this month to have recovered $1.9 billion from the department, which it alleged was “misplaced during the Biden administration.”
The world’s richest man has also put pressure on federal workers to increase their productivity.
On Saturday, for example, Musk directed the Office of Personnel and Management to blast out an email to government workers demanding they produce a five-point list of their accomplishments from last week.
He had given them a deadline of midnight Monday into Tuesday to cough up the list, but OPM later clarified to human-resource departments across the government that the request was not mandatory.
“There was a lot of genius in sending it,” Trump told reporters Monday. “We’re trying to find out if people are working, and so we’re sending a letter to people, ‘Please tell us what you did last week.’
“If people don’t respond, it’s very possible that there is no such person or they’re not working.”
For weeks, liberal critics have attempted to pit Trump and Musk against one another by exploiting the two men’s egos.
“Elon called me and said, ‘They’re trying to drive us apart,’” Trump reflected to Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview that aired last week. “They said, ‘Donald Trump has ceded control of the presidency to Elon Musk.’
“It’s just so obvious. They’re so bad at it,” he said of critics.
