President Donald Trump froze funding to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and put thousands of employees on leave as part of a government efficiency initiative led by billionaire Elon Musk.

Mike Benz appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast in late December to discuss USAID, spurring Musk’s first mention of the agency.

Elon Musk is saying that USAID — and untold other regions of the American federal government — has constructed a false, "Truman Show"-esque reality around us. Keyword: saying. It means nothing, and Musk — who's knee-deep in digitally-driven power grab within the federal government — has offered no proof of the notion that we're living in an intentionally constructed false reality built by the foreign aid agency he's bragged about taking a "woodchipper" to.