In a surprising incident that left employees at a government office both amused and puzzled, television screens were unexpectedly taken over by a bizarre video.

The footage, appearing almost satirical, featured AI-generated figures in an unusual and unexpected scenario, sparking curiosity and confusion among viewers.

The video, emblazoned with the phrase 'Long Live the Real King,' quickly became social media after a HUD insider leaked the footage to Vox reporter Rachel Cohen.

The surreal scene raised eyebrows and questions about the security of government systems and the intent behind the hack.

Cafeteria TV screens were hacked to display altered footage of public figures. Credit: X

While the source of the hack remains a mystery, the HUD quickly responded, with spokesperson Kasey Lovett condemning the incident as a 'waste of taxpayer dollars and resources.'

Lovett assured the public that the department would take 'appropriate action' against anyone within the agency found to be responsible.

The hack comes amid growing tensions within the federal workforce, particularly in response to Elon Musk's aggressive approach to streamlining government operations.

Musk, who serves as a special adviser to the president, has spearheaded the Trump administration's DOGE program to enhance government efficiency. However, his methods have not been well-received by all.

Government workers have expressed increasing frustration with Musk's initiatives, especially after he emailed demanding employees to account for their weekly accomplishments.

The email, which required a list of approximately five bullet points and a CC to their manager, was seen by many as overbearing and intrusive.

Musk's warning that a failure to comply would be considered a resignation only added fuel to the fire.

The backlash against Musk's tactics has been growing, with some federal employees labelling him an 'unelected dictator' and calling for his dismissal.

Despite the uproar, President Trump has continued to support Musk's efforts to combat waste, fraud, and abuse within the government.

Musk, for his part, seems to be taking the controversy in stride. At the Conservative Political Action Conference, he was celebrating a gift of a chrome-enhanced chainsaw from Argentinian President Javier Milei, embracing his role as a living meme.

'It’s like, there’s living the dream, and there’s living the meme. And that’s pretty much what’s happening, you know,' Musk quipped.

The incident at HUD is a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities within government systems and the potential for technology to be used unexpectedly.

It also highlighted the ongoing debate over the role of private sector figures in public service and the balance between efficiency and respect for government employees.

As we navigate the complexities of modern governance, it's clear that cybersecurity and the management of federal operations will remain hot topics.

Credit: YouTube​

Key Takeaways

• The Department of Housing and Urban Development's cafeteria TV screens displayed hacked footage showing a manipulated video of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
• The video's content sparked controversy and concerns over the use of taxpayer dollars, leading to promises of investigation and appropriate action from HUD.
• Elon Musk, as a special adviser to the president, is pushing the Trump administration's DOGE program, which aims to improve government efficiency but causes unrest among federal employees.
• President Trump has publicly supported Musk's controversial approach to government reform despite backlash from bureaucrats and protests for his removal.

What are your thoughts on the balance between innovation and tradition in government? Have you ever experienced a workplace initiative that felt more disruptive than productive? Share your stories and opinions with us in the comments below.

 

[Rickcb63]

It's called being kind, and giving the benefit of the doubt?

I called as it is !

 

[Luckyus]

I called as it is !

I was being facetious?

 

[Phantom55]

Where the hell do you get your info ?
What their doing is putting money back to the people, everyone is going to receive a stimulus check $5k , which is better than Biden giving $700 to a household that lost the home and property in North Carolina and the Fires in California, Malibu , Palasaides, etc
And now they’re finding the billions of dollars that has been fraudulently stolen, and it extends to Australia as well !
And you say that their bad people for doing what all governments should be doing ?
Working for the people !!

proof you can never satisfy everyone......people dont like seeing a rich person doing well, the reason trump is doing so well is he is NOT a politician, the world needs business people to run a country as a business because that is what it IS..HE is good at it and will do very well

 

[mOiOz]

Thank God for President Trump and Elon Musk. They traipsed the countryside telling voters this is exactly what they would do - cut government spending. The people responded, and voted accordingly.

To follow are a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.

Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.

This is tax-payers money. With the billions of dollars they have saved, 20% of that total is going BACK TO THE TAX-PAYERS.

What is it missing from those who do not understand this? You really need to change your source of truth...or at least open your mind to hear both sides of the MSM jibberish you are listening to.

WELL SAID!, it sounds exactly like all the millions of idiots siding with terrorism and don't even know it!!!!

 

[Jo Piper3]

Where the hell do you get your info ?
What their doing is putting money back to the people, everyone is going to receive a stimulus check $5k , which is better than Biden giving $700 to a household that lost the home and property in North Carolina and the Fires in California, Malibu , Palasaides, etc
And now they’re finding the billions of dollars that has been fraudulently stolen, and it extends to Australia as well !
And you say that their bad people for doing what all governments should be doing ?
Working for the people !!

So everyone will receive $5,000? I find that very hard to believe. What is the timeline for this 'payment' please?

 

[mylittletibbies]

Where the hell do you get your info ?
What their doing is putting money back to the people, everyone is going to receive a stimulus check $5k , which is better than Biden giving $700 to a household that lost the home and property in North Carolina and the Fires in California, Malibu , Palasaides, etc
And now they’re finding the billions of dollars that has been fraudulently stolen, and it extends to Australia as well !
And you say that their bad people for doing what all governments should be doing ?
Working for the people !!

Oh. for heaven's sake. Do you have any idea of how many people there are in the USA and everyone is going to get $5,000.

It's 341,397,650. Multiply that by $5,000
It comes to $1,956,738, 250,000.
As you don't seem to be very good at maths that' s one trillion, nine hundred and fifty six billion,seven hundred and thirty eight million. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

So they're supposedly finding billions, and that's debatable considering Trumps propensity for lying and considering they
are refusing to provide any proof to back up these statements. And then they are going to give away almost $2 trillion. to add to the trillions they are already in debt for. They are already drowning in debt.

Really!!You should put your brain into gear before you speak. That's how Trump got into power in the first place.
Too many ignorant people believing his crap instead of using the brains God gave them.

 

[mylittletibbies]

proof you can never satisfy everyone......people dont like seeing a rich person doing well, the reason trump is doing so well is he is NOT a politician, the world needs business people to run a country as a business because that is what it IS..HE is good at it and will do very well

Dream on. He's been bankrupted six times. If that's good business. tell me what's bad!!
And he's not going well. Haven't you seen the latest polls. I suppose you think they're fake news.

 

[Mikeyboy2012]

They are saying what we're all thinking ...LOL!

Combatting waste is one thing, ripping the guts out of departments is another.

I'm so glad I don't live in America.

 

[Joydie]

Thank God for President Trump and Elon Musk. They traipsed the countryside telling voters this is exactly what they would do - cut government spending. The people responded, and voted accordingly.

To follow are a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.

Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.

This is tax-payers money. With the billions of dollars they have saved, 20% of that total is going BACK TO THE TAX-PAYERS.

What is it missing from those who do not understand this? You really need to change your source of truth...or at least open your mind to hear both sides of the MSM jibberish you are listening to.

Well, thank you very much MaccaMan! You have literally stolen all the stuff I was going to say! Seriously though, you forgot the $5.1m in aid to Haiti. Funny thing is, it never got there. Somehow or other, it ended up in the pocket of Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary. It bought her and her husband a very nice house.

You make a point about the MSM. They're all in the pocket of BlackRock, the world's largest financier. BlackRock dictates the terms and the media lackeys tug their forelocks and do as they're told. BlackRock was responsible for Woolies pulling their Australia Day merchandise off the shelves last year. Money, as ever, talks.

I'll make two further points: because my views are against the prevailing narrative, I'm constantly attacked, both online and in person. I love it! It stimulates me mentally. During these debates, I almost always say, 'Don't believe a thing you see, hear or read on mainstream media.' They almost always reply, 'I don't.' They then proceed to continue debating by quoting excerpts from last night's news or something they read in the paper.

Secondly, apparently the American left wingers are upset by what Musk is doing, because he wasn't elected to the position. For many years now, I've been saying and writing that Australia isn't governed by the elected government. We're governed by public servants, who are almost exclusively left wing. They support Labor governments and white ant coalition governments. For the most part, they're faceless and nameless. Elon Musk is doing everything necessary in the full glare of the public spotlight. The public servants have spent the last 50+ years spending like drunken sailors on causes close to their hearts, and employing IT experts to ensure that their corruption was hidden behind such a convoluted web of lies, that it was going to be almost impossible to untangle it. They failed. Too bad,so sad!

 

[Luckyus]

proof you can never satisfy everyone......people dont like seeing a rich person doing well, the reason trump is doing so well is he is NOT a politician, the world needs business people to run a country as a business because that is what it IS..HE is good at it and will do very well

I find it very hard to reconcile how someone can go into politics a virtual pauper and end up a multi millionaire. Trump went into politics a millionaire and although I haven't heard this time but the last his wage was a dollar because he couldn't do it for free the rest he donated to charity, can you imagine any of ours doing the same seems instead they want to runup expenses to match.

 

[mylittletibbies]

Well, thank you very much MaccaMan! You have literally stolen all the stuff I was going to say! Seriously though, you forgot the $5.1m in aid to Haiti. Funny thing is, it never got there. Somehow or other, it ended up in the pocket of Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary. It bought her and her husband a very nice house.

You make a point about the MSM. They're all in the pocket of BlackRock, the world's largest financier. BlackRock dictates the terms and the media lackeys tug their forelocks and do as they're told. BlackRock was responsible for Woolies pulling their Australia Day merchandise off the shelves last year. Money, as ever, talks.

I'll make two further points: because my views are against the prevailing narrative, I'm constantly attacked, both online and in person. I love it! It stimulates me mentally. During these debates, I almost always say, 'Don't believe a thing you see, hear or read on mainstream media.' They almost always reply, 'I don't.' They then proceed to continue debating by quoting excerpts from last night's news or something they read in the paper.

Secondly, apparently the American left wingers are upset by what Musk is doing, because he wasn't elected to the position. For many years now, I've been saying and writing that Australia isn't governed by the elected government. We're governed by public servants, who are almost exclusively left wing. They support Labor governments and white ant coalition governments. For the most part, they're faceless and nameless. Elon Musk is doing everything necessary in the full glare of the public spotlight. The public servants have spent the last 50+ years spending like drunken sailors on causes close to their hearts, and employing IT experts to ensure that their corruption was hidden behind such a convoluted web of lies, that it was going to be almost impossible to untangle it. They failed. Too bad,so sad!

Aren't we lucky we have somebody so damn clever to tell us all how stupid we are and how clever you are.
Self praise is no recommendation.

 

[mylittletibbies]

I find it very hard to reconcile how someone can go into politics a virtual pauper and end up a multi millionaire. Trump went into politics a millionaire and although I haven't heard this time but the last his wage was a dollar because he couldn't do it for free the rest he donated to charity, can you imagine any of ours doing the same seems instead they want to runup expenses to match.

If you believe that you'd believe anything.
He doesn't need a wage anyway , he's just passed massive tax relief for billionaires (funny that, considering he's supposedly one).

 

[Luckyus]

If you believe that you'd believe anything.
He doesn't need a wage anyway , he's just passed massive tax relief for billionaires (funny that, considering he's supposedly one).

It was proven his first time around, that was the one thing media couldn't dispute.

 

[SGH]

I find it very hard to reconcile how someone can go into politics a virtual pauper and end up a multi millionaire. Trump went into politics a millionaire and although I haven't heard this time but the last his wage was a dollar because he couldn't do it for free the rest he donated to charity, can you imagine any of ours doing the same seems instead they want to runup expenses to match.

But he claims it back as a tax deduction

 

[mylittletibbies]

It was proven his first time around, that was the one thing media couldn't dispute.

Why would you think he would need a wage,. He's a grifter, gives with one hand takes back 10 fold with the other.
He didn't want the Presidency for the money. You're a fool if you think that.
He's got bigger fish to fry.

 

[Penny4]

Thank God for President Trump and Elon Musk. They traipsed the countryside telling voters this is exactly what they would do - cut government spending. The people responded, and voted accordingly.

To follow are a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.

Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.

This is tax-payers money. With the billions of dollars they have saved, 20% of that total is going BACK TO THE TAX-PAYERS.

What is it missing from those who do not understand this? You really need to change your source of truth...or at least open your mind to hear both sides of the MSM jibberish you are listening to.

You missed the bullet point that he failed to deliver on his promise to lower grocery prices for Americans who voted for this lowering.

 

[Jest]

those who can't reply to an email explaining what they have done for that past week, have a problem so shoot through. albo should be going through his 36,000 odd. if there is ever a rort it is this. Good on President and Musk for having the balls to act on it. It's a pity we did not have the same here.

 

[Jest]

Thank God for President Trump and Elon Musk. They traipsed the countryside telling voters this is exactly what they would do - cut government spending. The people responded, and voted accordingly.

To follow are a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.

Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.

This is tax-payers money. With the billions of dollars they have saved, 20% of that total is going BACK TO THE TAX-PAYERS.

What is it missing from those who do not understand this? You really need to change your source of truth...or at least open your mind to hear both sides of the MSM jibberish you are listening to.

thank you for this. the ones who complain are blind to the truth and are abc or as you say msm. i love fox for the truth.

 

[Jest]

Why would you think he would need a wage,. He's a grifter, gives with one hand takes back 10 fold with the other.
He didn't want the Presidency for the money. You're a fool if you think that.
He's got bigger fish to fr

You missed the bullet point that he failed to deliver on his promise to lower grocery prices for Americans who voted for this lowering.

he is pretty good but he can't do miracles in less than 2 months. albo has had 3 years and look at us> now this is when you should be complaining. silly comment.

 

[Jest]

why have you printed some stupid ai thing? pretty dumb.