Another black eye for Elon Musk as his $44bn prized possession crashes

By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 21:20 BST, 30 May 2025 | Updated: 21:41 BST, 30 May 2025

Elon Musk has suffered another blow as his $44 billion prized possession has crashed.

His X platform, which he purchased for the eye-watering amount, is down for thousands of users across the US.

Downdetector, a site the monitors online outages, shows the issues hit around 3:45pm ET, with users citing problems with the app and website.

An outage map shows New York City, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles are experiencing glitches with X. 

Users are seeing blank newsfeeds when trying to search the platform and recent posts are not loading.

The outage comes as Musk showed up to his Oval Office farewell with a black eye. 

The world’s richest man claimed he received the injury from his five-year-old son X, saying they were ‘horsing around and I told him to punch me in the face.’

‘It turns out a five year old can punch, actually. I didn’t really feel much at the time,’ he said.

Elon Musk has suffered another blow as his $40 billion prized possession has crashed

While Downdetector’s outage map showed major cities in the red, it appears the outage is widespread.

Users have flocked to Downdetector to share their frustrations about X being down, with many saying they have no access in Oregon, California, Utah and Arizona. 

Musk, however, was in Washington DC bidding farewell to the White House.

Trump thanked Musk for his work at the Department of Government Efficiency as his five-month stint in office came to an end, and added that Musk would be ‘going back and forth’ between the White House and private life.

The billionaire was handed a large key by Trump before vowing that DOGE’s work slashing the federal government’s spending would not end with him leaving.

He likened his work slashing government spending to a personal form of Buddhism, describing it as a ‘way of life’ that he hopes permeates throughout the government.

Musk’s role working for Trump was always intended to be a temporary stint, however his departure notably comes after he broke ranks with the White House and trashed its ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ earlier this week.

He said he was ‘disappointed’ in the president for ‘undermining’ the work he did at DOGE, in a parting shot before saying he was returning to his multi-billion-dollar businesses ’24/7.’

Musk’s X platform, which he purchased for the eye-watering amount, is down for thousands of users across the US. Downdetector, a site the monitors online outages, shows the issues hit around 3:45pm ET with users citing problems with the app and website

Musk alluded to these complaints in his Friday meeting with Trump, saying his department became the ‘DOGE boogeyman’ and was unfairly blamed for controversies that weren’t his fault.

Many of the cuts made by DOGE have not been codified, but Trump said at the meeting on Friday he was ‘totally committed to making the DOGE cuts permanent.’

‘This is not the end of DOGE, this is really the beginning,’ Musk added.

‘The DOGE team will only grow stronger over time. I’m confident over time we will see a trillion dollars of waste and fraud reduction.

‘I think the DOGE team is doing an incredible job, they’re going to continue doing an incredible job and I’ll continue visiting her and being a friend and adviser to the president.’

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Another black eye for Elon Musk as his $44bn prized possession crashes

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