Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello Mocks Elon Musk For Clueless Reference To Band

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello couldn’t miss a chance to tease Elon Musk after the tech mogul made an awkward reference to his band’s name over the weekend.

In a Sunday post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk, the social platform’s owner, wondered, “Why are so many people raging FOR the machine?”

Though the Tesla CEO didn’t exactly explain who or what he was referring to, that same day he shared a post asking why “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala” after a man apparently tried to shoot former President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach, Florida golf course.

(After being criticized for appearing to endorse violence, Musk deleted the tweet and, in subsequent posts, dismissed his comment as a joke.)

No matter the meaning, Morello seemed amused by the billionaire’s attempt to frame himself as some sort of rebel and decided to respond with his own post.

“Funny cuz Elon was the kid on the cover of Evil Empire,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer quipped, sharing the cover of Rage’s 1996 album, which features a clean-cut kid wearing a cape and a shirt bearing the letter “e” for evil.

The album’s title was a reference to Republican President Ronald Reagan, borrowing a phrase he used to describe the Soviet Union during the final gasps of the Cold War in the 1980s.

Meant to be a subversive dig at conservatives, the cover depicts an all-American kid as the image of evil instead of the communists that Reagan and his peers raged against.

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