Komanduri, a strategist who has worked on several Democratic presidential campaigns and regularly provides political commentary on MSNBC, outlined how Musk has taken over the part

The Facebook post is an example of what could be called “stolen satire,” in which content originally written and presented as parody is captured and reposted in a way that makes it appear authentic. As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, which is what happened here.

Videos circulating online showed Elon Musk attending the event at Mar-a-Lago alongside his mother, Maye, and the actor Sylvester Stallone.