A new memo offering "deferred resignation" to all federal employees seems to be taking its strategy from Musk's chaotic Twitter takeover.

Around the same time as Musk’s post, hundreds of thousands of federal workers received an email also titled “Fork in the Road,” with a similar offer: Simply send an email to the Office of Personnel Management with the word “Resign” in the subject line, and you’ll receive eight months’ pay, so long as you reply before Feb. 6.

Nothing is more dangerous than getting between JB Pritzker and the buffet table!” Elon Musk wrote from his personal account on the X platform that he owns. X is formerly known as Twitter. Gov. JB Pritzker responded to the message by posting an image of himself purchasing a hot dog at a famous Chicago hot dog stand – the Wieners Circle.

A community post on Elon Musk's tweet said: "This is objectively false. Subways have more than 10x the capacity of a road for cars. The average capacity of a single roadway is typically ~2,000 passengers per hour while the average capacity of a subway line is closer to 50,000 passengers per hour."

The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff in 2022.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk seems to have inspired the Trump administration’s latest bold move to restructure the federal workforce, a move that mirrors the one he made when he bought Twitter. The Trump administration on Tuesday sent a blunt ultimatum to federal employees.

In January 2025, a post about tech billionaire Elon Musk, purportedly written by someone who knew him for years, was shared widely online. Philip Low, a scientist and founder of NeuroVigil, a company that developed a portable brain activity monitor,

The Trump administration offered an ultimatum to some federal employees asking them to choose if they want to resign in a pitch that echoes Elon Musk's moves at Twitter.

In an interview on MSNBC, Gov. Tim Walz said "of course he did" when discussing about whether or not Elon Musk's gesture was a Nazi salute.

Elon Musk, the world's favorite chaos architect is no stranger to stirring up headlines—and not always for his rocket launches or electric car empire. From sparring with politicians to crashing crypto markets in a single tweet,

In a move straight out of the Twitter and Tesla playbook, Elon Musk is apparently camping out just steps away from the White House.