Mystery over why Elon Musk skipped Super Bowl 2025 after attending in previous years

Elon Musk was not astatine Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans, leaving galore scratching their heads astir why.

The billionaire's lack was noticeable, not lone due to the fact that helium has attended the crippled during the past 2 years, but besides since he's been a near-permanent fixture successful the interior ellipse of President Donald Trump, who was astatine the large game.

Trump was photographed with House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senator Tim Scott, Ivanka Trump and others adjacent to him. 

But Musk, who's been starring Trump's efforts to slim down the national bureaucracy arsenic the caput of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), was elsewhere.

Musk was astatine past year's Super Bowl successful Las Vegas, which pitted the Kansas City Chiefs against the San Francisco 49ers. He was seen with his son X AE A-Xii.

And astatine 2023's Super Bowl, Musk was close determination rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles implicit the Chiefs. 

The Eagles had their revenge past night, winning 40-22 implicit Kansas City, blowing up the long-dominant team's accidental to fastener down the archetypal ever three-peat successful NFL history.

So wherever was Musk this time?

It's not wide wherever precisely Musk was and wherefore helium skipped the Super Bowl, but the Tesla CEO has surely had a engaged fewer days and weeks starring up to Sunday.

As the caput of DOGE, helium has dispatched a radical of young, college-age men to find waste, fraud and maltreatment successful assorted authorities agencies.

First connected the database was the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is the overseas assistance enactment of the national government.

Musk called USAID a 'criminal organization' connected X, the societal media institution helium bought successful 2022, and rapidly moved to shut down the full agency.

It aboriginal came retired that Trump would beryllium firing astir 9,400 workers from USAID, leaving lone 611 'essential' employees. This determination was blocked by a national judge conscionable hours earlier the workers were acceptable to beryllium enactment connected leave. 

Musk besides acceptable his sights connected the Treasury Department, which sends retired trillions of dollars successful payments each twelvemonth for things similar Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

It was reported past play that Musk and DOGE had gained entree to the Treasury's outgo system with the blessing of Scott Bessent, Trump's recently appointed Treasury secretary.

Musk said helium wanted all authorities payments to labeled, truthful they could easy beryllium audited later. He besides said Bessent agreed to see a rationale for immoderate payments erstwhile they are approved.

The last statement was to marque definite the Treasury is not ignoring the 'do-not-pay list,' which includes entities known to beryllium fraudulent oregon out-of-line with legislature appropriations. 

After Democrats loudly protested against Musk having adjacent read-only entree to the Treasury's information - which incorporate Americans' Social Security numbers and taxation accusation - different national judge put a restraining bid connected Musk and DOGE.

Nineteen bluish states, including New York, filed suit against the Trump administration claiming the DOGE squad had been 'unlawfully' granted entree to a 'variety of delicate personally identifiable information' done the US Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS).

Musk raged against the determination from US District Judge Paul Engelmayer, an appointee of President Barack Obama.

'A corrupt justice protecting corruption,' Musk wrote successful a station astatine 2:11am connected Saturday. 'He needs to beryllium impeached NOW.'

Although Musk wasn't physically astatine this year's Super Bowl, helium intelligibly understands that it's the biggest nighttime of the twelvemonth erstwhile it comes to media attention.

Musk's net outer institution Starlink appeared successful a associated Super Bowl advertisement with T-Mobile. The commercialized focused connected however T-Mobile partnered with Starlink to radically grow compartment coverage.

Musk reposted the minute-long advertisement portion the crippled was connected and told radical to registry for the T-Mobile Starlink beta plan, which is being made disposable for escaped until July.