ripoff

At every turn, he's relied heavily on technologies developed because of the very federal largess he now deems a "ripoff."

To defend this, Musk claims it's a "ripoff" when grant funding goes to pay for salaries, lab space and equipment, even though no one can conduct scientific research without these baseline necessities.

"Can you believe that universities with tens of billions in endowments were siphoning off 60% of research award money for 'overhead'?" Musk wrote on X. "What a ripoff!"

He called the paper a shill for the "tariff lobby" and "always wrong" before saying that two of our biggest trade partners had been engaging in a "decades-long ripoff of America" prior to the tariffs he ordered on Saturday.

While it is fun to reconnect with Big Nick and watch him try new foods, there’s just something missing in this rote “Ronin” ripoff — a danger.