WASHINGTON (The Trough) — Elon Musk told reporters Thursday that he had no knowledge of the contents of an AI safety executive order he helped kill during a late-night phone call with President Trump, adding that he also had no idea he was speaking to the president because he thought it was a drunk dial from David Sacks. The billionaire insisted he merely “chatted about rockets and DOGE” and accidentally mentioned the order should be canceled.

Musk’s denial came hours after he, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sacks placed separate calls to Trump on Wednesday night, leading the president to abruptly scrap the signing ceremony Thursday morning. The order would have required AI labs to voluntarily submit dangerous models to the government for review—a burden Musk characterized as “literally unreadable.”

“I was in the middle of a ketamine gummy and thought I was talking to my buddy Sacks about the new Anthropic model that can hack the power grid,” Musk told reporters outside the White House. “Next thing I know, the president is canceling something and I’m being blamed. I don’t even know what an executive order is. I just build cars and occasionally launch them into space.”

White House officials confirmed that the order, which would have mandated a 90-day safety review window for frontier AI models, was scrapped after Trump learned that some CEOs “couldn’t make the ceremony.” The president reportedly became enraged when he realized only three of the eight invited tech leaders had RSVP’d yes.

“It was a party with bad attendance, so he killed the policy,” said Chuck Fumble, former White House event coordinator. “The fate of American AI safety now hinges on whether Mark Zuckerberg has a prior brunch commitment.”

Sacks, who initially supported the order before calling Trump at 11 p.m. to reverse course, declined to comment. His staff said they had no idea where he was. At press time, the nation’s leading AI labs were already planning to release their most dangerous models unhindered—a process that one anonymous CEO described as “finally, some freedom from the tyranny of asking nicely."