Oh, no. Even Elon Musk is doing April Fools’ Day.

Oh, Elon:

For the unaware, “chemtrails” refers to a conspiracy theory that the vapor trails left in the sky by jets are sinister chemicals being sprayed by the government. Given that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is an adviser to a conspiracy-minded president who has ignored government experts and proposed massive cuts to science funding, this is maybe not the best look?

And as Box CEO Aaron Levie points out, the real bizarre stuff technologists like Musk are working on makes silly jokes about chemtrails a little strange:

The tweet Musk should have tweeted was scooped by the parody account Bored Elon Musk:

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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