The index to future histories chronicling Donald Trump’s rise and fall got a new entry on Monday night, courtesy Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night Live show: “Elonia Musk.”

The nicknname follows a flurry of palace intrigue around Musk’s appearance in a “family photo” snapped on election night that featured the billionaire X owner and his son but not once-and-future First Lady Melania Trump.

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“I think it’s a little weird, right?” said CNN’s Ana Navarro on Friday after Trump family members posted the pic to X. “I mean, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere at all times. He’s like Secretary of Everything, and at the same time, he’s like the First Lady.”

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Melania Trump did show at Trump’s victory speech later that night.

The “First Lady” assignment picked up steam over the weekend as rumors swirled that Musk’s online nemesis author, Stephen King, had trolled him on X with the same moniker, and Musk banned him from his increasingly right-wing platform. The speculation stoked accusations of hypocrisy on the part of the self-described free-speech advocate.

The X ban rumor was debunked by Politifact, but nevertheless inspired a rash of memes feeding the world’s richest man’s insatiable demand for attention.