Tesla CEO and US Government Office boss Elon Musk (a playfully contracted as Doge to honor Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency) has published a tweet featuring the Kekius Maximus character based on Pepe The Frog Meme.
Musk has done it for the first time in four months, and quickly sparked a response from the Crypto community, particularly supporting Pepe Meme Coin. The publication of the Wednesday night tweet coincided with a significant price increase for Meme Asset.
Musk will be back with a tweet from Kekius Maximus
Musk has released images of the characters from a meme derived from Pepe the Frog, which first published in late December 2024, and temporarily changed the X account name from Elon Musk to Kekius Maximus. At the time, Maximus (which was probably a reference to the iconic Ridley Scott film released in 2000, followed by its sequel in late 2024) was dressed like a Roman general.
This time, the appearance of the meme characters has changed fundamentally. This time, he’s dressed like Captain America, a popular cartoon character, and sitting on the couch and playing video games. In the background, the image of a rocket flying into space on the wall. This is probably a reference to Mask’s SpaceX Company and the popular bullish crypto meme “To the Moon.”
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– Pepe (@pepecoineth) April 9, 2025
Despite his love for Dogecoin, Elon Musk recently said that the US government has no plans to use Doge or other cryptocurrencies, at least for the time being.
Pepe Holder was excited and the price of meme coins skyrocketed
The Crypto community responded to Musk’s Pepe Tweet with a wave of enthusiasm and posted other Pepe images in the comments. Some portrayed Pepe as President Donald Trump, celebrating the revival of the crypto market. The latter followed the bullish reverse of the stock market as Trump put in place a 90-day suspension on trade tariffs recently announced.
Still, he has increased them on Chinese goods by more than 100% in total, responding to his refusal to scrap 34% of tariffs on American goods. Bitcoin surged nearly 10% on Wednesday, exceeding $83,000, but now it’s rebounding and changing hands at $81,680.
Meme Cryptocurrency Pepe is trading at $0.000056714 after a 7% increase in the last 24 hours.
