- Elon Musk tweeted a photo that he said showed his bedside table on Monday.
- Objects on the table include cans of caffeine-free Diet Coke and what appear to be two replica guns.
Elon Musk tweeted a photo of what he said was his bedside table on Monday, including four cans of caffeine-free Diet Coke alongside what appears to be two replica guns and a famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River.
While the photo may seem strange at first glance, it follows previous Musk comments on everything from gun rights to even the soda, and offers an apparent glimpse into his world.
Musk didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for confirmation of the various objects in the picture, but we've broken down each item we spotted in a list below.
This isn't the first time Musk has expressed his love of Diet Coke
15 years ago, the number of cans on Musk's desk might have been double what it is in the photo.
In a 2007 profile of Musk, Inc. wrote that Musk was drinking eight cans of Diet Coke a day, until he started cutting back.
"I got so freaking jacked that I seriously started to feel like I was losing my peripheral vision," Musk said. "Now, the office has caffeine-free Diet Coke."
In June, he tweeted, "Diet Coke is amazing, especially the soda fountain version at movie theaters with salt & butter popcorn" and that he doesn't care "if it lowers my life expectancy," according to The Washington Post.
There also stains from the cans on the table. In a follow-up tweet, Musk said "There is no excuse for my lack of coasters."
Musk has voiced support for gun ownership before
After the Robb Elementary School shooting in May, that left 19 students and two teachers dead, Musk expressed support for the 2nd Amendment.
"I strongly believe that the right to bear arms is an important safeguard against potential tyranny of government," Musk told CNBC. "Historically, maintaining their power over the people is why those in power did not allow public ownership of guns."
However, he added that gun sales should come with "tight background checks" and sales of assault weapons should be limited to special circumstances, such as for gun-range owners and those in "a high risk location, like gang warfare."
But both of the guns in Musk's photo appear to be fake.
The one inside the Washington-painting case appears to be a replica of Washington's flintlock pistol. Listings online of a Deluxe George Washington Boxed Set, such as this one at ReplicaDungeon.com, describe the gun as "non-firing."
The other one, underneath the Washington painting, appears to be a replica of a revolver from the video game "Deus Ex: Human Revolution," according to The New York Post.
Musk must really like George Washington
The replica gun and painting aren't the only Washington-related things on Musk's table.
In the top-right corner there is a group of books. One of them looks to be Washington's "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation." It could be part of a collection of "Books of American Wisdom," which also includes the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and Benjamin Franklin's "The Way of Wealth."
There also appears to be a Buddhist ritual object on the table
In the bottom-left corner of the photo appears to be a Buddhist ritual object called a Vajra Dorje, according to the New York Post.
According to the education nonprofit Khan Academy, the vajra is one of the "most important ritual objects of Tibetan Buddhism."
It represents "method," which " indicates the compassionate activities of the bodhisattva that relieve living beings of their miseries," according to the Khan Academy website.