Almost no one had a less normal reaction to Taylor Swift’s surprise endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night than Trump supporter Elon Musk, who quickly announced on X that he would impregnate the pop star and “guard your cats with my life.”
The bizarre and crass tweet — a reference to the fact that Swift signed her endorsement “Childless Cat Lady” as a rebuttal to 𝓈ℯ𝓍ist comments made by Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance — drew immediate condemnation from users of Musk’s own social media platform, with many pointing out that the right-wing billionaire had achieved new levels of “divorced” posting.
But perhaps no criticism of the X post hits harder than the words of one of Musk’s trans daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, who took to Threads to share her thoughts on the dangerous ideology behind Musk’s grotesque attempt at a joke.
After Tuesday night’s official discussion was promptly trailed by Quick’s web breaking Instagram post declaring her help for the Harris-Walz ticket, Wilson shared that the “timing for the Taylor Quick support could never have been something more.” Yet she immediately followed that perception with editorial on her dad’s disrupting tweet, stating “Shocking incel garbage is as a matter of fact deplorable incel rubbish.”
“It’s sickening, it’s disparaging and inconceivably chauvinist,” Wilson proceeded. “You merit better.”
Wilson, who became alienated from her dad because of her change, has become progressively vocal this year following Musk’s transphobic bluster about her in a July episode of Jordan Peterson’s webcast. During that appearance, Musk said that his youngster had been “𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ed by the woke mind infection,” to which the 20-year-old Wilson later answered, “I look very really great for a dead bitch.” From that point forward, she has taken on a more open stance, giving her most memorable meeting to NBC News in late July and posting reactions of Musk on Strings, Meta’s rival to X.
After his debate loss, Trump called in to *Fox & Friends* to whine about Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Musk, who has at least 12 children, has cozied up to right-wing influencers and politicians in recent years, especially in the wake of his purchase of Twitter, now X. On July 13, following an assassination attempt on Trump, Musk publicly announced he was endorsing the Republican presidential candidate and has since jockeyed for a position in a second Trump administration.
In a particularly striking bit of contrast, Swift’s endorsement of Harris cited her support for “a woman’s right to her own body” only for Musk to make a disturbing comment about impregnating her minutes later. Polling indicates that the Trump-Vance ticket is underwater with American women — a gap not helped by Vance’s now-viral 2021 comments that the country was controlled by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.” Swift, who was holding her cat Benjamin Button in her Instagram endorsement, certainly needs no help “guarding” any of her felines.
In her series of Threads posts, Wilson wrote that she was looking forward to Swift fans voting in the upcoming election. On Wednesday afternoon, NPR’s Elena Moore reported that vote.gov had already received more than 300,000 visitors from the pop star’s Instagram post.
“Can’t wait to see the Swifties at the polls!” Wilson said. “Vote blue.”
