When Taylor Swift signed off her endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 2024 election Tuesday evening by self-identifying as a “childless cat lady,” in a jab at Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, Elon Musk seems to have thought, well, I can change one of those things.
“Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life,” he tweeted shortly after midnight Wednesday morning.
Swift, whose prolonged silence around the 2024 election puzzled fans given her past opposition of Republican candidate Donald Trump, Trump’s apparent goading of Swift by posting doctored images of Swift implying her backing and by publicly praising her friend and fellow Kansas City Chiefs WAG Brittany Mahomes for her “support.” In her Harris endorsement, Swift called out the AI images Trump had shared explicitly, and went on to back up her support of Harris and belief that “we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.”
Musk, for his part, has been a Trump stan whom the Republican candidate has said would “consider” for a Cabinet post (Trump also said that he couldn’t actually give him a place in the Cabinet, just…think about it), and who hosted a two-hour glitchfest of a livestream with Trump on his own platform X (formerly Twitter) in August.
Musk is the father of at least a dozen children from at least three different mothers: Six with his first wife, Justine Wilson, three with ex-girlfriend Grimes, and three with Shivon Zilis. Earlier this summer, the Wall Street Journal also reported that Musk had asked a SpaceX employee to “have his babies” on multiple occasions.
Rules for use of the platform X, which Musk owns, specifically prohibits abusive content. “You may not share abusive content, engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so,” the policy reads, which seems to run counter to a message directed specifically at someone implying uninvited and aggressive sexual attention.
Musk’s comment left out a last name, so, y’know, plausible deniability.
Vanity Fair’s requests for comment to representatives for Taylor Swift and an email to Elon Musk were not immediately answered.
