But when he performed “a one-armed gesture” after thumping his chest at Trump’s inauguration rally, then repeated the action, the technology titan sparked intense debate over whether he had delivered Nazi salutes in front of the watching world.
The following day, one prominent critic made clear her stance. “I’m just gonna say let’s call a spade a fucking spade,” she said. “Especially if there were two spades done in succession based on the reaction of the first spade.”
Yet this tussle is more than just a family spat playing out in public. For Wilson is the transgender child who inspired Musk’s sudden lurch from liberalism to cheerleading for Trump, sparking his pursuit of a “war on woke” after she transitioned as a teenager.
Their feud has grown even more intense after Trump’s first actions on returning to the White House included targeting transgender citizens with an executive order for the federal government to recognise only two sexes that are unchangeable.
Her stand suggests this sassy student – who responded to Musk’s claim she had been “killed” by the “woke mind virus” by saying “I look pretty good for a dead bitch” – has the profile and potential to become a prominent voice of opposition in the second Trump era, given her father’s closeness to the 47th president.
According to his biographer Walter Isaacson, Musk’s shift right began during the pandemic when he started sending weird memes and conspiracy theories to the singer Grimes – mother of three more of his children – who warned him that he was “starting to sound like someone from the far right”.
Their feud erupted into the open eight months ago. Musk, who had begun tweeting things such as “pronouns suck” on X, said he was pulling his SpaceX and Tesla headquarters out of California in protest at a law barring schools from requiring parents to be notified of a child’s gender identification change.
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Read MoreMusk added that Wilson was “born gay and slightly autistic”, condemned her gender-affirming care as “child mutilation and sterilisation” and said those promoting such “incredibly evil” treatments should be imprisoned.
“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there,” she added brutally on social media. “And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”
This is punchy stuff – and catnip to a liberal camp that detests Musk and Trump for leading the right’s fight to reshape the world, while despairing at seeing key figures from the left fall timidly into line behind this bullying pair of populist street-fighters.
Musk, who has also been wading into European politics with promotion of far-right figures, has been criticised in his guise as a free speech warrior by LGBT activists after saying words such as “cisgender” would be seen as slurs on X and defending his policy that allows users to misgender people on the platform.
In such a stormy climate the fearless voice of his daughter – rooted in their mutual disdain over an issue in the forefront of the toxic culture wars scarring democracies and dividing generations – hits back at him with an unusual ferocity and force.
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