If you’ve followed along with my political ramblings over the past few years, you know that I do not think very highly of Donald Trump. As Trump’s former Chief-of-Staff, Gen. John Kelly said, Trump is the most flawed person he has ever known.
In his heart, Trump is a condo salesman, saying whatever he has to say to get the sale. He is a reality TV star who played a successful businessman despite a string of real life business failures and bankruptcies. He is father to five kids with three different women. He’s an adjudicated rapist and a convicted felon. I could go on. But this missive isn’t about Donald John Trump. No, this is about the worst person in the world, Trump’s pal, Elon Musk.
Why do I say that Musk is the worst person in the world? There are plenty of reasons. Let’s start with the fact that Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, yet he spends his time taking jobs away from average Americans, benefits away from poor people, and healthcare away from the sick and disabled. He is an over-the-top movie villain; an insanely wealthy man who’s only goals in life are to become wealthier and to run the most powerful country in the world for his own benefit. But what he’s doing isn’t fiction. It’s real life, and real people are being hurt by his actions.
Why do we know so much about Elon Musk? Is it because he has used his wealth to build medical clinics in impoverished countries? Is it because he has built wings at children’s hospitals? Is Musk known for the money he has contributed to finding a cure for cancer or housing the homeless or building libraries? No, he hasn’t done any of these things. We know Elon Musk because he is a wealthy guy who bought a president. He’s a guy who received millions in taxpayer-funded grants, loans, and subsidies, then proceeded to take taxpayer-funded benefits away from the poor.
Musk also tried to buy the Supreme Court in Wisconsin, paying people to support his chosen candidate. He spent an obscene $22.6 million on the race. Thankfully, the good people of my beloved Wisconsin rejected his largess and elected Susan Crawford, a woman that Musk can’t stand, primarily because he has a case coming up before the Wisconsin Supreme Court and thinks Crawford will find against him.
But it’s not just the horrible public stuff that Musk does that makes him the worst person in the world. It’s the stuff he does in his private life that really shines a light on just what a terrible person he really is. For instance, Elon Musk has had fourteen children with four different women. He rarely sees many of those children, and two of the women he had kids with are suing him for sole custody and child support, claiming that Musk never sees his kids and he’s not supporting them financially.
One of his children, Vivian, is transgender. Musk has disowned her and claimed that she is dead to him. For her part, Vivian says that Musk is a cold and narcissistic father, rarely present in her life. She also says that Musk berated her when she was young for exhibiting feminine traits, pressuring her to be more masculine as early as in elementary school.
It’s hard to exaggerate the mess that the world’s richest man has made of his personal life, including the lives of his children and his baby mamas. He is exactly the type of person we tell our sons not to become. Even so, many young men look up to Musk, idolizing his wealth and seeming power. They view him as the epitome of what a man should be. But the opposite is true. A man should be a provider and a protector, two things Musk refuses to do. With all of his money, he could financially care for his children without it negatively impacting his wealth at all, yet he forces two of the mothers of his children to sue him for child support. He could spend time with his kids, yet he chooses not to, instead cosplaying in his custom black “Make America Great Again” ball cap and DOGE T-shirt.
If you’re a fan of Elon Musk, let me ask you a question: What would you say about a rich guy who has more than a dozen kids with multiple women and refuses to provide child support to many of them if that man was a black basketball player rather than a white businessman? Would that change your opinion of him? I think we know your answer. We’ve already heard what MAGA has to say about black men having kids outside of marriage, then not taking care of the kids. So, how is this different?
Despite his stated goal of ridding the government of waste, fraud, and abuse, the Wall Street Journal indicates that Musk’s efforts will only save the United States about $2.6 billion. To put that into perspective, Musk’s electric car company Tesla has received between $15 and $50 billion in grants, loans, and subsidies from U.S. taxpayers. In other words, the man taking jobs away from hard working Americans, closing down entire government agencies, and denying poor people SNAP benefits and healthcare has received far more in taxpayer dollars than he is saving.
We should not put men like Elon Musk up on a pedestal. Despite his riches, he is a horrible person; the kind of guy decent people avoid befriending and the type of hateful, cruel, misogynistic creep we would point to as the type of man we would not want our sons to become. That’s why Elon Musk is the worst person in the world.
