Maye Musk explained Monday that the repeated demonization of her son, Elon Musk, made her reassess her view of the media, suggesting it had been more “dishonest” than she originally believed.
The mother of the iconic billionaire, who had been registered Democrat, was asked about recent comments from Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA), who contemplated on Sunday that the Democratic Party needs to win back the voters’ trust and that their party represents them. Musk suggested that it is not just Democrats who need to win back trust but also the general media.
“As I said, they used to always hate on Elon for 15 years, but I trusted them with the other news,” Maye Musk said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “We either hated the Republican Party, they hated Fox News, and then I realized ‘no, they are dishonest in all aspects,’ and that’s sad.”
Musk further explained that the media made things “even worse” for her son, which made her think “maybe they’re lying about everybody else as well.”
Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump getting sworn back into the White House, Musk’s son has been tapped to co-head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to decrease waste across the federal government. In previewing the work her son and fellow DOGE co-head Vivek Ramaswamy will do, Maye Musk stated there are two things the two billionaires will ask people: what they achieved “this past week” while mandating in-person work.
“And just those two will eliminate a lot of people, and rightly so, because if you didn’t have to come in and prepare things, it makes things much easier,” Musk said.
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On Thursday, Elon Musk drew the ire of Axios CEO Jim VandeHei for how the billionaire stated his fellow X users “are the media now,” a claim VandeHei deemed “bulls***.” The Axios CEO also contended that having “a blue checkmark” and a “Twitter handle” does not make one a reporter.
Over the weekend, Musk has floated and joked about the possibility of buying MSNBC, which he made after Comcast announced it would spin off a large chunk of NBCUniversal cable channels. Podcast host Joe Rogan, host of The Joe Rogan Experience, jokingly offered to take MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow’s position, adding that he would “wear the same outfit and glasses” and “tell the same lies.”