Elon Musk’s Response to Taylor Swift Backing Kamala Harris Branded ‘Creepy’

There has been some backlash to how Elon Musk responded to Taylor Swift’s presidential endorsement, as he offered to give the singer a child and protect her cats.
Following Tuesday’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the pop star posted on Instagram that she would be voting for Harris.
She posted her endorsement alongside a photo of her holding a cat and signed the message with “Childless Cat Lady”—seemingly a gibe at Ohio Senator JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, who previously called Harris and other members of the Democratic Party “childless cat ladies.”
Musk responded to Swift’s endorsement on X, formerly Twitter, writing: “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.”
Armand Domalewski, a pro-Democratic data scientist, responded, “This s*** is creepy man,” while the user CB, a Republican supporting Harris, told Musk, “You are creepy and weird.”
Ben Collins, the CEO of the satirical news organization The Onion, replied: “Sir you have reached unseen levels of divorced. No one has ever been more divorced than you in this moment.”
Newsweek has contacted Musk via X’s press email and Swift via her representatives for comment.
Several X users called the post “weird”—possibly in reference to a trend started by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, who began using the label to describe Trump and Vance in July.
Speaking about Vance at a rally in Philadelphia last month, Walz said, “I just have to say it—you know it; you feel it—these guys are creepy and, yes, just weird as hell.”
Walz welcomed Swift’s endorsement, telling MSNBC: “I am incredibly grateful, first of all, to Taylor Swift. I say that also as a cat owner.”
“That was eloquent, and it was clear, and that’s the type of courage we need in America,” he continued.
Vance has said he regrets that people took his “childless cat ladies” remark the wrong way. Newsweek has contacted Vance via email for further comment.
The Republican vice presidential nominee made the remark while running for the Senate in 2021. He argued that Harris and others did not have a “direct stake” in the country because they did not have biological children.
“We are effectively run in this country—via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs—by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” he said on Fox News.
In a recent interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press, Vance said it was a “sarcastic comment” that had been “willfully misinterpreted.”