During the presidential campaign, tech mogul and owner of X, Elon Musk, appeared as one of Republican Donald Trump's most loyal supporters. In his victory speech, Wednesday November 6, 2024, he was one of the first to be thanked by the president-elect. “We have a new star, a star is born… Elon! He's an incredible guy,” exclaimed Donald Trump. Detailed thanks since Elon Musk played a key role in his re-election, particularly financially by becoming the main donor to Donald Trump's campaign. According to the Federal Electoral Commission, cited by our colleagues from International mailElon Musk reportedly donated around $132 million to Donald Trump and the Republicans.
“I don’t see my future in the United States”
Following the announcement of the results confirming Donald Trump's victory, Elon Musk's daughter announced that she no longer wanted to live in the United States. The latter has been at odds with her father since she publicly announced her trans identity. “I've been thinking about it for a while, but yesterday reinforced my idea. I don’t see my future in the United States,” she wrote on the social network Threads, X's main competitor. “Even if he's only in office for 4 years, even if anti-trans regulations don't magically happen, the people who voluntarily voted for this aren't going away anytime soon,” she added.
“An absent, narcissistic and cruel father”
The 21-year-old is one of Elon Musk's 12 children. Relations between father and daughter deteriorated after she announced she was starting a gender transition. In 2022, Reuters reported that Vivian Jenna Wilson had filed to change her name in accordance with her new gender identity and because “I no longer live with my biological father and no longer wish to be linked to him in any way”. In an interview given last June to the American media NBC NewsVivian Jenna Wilson opened up about her childhood, saying Elon Musk had been “an absent, narcissistic and cruel father because she was homosexual and too feminine”.
According to the biography of the billionaire written by Walter Isaacson, cited by Vanity Fairit was in 2022 that she decided to completely cut ties with him. Elon Musk previously called Vivian Jenna Wilson a “communist”who had been brainwashed to “thinking that every rich person is bad”.
