After Elon Musk’s ex, his transgender daughter took to social media in turn to give her opinion on the controversial gesture, akin to Nazi salutes, made by the multi-billionaire during the president’s inauguration American Monday.
“I’m just going to say: let’s call a spade a f*ckin spade. Especially if there were two successive spikes, after the reaction to the first spike,” Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson, reacted on Wednesday in a publication that had reached nearly 300,000 views on Meta’s Threads social network. , reported by “The Independent”.
Without even naming her father, from whom she distanced herself in recent years by changing her last name, many Internet users quickly made the link with the incident during which the multi-billionaire allegedly performed two Nazi-appearing salutes during the Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday.
To preserve the analogy used by the young woman, the English expression “to call a spade a spade”, which normally translates into French as “call a spade a spade”, will be used literally in this article, it that is, “calling a spade a spade.”
Because in a second message, Vivian Wilson openly criticized the fact that many tried to minimize the gestures by comparing them instead to a “socially awkward hand signal from an autistic man”, to use the words of the historian Aaron Astor at AFP. The multi-billionaire revealed, in 2021, that he had Asperger’s syndrome.
“I don’t know why you are reacting so forcefully [à ma publication]I’m clearly only talking about card games. I mean, I have ADHD and it was CLEARLY just an accident that people interpreted to mean something other than just cards,” she quipped.
“After all, there’s no evidence that I’m not just talking about maps. You know…people assume I’m not just talking about cards, it shows how dishonest people/media can be,” she continued.
-Screenshot from Threads
In a third publication, the young woman insisted on the ease of denying one’s intentions by inventing other pretexts.
“For those who can read between the lines, do you understand how easy this is to do? Plausible deniability […] That’s all I’m saying,” she concluded on Threads.
The day before, Elon Musk’s ex-partner, Canadian musician Grimes, reacted in turn by saying she was “happy to denounce Nazism and the far right” publicly to set the record straight on her own. ideological positions.
For his part, Elon Musk defended himself on
