Grimes rips Elon Musk for using their 4-year-old son as ‘a prop’ in Trump appearances
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell also said that the little boy’s presence in an Oval Office press conference with Trump Tuesday was ‘a power play’ by the tech billionaire.
The 4-year-old son of Elon Musk appears to have become an almost indispensable accessory for his public appearances as the new head of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the boy’s mother, the musician Grimes, isn’t happy about it.
Grimes, who shares three children with her former partner Musk, expressed her unhappiness on his social media platform X, after Musk brought their young son with him to an Oval Office press conference with Trump on Tuesday, where he defended his efforts to drastically cut federal spending and dismiss workers across the U.S. government.
In response to an X post about how polite the boy appeared in the Oval Office, Grimes said: “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.”
Elon Musk and Grimes attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)The singer, whose real name is Claire Boucher, drew sympathy from others who worried that the boy was being used “as a prop” by his billionaire father under “bizarre circumstances.”
Grimes dated Musk from 2018 and 2022 and had three children with him, the latter two by surrogate. The oldest is their son, X Æ A-Xii, who is commonly referred to as X, like the social media platform Musk bought in 2022.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell opined that X’s presence in the Oval Office Tuesday was a “power play” by Musk, the world’s richest man, to exercise his dominance over the president and to show that he can do “whatever he wants in that room.” On his show, “The Last Word,” Tuesday night, O’Donnell said, “When Donald trump is your boss, you don’t bring your kid into a business meeting with Donald Trump.”
But that’s what Musk did. And, during the press conference, X was seen mimicking his father at various points, picking his nose, and whispering to Trump, the Daily Beast reported.
Elon Musk carries his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders while speaking in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025.. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)X has made appearances at several Trump-related events since November, including at the president’s election night celebration and at his New Year’s Eve party, both Mar-a-Lago. Musk also carried X on his shoulders, wearing a suit and tie like his father, as the Tesla and SpaceX founder visited Capitol Hill in December. Musk, moreover, brought X with him to Trump’s Make America Great Again rally on the eve of his Jan. 20 inauguration.
It’s not known how much time X spends with his mother. His parents’ relationship ended in a bitter custody battle, with Grimes alleging in November that Musk kept her “babies” from her for months and refused to cooperatively co-parent their children.
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 05: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrives on Capitol Hill with his son on December 05, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)Grimes went on X to explain that Musk was “the love of my life” but had become “unrecognizable” to her — and not just because he became Trump’s leading cheerleader in the final months of his presidential campaign. She said she “spent a year locked in battle in a state with terrible mothers rights.” She presumably was referring to Texas, where Musk now lives and operates SpaceX, Tesla and his other companies.
Grimes said she only had “a fraction of his resources” to fight for access to her children, while her Instagram posts and modeling were “used as reasons I shouldn’t have my kids.” In another post, Grimes wrote that she was “going bankrupt” from the custody suit. “I just slept and cried every minute I wasn’t explicitly fighting for my kids during that year,” she said.
Grimes teased that she could say a lot more, but said she’s limited in what she discloses publicly. She said that most of her experiences in recent years “should remain behind closed doors.”
But Grimes has since said more, especially after Trump gave her ex-partner enormous federal government power. In yet another X response to someone’s post, the musician addressed concerns that Musk gave a Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute at Trump’s inaugural parade, saying: “I’m happy to denounce Nazi-ism — and the far alt right.”
But she also acknowledged that felt she had to be diplomatic in what she said about Musk because she felt “in over my head.”
Later in the month, Grimes implied that her ex-boyfriend and others in the Trump administration were acting like “power-hungry warlords” and explained that she felt deceived by the “anti-woke” forces that helped propel her former partner to the center of the U.S. government alongside Trump, the Daily Beast reported.
“I feel like I was tricked by (people) pretending to be into critical thought and consequentialism who are acting like power hungry warlords now and … cruelly enjoying the panic and suffering that obviously creates and it’s disturbing,“ she wrote, according to the Daily Beast.
In the Oval Office Tuesday, Musk addressed what Grimes had called people’s “panic and suffering,” resulting from his department going agency by agency, seeking to slash workforces and programs, like those at the U.S. Agency for International Development or the Education Department. With little X by his side, Musk declared, “The people voted for major government reform and that’s what the people are going to get.”
He and Trump also claimed, without providing evidence, to have uncovered billions of dollars of government waste and fraud, MSNBC host O’Donnell said, the Daily Beast reported. In terms of Musk’s “power play” in the Oval Office, O’Donnell also said Musk shirked the standard White House dress code by showing up wearing a T-shirt, instead of a suit a tie. He also stood over Trump, spoke more than the president, interrupted him from time to time and, of course, brought his son.
“He violated the rule of business meetings in a lot of places, by bringing one of his 11 children,” O’Donnell said. “It was like bringing the dog to the home of a person who hates dogs, and we know Donald Trump hates dogs.”
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