It was a good news/bad news day for Grimes on Tuesday (Feb. 11) when the “Delete Forever” singer learned that her ex Elon Musk had taken the couple’s first-born son to a White House briefing. In response to a commenter who noted that four-year-old “Lil X” (born X Æ A-Xii) “was very polite today! You raised him well. He was so cute when he told DJT [Donald Trump] ‘please forgive me, I need to pee,’” Grimes criticized Musk for including their child in the photo-op.
Grimes did not find the seemingly uncleared appearance by her son quite so charming, responding, “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me.” The preschooler spent some of his time in the Oval Office on his father’s shoulders as Trump signed an executive order giving the Tesla boss’ controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) more power to continue its legally suspect slash-and-burn march through the federal beuracracy.
“But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh,” Grimes added of the little one who at one point was seen picking his nose just inches away from a seemingly irritated Trump. X, dressed in a suit and tie, also pulled faces and seemed to imitate his father’s gestures, at one point mussing Musk’s hair and grabbing his ears in boredom during the daytime White House appearance.
Grimes has three children with Musk — who has a total of 12 children from three different women — and has often been at odds with the world’s richest man over the rearing of their children and his often-controversial public statements. Last month, when Musk made what was widely interpreted as a pair of vigorous Nazi salutes during an inauguration event for Trump, Grimes quickly distanced herself from the billionaire who in late January told a crowd of supporters of the far-right Alternative For Germany party that, “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents,” in an apparent reference to Nazi Germany just two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that,” Musk added, praising the anti-immigration, anti-cultural integration party as the “best hope for Germany.”
At the time of the salutes, Grimes wrote, “it is unhealthy that people are this upset when I have not even been online yet today and am only just learning about this controversy now. I don’t know what happened and I will not make a rash statement – I am not a citizen of this country.” She later made it clear that she did not approve of the seemingly fascist gesture many took as a version of the “Sieg Heil” gesture associated with Holocaust mastermind Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.
“I am not him. I will not make a statement every time he does something. I can only send love back into a world that is hurting,” Grimes said. “To be clear i could go talk s–t and be on a bunch of magazine covers and be a feminist hero and get clout – but it would serve no purpose. I choose my children’s wellbeing. I promise you it doesn’t feel good to be hated all the time for things I don’t even know about, cannot predict and cannot control. But I also chose this path, I accept it. I make the best of it, and I simply wish happiness and health to all.”
Check out Grimes’ post below.
