Elon Musk took a dig at pop star Taylor Swift for saying that she would vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the US presidential election in November.
Tesla CEO said that “I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life”, a dig at the singer signing off her endorsement post with, “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady”.
“Fine Taylor… you win… I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life,” Musk tweeted.
The pop star’s endorsement of Harris came moments after the US Vice President faced off with her Republican rival Donald Trump in their first-ever presidential debate on Tuesday night.
In a post on Instagram, the singer told her 283 million followers that she was going to vote for Harris and her running mate Tim Walz in November’s election.
She said Harris “fights for the rights and causes. I believe (we) need a warrior to champion them”.
“I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos”.
The pop icon also posted a picture of herself carrying a cat and signed off the post with “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady”.
This was an apparent dig at the “childless cat ladies” remark made by JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, against Harris.
In a 2021 Fox News interview, Vance had said that the US was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives and choices, and want to make the rest of the country miserable too”.
“Look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. How does it make any sense we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
