Elon Musk mocked Vice President Kamala Harris’ status as a Democratic presidential candidate in waiting by posting a video showing the former district attorney hosting a meeting and describing not only her preferred gender pronouns but also what she was wearing.
“I’m Kamala Harris; my pronouns are she and her, and I’m a woman sitting at the table in a blue suit,” Harris says while introducing a panel discussion held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in 2022.
“Imagine 4 years of this…” Musk joked as he posted the clip showing Harris chairing the meeting, which was a discussion about the effects abortion restrictions would have on the disabled community and was attended by a large number of visually impaired people.
Musk, 53, is famous for not spending much time on gender pronouns, telling X in July 2020: “Pronouns suck.” A few months later, he tweeted: “I fully support trans people, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare.”
Elon Musk, 53, mocked Vice President Kamala Harris’ attempt to help visually impaired viewers during a 2022 panel discussion
Musk’s tweet included the 2022 video
In another attack, he once wrote on X: ‘My pronouns are Prosecutor/Fauci.’
Among those who have criticized Musk for his attacks on pronouns is Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, who is considered a candidate to be Harris’ vice president.
The former astronaut told Musk not to “mock or promote hatred toward” members of the LGBTQ community.
“I totally disagree. Forcing others to use pronouns when they’re not asked and implicitly excluding those who don’t ask for them is not nice or kind to anyone,” Musk replied.
The Tesla founder has already declared his support for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, although even though that was in the imaginary race with President Joe Biden, Musk is unlikely to change his mind.
Before Biden’s surprise announcement on Sunday that he would not run, Musk tweeted about speaking to his “smartest friends” in San Francisco who were eager to vote for Trump and JD Vance in November.
“I believe in an America that maximizes individual liberty and merit. That used to be the Democratic Party, but now the pendulum has swung back to the Republican Party,” he wrote in a later post.
The vice president kicked off a roundtable discussion with disability advocates in 2022 by saying, ‘I’m Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, I’m a woman sitting at the table in a blue suit.’
On Sunday, before Biden’s announcement, Musk said many of his friends in tech were excited about the prospect of voting for Donald Trump.
Despite Musk’s tweet lacking context, Harris’s words in 2022 were criticized by The Atlantic Graeme Wood, who wrote: ‘Indeed, the entire introduction gives the unfortunate impression that Harris thinks blind people are not only visually impaired, but so uninformed about politics that they don’t know whether the vice president is a woman and whether she uses pronouns typical of her sex.’
Musk clashed with Harris earlier this month when he accused the former prosecutor of lying about Trump’s support for a national abortion ban.
“Donald Trump would ban abortion nationwide,” Harris wrote, adding: “President @JoeBiden and I will do everything in our power to stop him and restore women’s reproductive freedom.”
The SpaceX founder responded: “He clearly said he wouldn’t do it in the debate.”
In April, Trump declared that he believed abortion laws should be left to the states.
The Biden-Harris campaign then refused to budge.
“Elon Musk can Google it: Donald Trump wants to ban abortion nationwide, allow his allies to ban medication abortion and contraception, and use the power of government to harass and punish women,” spokesman James Singer said.
‘This election is a choice between codifying Roe and protecting women’s fundamental rights, and allowing extremist politicians to interfere in medical decisions and strip away freedoms.’