(The Hill) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to give pop superstar Taylor Swift a child, saying his social media post was “rotten and creepy.”
Following the debate last week between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, Swift shared on Instagram her endorsement of the Democratic nominee in the 2024 election.
Musk, who is backing Trump in the 2024 White House race, reacted to the endorsement on his social media platform X, writing “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.”
Clinton, the former 2016 Democratic nominee, in response, said that Musk’s post was “another way of saying rape.”
“I can’t understand why he says what he says,” Clinton said during her appearance on Kara Swisher’s podcast “On with Kara Swisher.” “It just is beyond my imagination.”
Clinton said that a subset of Trump’s supporters, within the Make America Great Again movement, are irritated by Swift’s personal success.
“When I see Trump, or I see him, this whole cast of MAGA characters, and especially the so-called masters of the universe in the technology world, misogyny is such a part of their worldview, and they gravitate toward toughness and brutality and machoism,” Clinton said.
“And you know, here’s Taylor Swift, a self-made billionaire who brings joy to people and who imparts life lessons, particularly to girls and women, they can’t stand it,” she added.
The former Democratic presidential candidate stated that Swift’s endorsement of Harris “was really going to trigger Trump.”
“If it had happened before the debate it would have overpowered the debate,” she said during her appearance on the podcast. “The fact that it happened right after the debate and just added to Kamala’s momentum must have just set them all off.”
Trump shared his thoughts on Swift over the weekend, writing Sunday on TruthSocial “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”
Clinton was also asked Monday about Musk’s now-deleted post that “no one is even trying” to assassinate Harris, shortly following another apparent assassination attempt on Trump’s life.
“Let’s just all just promise ourselves that we can have significant political differences about who we want to be our next president, about the policies that we think will help our country and the world, and condemn that kind of rhetoric,” Clinton told Katie Couric on Monday. “It has absolutely no place.”
