Grimes is having one of those “Wait, what?!” moments after discovering—through the fine journalistic institution known as the internet—that her 4-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii (a name that still makes autocorrect cry), was casually attending a White House press conference with his father, Elon Musk.
The pint-sized VIP tagged along with his billionaire dad, who—when he’s not busy launching cars into space—apparently holds the incredibly serious-sounding title of Head of the President’s Department of Government Efficiency (which, let’s be honest, sounds made up, but sure, we’ll roll with it).
Grimes, who did not get the memo (or the tweet, apparently), had the same reaction as every mom who finds out their kid was taken somewhere unexpected: mild panic, followed by deep sighing.
“He should not be in public like this,” she wrote on X (the app, not the child—though at this point, who even knows). “I did not see this, thank (you) for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.”
Translation: “Whew, at least my toddler didn’t go full rockstar mode and start flipping off reporters.”
In a later interview with Time, Grimes clarified that she wasn’t exactly “slamming” Elon (as headlines suggested), but more like doing the exhausted co-parent eye-roll. “It was like, ‘Grimes slams,’ ‘Grimes speaks out.’ It’s like, OK, it was a reply.”
However, she did have one major request: “I would really like people to stop posting images of my kid everywhere. I think fame is something you should consent to.”
A valid point, considering little X is out here minding his business, probably just trying to figure out how juice boxes work, while the world debates his unexpected political debut.
For those keeping track of Musk’s ever-growing family tree, he and Grimes—who split in 2022—share three children: X Æ A-Xii (4), Exa Dark Sideræl (3), and Techno Mechanicus (2) (again, autocorrect is in tears).
And if that wasn’t enough, Musk is currently being sued for sole custody of his 13th child. Yep, thirteenth. At this rate, he might actually build his own colony on Mars just for his kids.
