Maye Musk’s Secrets to Having (and Affording) More Babies
Mother Musk offers up some tone deaf advice as she echoes her billionaire son’s hysteria on the likelihood of the U.S. population collapsing.
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Maye Musk proved the bad apple doesn’t fall far from the tree with some tone-deaf advice on how Americans can afford to have more children during a Dec. 15 appearance on Fox and Friends.
“When I had my children, we were in a two-bedroom small apartment overlooking a garage,” Musk told Rachel Campos-Duffy, the wife of transportation secretary nominee Sean Duffy. Musk added, “Then the next year, I had the second child, (and) we had an apartment with a view. Then by the third child we could get a two-bedroom house. As you move on, you start doing better and better.”
In addition to throwing her support behind her billionaire son Elon’s government pet project DOGE, Mother Musk echoed her son’s hysteria over the likelihood of the U.S. population collapsing because more people aren’t having children.
“You don’t have to go to the movies. You don’t have to go out for dinner. You can just spend time with the most wonderful gifts you can ever have,” said Musk. “A child.”
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The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy walked away with the same take.
“So she’s saying that you should suffer and that miraculously over the course of having multiple children, you’ll make more money,” said Moodie.
“That’s what I took from it,” added Levy.
“Oh, OK… So she is a magician as well as a moron. Is that what she’s offering?” added Moodie.
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