Most people know Elon Musk as the most wealthy man in the world, but Musk’s mother certainly isn’t a fan of the term.
Last year in December, Maye Musk went on Fox Business and discussed the rhetoric around her son.
It was clear Maye Musk sees her son in quite the positive light, as she took issue with the suggestion people were fascinated about the billionaire because of his money.
Speaking to Fox’s Stuart Varney, she said: “I don’t like the word wealthy or billionaire or things like that.
“Because I think its degrading. I think he is the genius of the world and people are loving him for that.”
Not really sure being called the richest person on the planet and being that wealthy is degrading, but sure, okay…
Maye Musk insisted people weren’t interested in her son because he was wealthy (Fox Business)
She continued: “When they see me, they go crazy, because I’m his mother but they love him because of what he does, and they respect him, and I am very proud of him.”
The Fox News host questioned what it must be like for Maye as the mother of Elon, who has gone from one venture to the next over the last few decades.
She answered: “Every time I am surprised and every time I say don’t take on something else and he doesn’t listen to me and then he makes a big change.
“With this neurolink people are saying ‘why is he [doing it], I don’t want something in my head’ and I say well you are not paralyzed or you aren’t blind.
“If you are blind and you don’t want to see then you can argue the point, you don’t have to have a chip in your head.”
Unfortunately for Maye Musk, people on social media didn’t really side with her.
The video has recently started circulating on Twitter and people just aren’t getting onboard her Elon hype train.
One user wrote: “This is nauseating.
“People are interested in Elon because he is unfathomably rich & now because he’s jumped into bed with Trump.
“He’s not the first person to send a rocket to space, he’s not the first person to invent a car, or a robot.
People on social media just didn’t agree with Maye Musk (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
“His mom has stars in her eyes, understandably.”
Another said: “Genius of the World. Next it will be the Emperor of the World. Musk is good at raiding companies. That’s about it.”
A third added: “He doesn’t design the rockets, the engines, he doesn’t do any calculations of any kind. He doesn’t program the systems, he doesn’t do market research, he has a lot of money to pay a lot of people to do that job. That doesn’t make him a genius.”
Another ruthlessly added: “Wealthy is all he is. He does not have a single redeeming characteristic. Sadly he thinks his money can buy him everything he wants. But it cant buy him grace, humanity, love or diminish his unlikeability.”
Ouch. Well, in the meantime, Musk’s mother will just have to settle for people calling him the most wealthy man in the world… how terrible.
