Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, has taken a shot at New York City for its homelessness and trash-strewn streets.
The 76-year-old model posted photos on her X account of litter and what appears to be a person wrapped in a blanket laying on the sidewalk.
‘Early morning walk in downtown New York. Keeping my dog on a tight leash,’ she wrote in the post. ‘It didn’t used to be this way. It started the last two years. Why?
The number of homeless on the streets of the Big Apple rose by the highest number in more than a decade, according to the annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate survey conducted in January.
Maye Musk took a shot at New York City for its homelessness and trash-strewn streets
The rise comes as the administration of Mayor Eric Adams pursues aggressive measures to tackle the problem, including enforcement, sweeps, and outreach initiatives.
Maye’s criticism was met with backlash, as many pointed out that New York has always been like this.
‘New York has always had homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks, what planet have you been on?’ one X user wrote in response to the post.
Another sarcastically added: ‘That’s a human being in need on the ground, sorry for the inconvenience.’
The number of homeless on the streets of the Big Apple rose by the highest number in more than a decade
‘How dare the homeless intrude on the rich ladies walk,’ another commenter wrote.
In 2022, Maye criticized the New York Times for an article that said her son had ‘white privilege’ growing up in apartheid-era South Africa and was ‘detached from apartheid’s atrocities.’
In promoting the article on Twitter (now X), the Times wrote: ‘Elon Musk grew up in elite white communities in South Africa, detached from apartheid’s atrocities and surrounded by anti-Black propaganda.
The 76-year-old model posted photos on her X account of litter and what appears to be a person wrapped in a blanket laying on the sidewalk
In 2022, Maye criticized the New York Times for an article that said her son had ‘white privilege’ growing up in apartheid-era South Africa and was ‘detached from apartheid’s atrocities’
‘He sees his takeover of Twitter as a free speech win but in his youth did not suffer the effects of misinformation,’ The Times added, referencing Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the social-media platform.
Maye snapped back at the paper, stating: ‘In South Africa, if you publicly opposed apartheid, you went to jail. In Russia, if you publicly oppose the war, you go to jail. @nytimes, are you going to blame 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren for decisions made by governments?’
In the article, the Times interviewed relatives and classmates of the Tesla founder, revealing that the communities he grew up in – Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban – were shrouded in misinformation that influenced its residents.