Elon Musk’s mom has shared a truly bizarre take on a Wall Street Journal report that claimed Tesla was actively seeking to replace him as CEO.
The Murdoch family-owned publication reported Wednesday that Tesla higher-ups were concerned about faltering sales and the amount of time Musk was spending with his federal cost-cutting task force, DOGE. So much so, in fact, that the board had started looking for replacements.
Billionaire Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, lambasted a group of Wall Street Journal reporters as “dishonest” over an article on her son.
Elon Musk with mom Maye Musk (Screengrab)
In a disgustingly prejudiced tweet, the 77-year-old Canadian dietician tagged the reporters who wrote the article. “The @WSJ dishonest article about @elonmusk and @Tesla was written by three women,” Maye wrote, tagging an account that takes delight in “find[ing] ret*rds and [resharing] their posts.”
Musk’s mother was responding to a user’s conjecture regarding the author’s intentions, which suggested that Tesla is making efforts to replace him as CEO.
The @WSJ dishonest article about @elonmusk and @Tesla was written by three women: @EmilyGlazer @DanaMattioli Becky Peterson 🧐 @IfindRetards https://t.co/xFIbpPnBV8
— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) May 1, 2025
“It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the @WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors!” Musk stated in one of three tweets.
“WSJ is a discredit to journalism,” he wrote, clarifying that, “It’s not that all @WSJ stories are fake.”
Disparaging the Journal over a report ‘The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers’, the SpaceX CEO called it “worse than TMZ.”
The billionaire commented, “TMZ >> WSJ,” just over two weeks ago, following the publication of a comprehensive investigation by the Murdoch-owned newspaper that claimed Musk has been covertly attempting to produce a “legion” of 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren.
Musk is father to at least 14 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren with four women. He and his first wife Justine Wilson shared six 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren. He has 3 kids with his ex-girlfriend Grimes and four with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, and one more with Ashley St. Clair.
In January, Musk dubbed the Journal “trash” following a second piece with respect to his suspected consumption of drugs and the worries it was causing the directors of Tesla. However, Musk refused to to have any drug issue.
His cronies responded with demands for the Journal to apologize and retract their story. A spokesperson, however, told the Daily Beast they stand by their reporting.
@IfindR—-s is a profile that invokes MAGA’s new favorite slur to brandish people with the r-word if they are deemed to be behaving out of step with popular opinion. Conservatives often tag the profile under posts from liberals.
Musk, pictured at a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30, slammed the Journal story on X. / Andrew Harnik / Getty Images
Both Elon Musk and a Tesla spokesperson said the story was false and that the Journal was made aware of that pre-publication.
However, a spokesperson for the paper told the Daily Beast on Thursday that this was not the case. “Tesla was given the opportunity to provide a statement before publication, which they did not do,” they said.