These days, Elon Musk has a whole line of people ready to crucify him for anything and everything, but perhaps no critic is as vocal as his transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson.
Maybe he should rethink making Nazi salutes and hiring children to dig into people’s Social Security Numbers and private lives, but he isn’t likely to slow it down anytime soon, even with people dropping their Teslas.
After saying she wanted to utilize the platform Twitch in a recent interview withTeen Vogue, Wilson quickly doubled down on her critiques of the world’s richest man and took all of that fire to the platform.
Appearing on left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker’s YouTube livestream, the 20-year-old transgender activist wasted no time sharpening her claws. “He was not a liberal darling,” Wilson said, pushing back on narratives that Musk’s descent into far-right ideology is some kind of new development. “I f**king know him. He was never on the left. It was a marketing scheme.”
She didn’t stop there. While Musk is often touted as a brilliant innovator behind Tesla and SpaceX, Wilson was quick to pop that bubble. “He doesn’t engineer anything,” she said. “It turns out if you lie, and people believe it, people will think you’re smart or God. I f**king hate that.”
Even Tesla, isn’t safe. “It’s not a car company. It’s a Ponzi scheme,” she said, citing the company’s inflated P/E ratio. As for his plans to colonize Mars? “It’s not happening, people… It’s a marketing scheme that everyone somehow fell for despite being debunked by a f**king Google search.”
This is the first time she’s made a claim like this, and it’s unclear if that’s actually true, though the profitability of colonizing Mars has previously been discussed.
Still, Wilson’s takedowns are nothing if not unfiltered. “He was just yelling at employees in the car while [my siblings and I all] watched, horrified,” she said of Musk’s parenting style.
Last year, Musk and SpaceX were sued by eight former employees under allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation.
Critically, Wilson made it clear—again—that her identity is not the cause of Musk’s radicalization. “People think that we live in a novel and that [my transition] is some tragic character motivation. This is not a novel. I am not the reason,” she said. “I cannot take credit for that, unfortunately.”
If Musk hoped to silence his daughter, it’s safe to say the plan backfired. She’s not just reclaiming her voice—she’s using it to torch the empire that tried to define her.
Watch the full interview above. The time stamp starts with the above conversation.