Elon Musk Wants You To Have More Children, But There’s a Problem

How the Republican Party of family values fails from the top

John Polonis
The Political Prism
6 min readDec 2, 2024

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Elon Musk eating with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Elon Musk with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago — Source

Elon Musk spent this past Thanksgiving with Donald Trump. None of his 12 children appeared to be in attendance, and none of the three women who gave birth to those children appeared to be there either.

And it wasn’t just Thanksgiving that Musk spent with Trump. He’s practically been living with Trump at Mar-a-Lago since the election (without any of his kids), as illustrated in the featured image of this essay.

Despite Musk’s example of neglecting his children on the most important day of thanks and gratitude for family, he insists that people must have more children.

It’s one thing to advocate for more children, but quite another to do so while completely ignoring them. Anyone fortunate enough to be a parent can probably tell you — kids require attention. If I ignored my son for days on end and was a no-show on important holidays, at best he would forget me. At worst, he would despise me and it…

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