The harpies that co-host ABC’s “The View,” decided that lower than pond scum was not quite low enough, so they issued some commentary where they spent a whole segment whining and boo-hooing about billionaire SpaceX CEO and owner of social media platform X, also taking an opportunity to mock his four-year-old son over his highly unusual name, X Æ A-XII.
Okay, look. I’ll be the first to admit that the name is very, very strange. Musk himself is a bit of an odd duck, but a good man nonetheless. Most of his quirks are likely due to autism, which many people around the world have, so it shouldn’t be shocking.
All of the harpies were screeching in response to a televised briefing that took place in the Oval Office on Tuesday night where Musk described some of the horrendous waste spending he and his agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have uncovered.
President Donald Trump was sitting behind the resolute desk during the briefing while Musk stood next to him. His son, “Lil X,” he affectionately calls him, was in the room as well, which one particularly nasty harpie, Whoopie Goldberg, noticed right off the bat.
ABC News hosts Whoopi Goldberg (a fake name) and Joy Behar mock and bully Elon Musk's 4-year-old son over his name:
WHOOPI: Yeah, so yesterday Elon Musk took his son X to a press conference —
JOY: X?
WHOOPI: I did not name the child.
JOY: That's the kid's name?
WHOOPI: And I… pic.twitter.com/h029AYdzFQ— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 12, 2025
“Yeah, so yesterday Elon Musk took his son X to a press conference —” Goldberg said, kicking things off.
“X?” cohost Joy Behar asked her fellow harpie.
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Goldberg shook her head and, said, “I did not name the child.” Behar then asked a second time, “That’s the kid’s name?”
“And I don’t want to hear any more mess about our names. Okay?” Goldberg — whose actual name is Caryn Elaine Johnson — wisecracked. “Anyhoo, he took little X —”
“And little Instagram,” Behar said, making a very lame attempt at humor. Her cohost Sara Hines then brilliantly pointed out that Musk does not own Instagram. Here you have a couple of chicks with a collective IQ lower than Lil X’s age poking fun at not only the child, but his literal rocket scientist father.
“He doesn’t own Instagram, he just took Lil X with him,” Goldberg remarked. “To a press conference in the Oval Office to defend himself against critics who say he should not have the power to gut the federal agency.”
The Daily Wire pointed out that not everybody was taking mean-spirited jabs at Musk and his young son. In fact, Star Trek actor William Shatner cracked a joke, but it was all in good fun.
“Is that one of your young engineers that work for DOGE?” Shatner asked in his post. “I did hear that you hire young but this is something else! #adorable.”
Is that one of your young engineers that work for DOGE? I did hear that you hire young but this is something else! 😉 #adorable https://t.co/PpBk8b7eVf
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) February 12, 2025
Will Cain, host over at Fox News, said, “Personally I think we should trust a guy to find waste and fraud who doesn’t even spend on a babysitter.” Excellent point. Excellent, indeed.
Personally I think we should trust a guy to find waste and fraud who doesn’t even spend on a babysitter. @elonmusk
— Will Cain (@willcain) February 11, 2025