Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a pot shot at pop star Taylor Swift for saying that she would vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the US presidential election in November. The tech billionaire said that "I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life", a dig at the singer signing off her endorsement post with, “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady".
"Fine Taylor... you win... I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life," Musk tweeted.
The pop star's endorsement of Harris came moments after the US Vice President faced off with her Republican rival Donald Trump in their first-ever presidential debate on Tuesday night.
In a post on Instagram, the singer told her 283 million followers that she was going to vote for Harris and her running mate Tim Walz in November's election.
She said Harris "fights for the rights and causes. I believe (we) need a warrior to champion them".
"I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos".
The pop icon also posted a picture of herself carrying a cat and signed off the post with “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady".
This was an apparent dig at the "childless cat ladies" remark made by JD Vance, Trump's running mate, against Harris.
This is not the first time that the Tesla CEO has made sexist remarks.
Late last year, Musk mocked socialite and entrepreneur Paris Hilton after she pulled off “Be an Icon” kitchenware ads from X following the tech billionaire's backing of a post that contained anti-Semitic content.
“The ad campaign wasn’t super convincing tbh. I don’t think Paris cooks a lot," he tweeted.
Other major companies, including Disney, IBM, Paramount, and NBCUniversal, also followed suit and pulled off their ads from the microblogging site.
Musk did apologise for insensitive content on X, but also asked advertisers to "go f**k yourself".
Earlier this month, he promoted a post on X that claimed only high-status males should be decision makers.
