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Musk’s ex, mother of 4-yr-old Lil X, not cool with Elon bringing child to the Oval Office for presser

February 12, 2025 | | Print Article

Custodial concerns had Elon Musk’s ex sounding off when a White House trip included their eldest child as she shared her own thoughts on “decorum.”

Throughout his involvement with the campaign, transition, and administration of President Donald Trump, the world’s richest man has routinely been spotted traveling with one of his younger children, four-year-old X Æ A-Xii, also referred to as Lil X. This included an exchange with the press from the Oval Office Tuesday that found the boy’s mother, musician Grimes, lamenting, “He should not be in public like this.”

While fielding questions on the Department of Government Efficiency adorned with a “Dark MAGA” hat, Musk’s son alternated from standing in front of his father, to leaning up against the Resolute Desk and resting on the SpaceX founder’s shoulders.

On the social media platform X, someone reacted to an unrelated post to comment to the boy’s mother, born Claire Boucher, how “Lil X was very polite today! You raised him well. He was so cute when he told DJT ‘please forgive me, I need to pee’.”

A quick response from Grimes countered, “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank [you] for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.”

The pair are engaged in a custody dispute over the three children they share including daughter Exa Dark Sideræl and youngest son Techno Mechanicus, a reality that she reflected on when one user suggested the musician was closing her “eyes to evil.”

In response, Grimes asked, “Why do [you] think I close my eyes to evil? I simply have no desire to engage in online discourse that will likely lead to court and harm to the stability of my children’s lives. I will not stoke fear and outrage without constructive action behind my words. Nor will I perform for people to the detriment of my children.”

“It’s the less romantic path, but slow methodic legal work is how I choose to make the world better,” she went on. “However, I am taking note of the fear and distress. I understand I have a responsibility in some sense to answer to it. [A]nd I am building what I think is a very good idea. I need to get a bit further along in this quest before we have something legit to show people. I also have a significantly spicier artistic response to y’all and to them, but it will come when it is finished. Working hastily.”

The Canadian-born mother of three also had some thoughts on the current state of politics as she recently suggested, “I think so much of what’s been happening over the last decade is simply that the art of diplomacy, oration, and generally competent leadership has been lost.”

“The purpose of politics is to find solutions when the population can’t agree — but both sides have stoke hysteria rather than provide mature competent leadership,” she went on, harkening back to previous administrations where “there was a sense of decorum” from both sides of the political aisle.

Grimes furthered that sentiment on Tuesday stating, “I am asking you and everyone else to understand that our government was set up for coalitions and middle-ground decisions. I am asking this person, and you — to stop calling each other names. Decorum is an incredibly important part of reality, long forgotten in America.”

Prior to his relationship with the musician, Musk and his first wife Justine Wilson had six children together, including their first son, Nevada, who tragically died at 10 weeks old from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in 2002. They went on to have twins Xavier and Griffin as well as triplets Damian, Kai, and Saxon.

Musk also fathered three children with Neuralink director Shivon Zilis, twins Strider and Azure, and an as yet publicly unnamed child.

Along with opining on bills dying in Congress “because of infighting” rooted in personal disputes instead of aiming to fulfill responsibilities, Grimes also noted in recent days that she was keeping to “neutral general statements” since “I just don’t wanna be deported haha — like literally.”

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