Elon Musk's Latest Kamala Harris Criticism Is A Truly Demented Distortion Of Her Words

Elon Musk accused Vice President Kamala Harris of being an “extinctionist” in a melodramatic post on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday night.

Cosigning conservative claims that the left is pushing for fewer people to have kids, Musk offered an extreme interpretation of some of the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate’s comments about families.

“Shamala is an extinctionist,” he replied in regard to a post by former President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. “The natural extension of her philosophy would be a de facto holocaust for all of humanity!”

In his own post, Donald Trump Jr. shared a clip of Harris speaking at Pennsylvania’s Reading Area Community College last year, which he paired with a baseless claim she was “suggesting that young people should not have children due to climate change.”

Donald Trump Jr.’s assertion was a serious distortion of the former California senator’s comments, in which she talked about her empathy for young people who feel anxious about starting families during such an unstable time in the world.

Focusing on the threat of climate change in her speech, Harris told the crowd that she understood why many were wary about their futures and hesitant to have children.

“Because young people said, ‘We’re not leaving it to other people to decide how we’re dealing with the climate crisis’ — you know, I’ve heard young leaders talk with me about a term they’ve coined called ‘climate anxiety,’” she said.

Harris went on, “Which is fear of — of the future and the unknown of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children, whether it makes sense for you to think about aspiring to buy a home … because what will this climate be?”

While the VP’s remarks