You could call it a special relationship. No, not the one between Donald Trump and Elon Musk – although that is interesting in all sorts of ways – but that between Musk and his son X, who is four years old.
Young x, full name x æ a-xii, was brought to the Oval Office by his proud father this week.
Introduced by President Trump as a 'High IQ individual', Fortunately, X proved a normal four-year-old, without outer signs of genius.
He said to the president: “Pardon, but I have to pee,” and added, while Trump continued with important state announcements, “I want you to silence your mouth.”
He also picked his nose and then wiped his finger on the invaluably determined desk – all while wore a thick golden neck chain and a long camel jacket, such as a mini -mafioso.
Musk's officially sanctioned biographer, Walter Isaacson, says that X, one of the 12 children of the Uber Tech Guru, has long been a non-native part of Musk's Entourage.
'X had an alien sweetness that soothed and delighted Musk that craves his presence. He took X everywhere, “Isaacson wrote when X was a baby.
As the boy has grown, that close bond is only deepened. Musk, 53, is convinced that the child is a genius and says that his first words were 'car, rocket and dad'.
X Drive on the shoulders of his father Elon Musk in the Oval Office in the White House
The technical billionaire is accompanied by his eldest son in countless meetings
X was sitting on his father's lap when he was named person of the year by Time Magazine in 2021, after he had flown to New York with his father on his private jet. He went to countless meetings and so much rocket launches that musk jokes that he can only count back.
He was there when Musk met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in September 2023 and in April 2024, X went on a trip to New York with his father to attend a documentary display.
The child, then three, attended a late-night after-party in the Lobster Club, where guests took cocktails and sushi ate while he walked around the restaurant in a Tesla T-shirt.
Towards the end of last year, X lived with his father in a house on the Mar-A-Lago estate in the run-up to the inauguration of Trump.
Since then, according to the wishes of Musk, the little boy has also become part of the court of Trump.
So much was lively illustrated by a Trump post in December on Truth Social, his social media site, which was intended as a private communication with Musk. It ran: 'Where are you? When do you come to the “Center of the Universe” Mar-A-Lago. Bill Gates asked to come tonight. We miss you and X! New Year's Eve will be great !!! Djt. '
However, the story of the back to this relationship is both fascinating and disturbing. Because X is one of the three children born of Musk and Canadian singer Grimes. Real name Claire Elise Boucher, she is the 36-year-old daughter of a criminal officer and banker.
The two younger children seem to be largely in her custody after an unpleasant legal battle – while Musk was apparently not willing to give up X and was accused of keeping him away from his mother and her family, a statement that he was not on responded.
But the distance between mother and son was clear when Grimes wrote on social media after the visit of her son to the Oval Office: “He should not be in public. I have not seen this, thanks for warning me. But I'm glad he was polite. Sigh. “
X and his father Elon with President Trump during an executive order in the Oval Office
Musk with Grimes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The couple has three children, although the two younger children seem to be in her detention, Musk is accused of loving X of his mother
There are indeed signs of serious conflict between the parents of X, although legal archives have been sealed for the well -being of the children. There are also several reports that suggest that Musk has been a usually absent father for his other children.
“He is not a loving, cuddly father, but he craves the presence of his children,” said Isaacson. “He told me that he is never more sad than when his children don't want to hang around him.”
The death of his son Nevada, by the first wife Justine Wilson, of the sudden childhood syndrome in 2002, deeply injured him, just like the decision of his second child, that Xavier was born but was transferred to Vivian, to defeat him at the change from 18.
Vivian has since said about her father: 'He was cold, quickly too furious … Indifferent and narcissistic … He doesn't know what I was like as a child because he was just not there, and in the small time he was, me Was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness. '
Grimes was the woman who illuminated the heartache of Musk after a 'poisonous' on/off relationship with Johnny Depp's ex Amber.
X (it was also Grimes who arrived the name Koos) arrived in 2020. At the time, Grimes called her beloved 'a super -interested person'.
But this year there were inkings of Musk's radical transformation, because he explained 'pronouns' and said 'cis', which means that someone whose gender identity corresponds to the gender that they were assigned at birth was a 'slur'.
Grimes, shocked, wrote: 'I can't support hatred. Please stop this. I know this is not your heart. '
But that was it. Musk began to embrace right -wing views and accused more children by a colleague, without the knowledge of Grimes. Shivon Zilis, a director of operations at Musk's Neuralink Project, even had twins with him through surrogacy in November 2021, a month before his daughter with Grimes, Exa Dark Siderael, was also born – also through surrogacy.
With a lack of feeling that you might judge terrible, he said on Twitter: 'Do my best to help the lower population crisis. A collapsing birth rate is by far the greatest danger that civilization is confronted. '
At this point, Grimes and Musk had separated, but the relationship remained 'fluent'. During a free period in April 2022, Grimes submitted a petition to 'determine the parental relationship' with Musk.
In another interview that year, she noticed that Musk was very close to X. She said, “I think E really sees him as a protector and brings him to everything.”
They eventually split within a few weeks after the birth of their third child, Techno Mechanician – nicknamed Tau – in 2022.
Musk then sued Grimes to 'establish a parent-child relationship' with the three children after he heard that the youngest two would not return to his house in Texas and that Grimes kept them in California. He held X.
Grimes Counter-Sued Musk in San Francisco, who requires primary physical custody of all three children. Shortly thereafter, Grimes publicly argued for parental access to X after seeing a photo of Musk with Zilis and their two children. Apparently she had only learned from the birth of those children in a report on the American news site Business Insider.
“Tell Elon to show me my son or (please) respond to my lawyer,” Grimes wrote on social site X, formerly Twitter, who renamed Musk after he bought it in 2022.
But son X stayed with his father. Indeed, when President Erdogan asked, “Where is his mother?” Musk replied: 'She is back in California. I usually take care of him. '
Musk with his three children who leave Blair House after a meeting. The founder of Tesla 'demands' the presence of his children, said Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson
Musk's son X shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi while he met him with his father in Washington
During a hearing of August 2024 to determine custody, Musk said that the children settled in Austin, Texas and went to school.
Grimes spoke about the legal battle in a post on X and said that she had not had time to work on creative projects because 'the threat to lose your children while you are going to fight bankrupt for them is not very conducive to creative thoughts. I just slept and cried every minute that I did not explicitly fought for my children in that year, “she wrote.
She added: 'A year locked up in the battle in a state with terrible mother's rights with my Instagram reports and modeling as reasons I should not have and fight and detach the love of my life because he is for I have become unrecognizable, with a fraction of his resources (or IQ/strategy experience), I saw none of my babies for 5 months all the time. '
Based on the Oval Office outing of X on Wednesday, she will see more of Elons Prinseling in the coming months – may not be personally.
Additional report: Barbara McMahon
