A teenager has responded to Elon Musk commenting on her ‘level of hotness’, after he said she was an eight or above.
Elon Musk is well known for his bizarre social media usage at this point, with the owner of X regularly wading into debates that you’d expect the richest man in the world not to have time for.
Whether it be making weird comments about Stranger Things or commenting on Sydney Sweeney's boobs, Musk continues to crop up in places on social media you wouldn’t expect him to - except this time it was in the replies of a post to discuss the hotness of a 19-year-old.
The 54-year-old father of 14+ kids replied to a post discussing Audrey Morris, a teenage student from LA who faced deportation from Denmark.
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Accompanied by a laughing emoji, Musk replied to a post about it saying: “8 or above level hotness should get an exemption.”
Whilst this might imply Musk was simply ‘joking’, it’s not surprising that Morris found being hit on by the DOGE founder in front of his 230,000,000 X followers a bit uncomfortable.
She said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Beast: “Yeah, it’s definitely crazy.
“I wasn’t surprised [by Musk’s tweet], I guess you could say, because from the beginning, the second that my case was kind of made public, it has been about appearances and because, ‘oh, she’s blonde and she’s white!’
“So, the thing he said in of itself wasn’t shocking to me, but coming from him, yes, it was definitely...I was floored.”
She went on to add: “It would’ve been really cool if he commented something like, ‘Oh wow, look how many academic things she’s reached,’ or whatever.
“That would’ve been great. It could have been so helpful.”
Critics of Musk have called him ‘weird’ and ‘creepy’ for the tweet and whilst she wasn’t a fan of it, she saw at least one benefit in it.
She said: “If this just at least brings it to the attention of anyone who cares, then I’m fine with being embarrassed a little bit. That’s okay.”
Morris’s parents relocated from the US to Denmark in 2015, and she has lived in Aarhus since she was nine.
She recently moved into the dorms of her high school in Viborg and was set to be deported because she was in the country as an ‘accompanying child’, and was no longer going to be sharing her address with her mother.
Despite facing deportation, the issue was resolved, after she was granted a residency permit for ten years.
She was denied citizenship even though it was granted to her mother, who is American, and her younger brother.
Speaking about the experience, she said: “Even in a tightly regulated system, there just has to be room for real people and real lives and not just paperwork, because a technicality literally changed my entire life.”
Musk, meanwhile, deleted the tweet and has yet to address it.
Topics: Elon Musk, Social Media, Twitter, Celebrity, US News
Michael Slavin