Grimes denounced Nazism after her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk hit back at the hate he received for his stiff-armed gesture at President Trump’s inaugural parade Monday.
The singer wrote on X Tuesday that she is “happy to denounce Nazi-ism — and the far alt right.”
She asked her followers, “Would that help clear things up? I’ve just gotten out of breakfast and have to catch a flight, and am still debating how to approach things diplomatically because I feel in over my head. But if there’s concern about that, I am happy to set the record strait [sic] in a meaningful way.”
Grimes, 36, clarified that if she did not respond to questions “for another five hours,” it was because she was in the air without WiFi.
The songwriter, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, subsequently hit back at a fan who threatened to cover up their tattoo of her.
Grimes began her clapback by acknowledging she “deeply respect[ed]” the social media user’s concern.
However, the Canadian star wrote, “It is unhealthy that people are this upset when I have not even been online yet today and am only just learning about this controversy now. I don’t know what happened and I will not make a rash statement — I am not a citizen of this country.
“I need to go to bed now, I will research the state of affairs tomorrow but until I do I’m not going to say something that will create an international scandal. It’s absurd that someone can be this cancelled for something their ex did before they even heard it happened.”
Grimes — who dated Musk, 53, on and off from 2018 to 2022 — clarified, “I am not him. I will not make a statement every time he does something. I can only send love back into a world that is hurting.”
She added, “To be clear i could go talk s–t and be on a bunch of magazine covers and be a feminist hero and get clout — but it would serve no purpose.”
Instead, the “Oblivion” singer is “choosing [her] children’s wellbeing.”
Grimes shares three children with Musk: X AE AXII, 4, Exa, 3, and Techno, 1.
“I promise you it doesn’t feel good to be hated all the time for things I don’t even know about, cannot predict and cannot control,” she concluded. “But I also chose this path, I accept it. I make the best of it, and I simply wish happiness and health to all. Godspeed.”
Musk, who has welcomed nine other children with Justine Wilson and Shivon Zilis, also hit back via X Tuesday after raising eyebrows with his gesture onstage at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC.
“Frankly, they need better dirty tricks,” the tech CEO wrote of his critics. “The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”
Grimes previously made it clear that she disagreed with Musk when he claimed his transgender daughter, Vivian, had been “killed by the woke-mind virus.”
In July 2024, she wrote on X, “I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian.”
Grimes and Musk are currently engaged in a contentious custody battle over their little ones.
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