One viral tweet on Musk’s social media site X suggested the explanation for little X’s statements.
The tweet, which has 44,000 likes as of writing, contains a short video of the four-year-old purportedly saying to Trump, “I want you to s.h.u.s.h your mouth.”
An X user quoted the video and suggested: “I think the right way to read this kind of behaviour is this is what he heard from his dad.”
This is definitely a bold claim given that Trump and Musk are close friends, but X user @isaiah_bb appears to have created a conversation in which dozens of other social media users agreed with him.
“Kids are innocent, they mostly pick up the things which are spoken in their presence,” one person responded. “Definitely he heard someone saying that.”
Another user wrote: “You learn from your environment.”
While someone else said: “Kids are parrots. They will repeat the things they hear.”
Other commenters suggested that Lil X was speaking to a member of the press in the Oval Room rather than the president.
“I don’t think he was even talking to Trump. He was talking to whoever was on his left side,” a spectator suggested.
Grimes, real name Claire Boucher, has since spoken out following her son’s appearance in the Oval Office, which became a hot subject online.
She posted a message on Musk’s platform X about the situation.
In response to another user, she wrote, “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.”
