Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is about to star in an unprecedented IPO that could soon make him a trillionaire. But in recent months he has been increasingly active on another issue: mobilizing the white population to defend their race.
“White people are a minority that is rapidly becoming extinct,” Musk wrote in January, in a post on his social network X, which has accumulated more than 17 million views and 150,000 likes.
In a February post, with more than 365,000 likes, Musk declared that “in the West there has been relentless hatred and poisonous propaganda against any white, straight or male person for the last decade or more,” and added: “Enough of the emotional manipulations. Enough is enough!” For years, Musk’s social media account has served as a platform to spread his conservative ideas, especially since he established himself as one of Donald Trump’s main supporters in the 2024 presidential campaign.
However, an analysis of Washington Post revealed that Musk has recently significantly increased the frequency of his online posts about racial issues and his concern about alleged threats to white identity or what he considers calls for “genocide” against white people. In the last seven months, 6% from Musk’s posts on X, A total of about 850 have dealt with race, almost triple the number in the previous two years. More than half of those posts have used the word “white.”
The billionaire has posted on In addition to claiming that white people are the target of relentless hatred, Musk has suggested that race negatively influences hiring, extolled the role of white people in the abolition of slavery, and accused public figures and even an AI tool that competes with his own chatbot, Grok, of racism against white and Asian people. He has engaged in political debates about his native South Africa, which he believes widely discriminated against white people in the post-apartheid era.
The billionaire has stepped up his use of racist rhetoric at a time when he is also facing new business pressures. His erocket company, SpaceX, filed to go public earlier this year and merged the space company with its artificial intelligence company, xAI, whose AI tools are less popular than those of rivals such as Google and Anthropic. It has also propelled Tesla, whose auto sales have struggled over the past year, toward an unprecedented and ambitious transformation into a robotics company.
Musk has long shared his unfiltered thoughts with his followers, an audience that now exceeds 238 million on “From what I can see, Musk agrees with the usual arguments of white supremacy,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, citing Musk’s claim that white people are a “dying minority.” “There is nothing more white supremacist than the things that Musk is supporting or pushing,” Beirich said. Musk, Tesla and SpaceX did not respond to requests for comment.
The billionaire’s statements about race have drawn the attention of his former supporters, who, in comments to The Post and in their own online posts, have argued that his obsessions are a distraction from the demands of his business and detrimental to his ambitions. “Rivian: focused on autonomy and its next vehicle,” a popular Tesla fan account on X that has become critical of Musk wrote in December, citing a competing electric vehicle maker. “Elon: focused on the percentage of white people in New Zealand.”
Musk’s recent posts on race could reinforce his reputation as a divisive political figure, an association that hurt Tesla last year after Musk’s actions during Trump’s second term sparked store protests and contributed to a drop in sales and its stock price. Many of Musk’s posts on race contradict public opinion. According to a Pew Research Center report last year, only 12% of Americans believe white people experience a lot of discrimination, the lowest percentage among all racial or ethnic groups represented in the survey.
A Gallup poll last year found that 59% of Americans do not believe racial minorities have the same job opportunities as white people, a share that Gallup said has been rising steadily since 2001. Tesla shareholders sought to distance Musk from political concerns. In November, they agreed to a compensation package that could reach $1 billion for the CEO, in an attempt to motivate him to focus on business againfollowing the year of turmoil that followed his support of Trump and his term leading the US Defense Service and his initiative to reduce the size of the government.
Musk subsequently distanced himself from Trump and his political activity became unsustainable for investors. He left the White House in May 2025. SpaceX’s IPO, which financial analysts say will attract record investment later this year, could become a new test of whether Musk’s political views limit his business opportunities. Some market analysts suspect they could have minimal impact on the rocket maker.
“I think there’s always been a price to pay for owning an Elon Musk business,” said Shay Boloor, chief market strategist at Futurum Group, which offers market research and advisory services, referring to how investors must come to terms with Musk’s controversial public statements to obtain the growth potential of your businesses. “I think the scope of that ‘Elon Musk tax’ is expanding,’” Boloor said, as his comments have become more controversial. However, many investors are focused on the value Musk creates with his companies, rather than his public rhetoric, Boloor added.
“It’s hard to say, but I think that, for some reason, society underestimates such polarizing statements,” he said. “Capitalism is surpassing all ethics.” Some investors have decided that Musk’s statements on race have crossed a line. In September, Musk posted on
“Yes,” Musk responded.
From what I can see, Musk agrees with the usual white supremacist arguments.
Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of electric vehicle advocate website Electrek, called that moment the moment Musk took off his mask completely, in a post on “I’m baffled by this whole situation…there’s no doubt he’s a white nationalist, judging by his recent statements about white people ‘taking back their nations,'” Lambert said in new statements to The Post. “As for the large institutions that support him and invest in his projects, they put money before morality.”
Ashley Jardina, associate professor of public policy and political science at the University of Virginia and author of the book White Identity Politicsstated that Musk’s positions constitute “white supremacy par excellence.” “It is becoming more and more socially acceptable to express racist attitudes more openly and explicitly,” he said. According to Jardina, President Trump, in particular, has helped change the norms around acceptable free speech.
According to Jardina, opinions that once sparked public scrutiny and calls for a figure of Musk’s stature to resign as CEO of a large company are now becoming popular. This, in turn, increases the likelihood that others will adopt or promote similar positions. “I think the fact that a major political figure or a celebrity with this type of microphone uses this type of language without being penalized for it helps make it more socially acceptable,” he said.
“I think it is effective for other influential figures to condemn this,” he added. “You don’t see much of that directed at Musk.” The investment community’s tolerance for Musk’s views is part of an increasingly entrenched pattern, Boloor said, but it has become an inherent cost of doing business. “Capitalism prevails over feelings, unfortunately,” he concluded. In one of his recent posts on X about race, billionaire Musk seemed to suggest that white people should be considered indigenous to the United States. “It certainly does not make sense that everyone except Europeans can have a homeland,” he wrote. “It’s absolutely ridiculous if you think about it. Where did white people come from?”
When asked how long a person’s ancestors had to have lived in a place to be considered indigenous, Musk responded: “250 years seems like enough to me.”