Trevor Noah has thrown shade at the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who was accused of working in the US as an “illegal foreigner.”. The comedian’s quip is based on Elon’s comments about having a transgendered child.
Live Elon – who owns the X platform – Trevor was born in South Africa and emigrated to the US for work purposes.
The 53-year-old boasts three citizenships: South African, Canadian, and American.
ELON MUSK CALLED AN ‘ILLEGAL FOREIGNER’
Over the weekend, US outgoing president Joe Biden called Elon Musk an “illegal foreigner”.
Biden said of Elon, who has publicly backed Donald Trump in the presidential elections next month: “That wealthiest man in the world turned out to be an illegal worker here. No, I’m serious. He was supposed to be in school when he came on a student visa. He wasn’t in school, he was violating the law. And he’s talking about all these illegals coming our way?”
Elon – who is anti open borders – left SA in 1989 at the age of 18 years old to move to Canada, his mother Maye Musk’s country of birth. He moved to the US in 1995 to pursue his studies. The Pretoria-born man then went on to establish several lucrative businesses in his adoptive country, including Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal and the Boring Company.
Clapping back at Biden, Elon tweeted: “I was, in fact, allowed to work in the US. I was on a J-1 visa that transitioned to an H1-B. They know this, as they have all my records.
Throwing shade at the 81-year-old, Elon added: “Losing the election is making them desperate.”
Images via X: @mayemusk
TREVOR NOAH SHADES FELLOW SOUTH AFRICAN
On his X account, Trevor Noah initially sympathised with Elon Musk, a fellow South African.
He tweeted: “Don’t listen to the haters Elon, I get it. The government thought you were a student but you identified as a worker”.
The tweet quickly turned into a shady swipe when Trevor added the hashtag “#transitioning”.
The comment is likely over Elon’s comments about snubbing his transgendered daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, who was born to his first wife, Justine.
Elon has been vocal about his disdain for the “woke mind agenda” which includes him being “tricked” into authorising treatment for his child to transition from male to female in her teenage years. Elon added that his child was essentially “dead” and “born gay and slightly autistic.”
Vivian – now 20 years old – said of her father in an interview with NBC News: “He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there. And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”
IS TREVOR NOAH A US CITIZEN?
Like Elon Musk, Trevor Noah is also a naturalised US citizen. Elton obtained citizenship in 2002, while Trevor received his in 2020.
In 2015, Trevor packed up his life in SA to live in the US, after he was announced as the new host of The Daily Show.
He splits his time between the US and South Africa.
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