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Fact Check: Debunking rumor that Elon Musk said he 'took' Stephen Miller's wife in X post
Claim:
A screenshot authentically shows an X post from Elon Musk in June 2025 that said, "Just like I took your wife," in response to an X post from Stephen Miller that said, "We will take back America."
Rating:
In early June 2025, a screenshot of an allegedly authentic X post from tech billionaire Elon Musk saying he "took" the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller spread widely online.
"Just like I took your wife," Musk purportedly said in response to an X post from Miller that said, "We will take back America."
The post referenced reports that Miller's wife, Katie Miller, left her position at the White House to work for Musk. (Snopes previously examined a rumor of a romantic relationship between Musk and Miller's wife.)
(X user @Fred_Guttenberg)
The rumor spread on platforms like X, Reddit and Imgur. Musk's AI chatbot on X, Grok, even got involved, claiming that the post "likely existed and was deleted."
However, Musk rebuked Grok's claim in his own X post. "No, it's fake ffs," Musk said. "I never posted this." Thus, we rate this screenshot as fake.
Some skeptical X users believed Musk may have been lying. However, a Google search for the post found no stories from reputable news outlets covering the post as legitimate — and if Musk had posted something as incendiary as this, especially given his very public breakup as an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, it would certainly make news.
It is worth noting that Grok said "a fabricated screenshot" in this case is possible and "direct verification is unavailable." Artificial intelligence is also often unreliable; according to a post published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the "technology behind generative AI tools isn't designed to differentiate between what's true and what's not true."
It is unclear who created the fake post; a reverse image search to find the original post returned no results as of this writing.
Grok said in a separate response to an X user that someone under the handle @marionumber4 shared the initial since-deleted fake post. That user's profile said, "I make and post memes and satire tweets." However, as we just said, artificial intelligence is not always accurate, making it difficult to determine if credit for the fake post does, in fact, go to @marionumber4. We reached out to @marionumber4 to ask about the post and await a response.
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