Elon Musk has posted about race more than 850 times in recent months. It’s fracturing his fan base

Elon Musk has spent the past six months posting more than ever about race and claims such as “white genocide” on his X social media platform, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

The Trump-supporting CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X, who left his DOGE role in May 2025, has posted 850 times in approximately 182 days. Six percent of those posts are about race, and half of those posts include the word “white,” according to the Post.

“They’re openly advocating White genocide,” South African-born Musk posted on December 11, 2025, over a compilation of clips about migration in the U.S.

And, “They are calling for the genocide of Whites,” over a video of Black South Africans at a protest on April 14, 2026.

The world’s richest man is also a frequent reposter of other right-wing accounts discussing white rights.

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This is not the first year that Musk has posted about race, as he has used his platform in the past to advocate for his beliefs surrounding nationalism and birth rates. However, over the past six months, his posting rate about race has tripled compared to the past two years, with posts about race nearly once a day between October and mid-April.

Last September, Musk agreed with an X post that claimed white people had a choice between being “conquered, enslaved, raped and genocided while being called ‘racist’” or reclaiming “our nations and our dignity while being called ‘racist.’”

Musk replied, “Yes” to the inflammatory comment.

While his post received a lot of supportive comments, some followers were seemingly left exasperated by it.

“You would have been banned for tweeting stuff like this and now the owner of this platform is reposting White Nationalist content,” one wrote.

Musk also became embroiled in controversy before Trump’s January 2025 inauguration when he gave a salute on stage that was described by some as fascist, which he has repeatedly denied.

Recalling that salute, one follower replied to his September X post by saying: “Ah so it was a hitler salute after all.”

Now, his frequent posts seem to be turning off some previously ardent supporters.

One former Tesla fan account on X posted in support of a rival car manufacturer in December, saying, “Rivian: focused on autonomy and their next vehicle Elon: focused on the percentage of white people in New Zealand.”

This doesn’t appear to have stopped Musk. As recently as April 20, he stated, “Australians are becoming an endangered species,” as part of a repost about Australian birth rates.

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Musk has posted about several theories deemed to be “standard talking points of white supremacy,” according to Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, including his belief that there is a “genocide” against white people, that employers are biased against hiring white applicants, and that white people are a dying minority.

“I think there’s always been an Elon tax to own an Elon business,” said Shay Boloor, chief market strategist of market research group, Futurum, told The Washington Post. “I think that the spectrum of that Elon tax is widening.”

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However, Boloor added that the financial benefits of investing in Musk’s largely successful companies, SpaceX and Tesla, tend to sway people from turning against the billionaire completely.

Tesla, SpaceX, and X have been contacted for comment.

In November, Tesla shareholders agreed to a pay packet for Musk worth a potential $1 trillion in what The Washington Post claims was an attempt to turn his focus back from politics to his company. But this new data shows that he is still focusing energy on discussing his beliefs around race.

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Despite SpaceX’s initial public offering later this year, a deal which could make Musk the world’s first trillionaire, detractors such as former Tesla investor Fred Lambert have said continued investment in Musk is “money over morals.”

“The entire situation baffles me ... there’s no doubt he is a White nationalist based on his recent statements about White people ‘reclaiming their nations,’” he told the newspaper.

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