Elon Musk wants everyone on social media to know he’s furious about sex offenders and people who protect them. But, he could not convince a single soul. Why? His own post about Donald Trump from a year ago came back to bite him.
On Jan. 19, the Department of Homeland Security posted a long thread about an ICE operation in St. Paul targeting two convicted sex offenders. These were men with records including first-degree and child sexual assault, domestic violence, and failure to register as sex offenders. According to DHS, the suspects were not apprehended during the operation and remain at large.
Musk replied enthusiastically to the post, saying, “It is pure evil for people to stop the arrest of child predators.” Full stop. He gave a righteous indignation and moved on. But there is just one problem. This is the same Elon Musk who, a year ago, publicly accused Donald Trump of being “in the Epstein files.” And right after, he was seen lobbying around him.
In June 2025, Musk unambiguously posted on X that Trump’s name is in the sealed Epstein documents. He even asserted that this was “the real reason they have not been made public.” The tweet went viral, got hundreds of millions of views, then quietly became inconvenient.
After linking Trump to sex offenders, Musk joined him for dinners
Sometime after his post, Musk didn’t distance himself from Trump. He dined with him, endorsed him, financially backed him, and used his platform to amplify his campaign. And now, Musk is lecturing the public about “pure evil.”
The Homeland Security statement framed the St. Paul operation as a routine enforcement action complicated by a U.S. citizen who allegedly refused identification and lived at the residence. Musk couldn’t help but reiterate how stopping the arrest of sex offenders is evil. But his selective moral outrage is peak hypocrisy.
If stopping child predators’ arrest is “pure evil,” then what does it mean to bankroll and socialize with someone you yourself accused of being connected to the most notorious child sex trafficking scandal in modern history? To make it worse, Musk never retracted his Epstein claim or clarified it. He just… moved on.
That silence speaks volumes. Must now wants to position himself as an ethical authority on crimes against children. On the other hand, he loudly supports a president whose administration continues to protect child sex offenders related to Epstein.
Social media plastered Musk’s old words on his post
You don’t get to shout “pure evil” at civilians while sitting down for dinner with a man you once implied was associated with sex offenders. Users on X made sure the point got across to Musk. “The audacity of this post is off the charts,” one wrote plainly.
Another bluntly added, “By your logic, this means you are pure evil.” They repeatedly reminded him of his words about Trump and his hypocrisy:
It’s like when you publicly said Trump was in the Epstein Files and then went back to having dinner with him.
The implication is clear. You can’t frame yourself as a defender of children while helping consolidate power around someone whose past you publicly called into question. Elon Musk didn’t forget what he said about Trump. He just decided it didn’t matter anymore. And that is what people are calling “pure evil.”
Published: Jan 20, 2026 03:42 pm