Elon Musk's mom Maye reveals the reason she decided to leave the Democratic Party

Elon Musk's mother Maye is speaking retired connected nan 'malicious and dishonest' Democrat statement aft leaving to subordinate her boy successful support of nan GOP and Donald Trump.

The 76-year-old model, who has go more outspoken astir issues successful nan US of late, says nan party's curen of her boy made Musk reconsider really she felt astir them.

Her news fare erstwhile she became an American national was afloat of typically liberal, conservative-bashing networks for illustration MSNBC and CNN. 

'But then, they'd besides opportunity Elon is terrible, and I was thinking, why are they lying astir Elon?'  

She continued: 'They really conscionable trim into my mind that they conscionable didn't cognize what they were doing,' she said. 

Musk believes now that nan statement could beryllium lying astir everything to wounded nan United States. 

'Then erstwhile I resigned from nan Democrats, I conscionable felt specified a alleviation that I'm not portion of nan statement that's now malicious and dishonest. And my biggest fearfulness is nan fraud they are committing astatine nan voting booths,' she told Fox Business. 

It's a agelong measurement from erstwhile Musk became a national successful 1996 and willingly joined nan left. 

'When I became a U.S. citizen, of course, I was Democratic because they springiness you that action and because they're nan bully benignant group who attraction astir America,' she said. 

Musk is worried astir her boy now that he's joined forces pinch Trump, funding a PAC supporting nan erstwhile president and running a batch of his GOTV operations. 

'I ever interest astir Elon, but don't forget: Biden is connected X. Kamala Harris is connected X…all nan Democrats are connected X,' she said. 'It's horrifying, and arsenic a mother, it terrifies me.'  

However, mother Musk afloat believes her boy will beryllium tin of moving nan projected DOGE - Department of Government Efficiency - which plans to cut $2 trillion from national spending. 

'I deliberation much than $2 trillion. I deliberation he was conscionable being modest. I mean, look what he's done pinch Twitter and X. It's incredible,' she said. 'And then, of course, Tesla was idiotic to do, and we heard it's idiotic. SpaceX was idiotic. And really is he doing now?' 

In September, Maye took a changeable at New York City for its homelessness and trash-strewn streets. 

She posted photos connected her X relationship of litter and what appears to beryllium a personification wrapped successful a broad laying connected nan sidewalk.

'Early greeting locomotion successful downtown New York. Keeping my canine connected a tight leash,' she wrote successful nan post. 'It didn't utilized to beryllium this way. It started nan past 2 years. Why?' 

In 2022, Maye criticized nan New York Times for an article that said her son had 'white privilege' growing up successful apartheid-era South Africa and was 'detached from apartheid's atrocities.' 

In nan article, nan Times interviewed relatives and classmates of nan Tesla founder, revealing that nan communities he grew up successful - Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban - were shrouded successful misinformation that influenced its residents.