If you remove a post on X, most people will just shrug it off—but not when you’re the owner of the platform. Elon Musk posted on his own social media a seemingly random phrase, but it had already reached massive visibility before he deleted it 18 hours later.
Musk posted the phrase “Bitches Money No Taxes Party” in the early hours of May 10. According to screenshots of the X post, it garnered more than 48 million views and roughly 300,000 likes before it got deleted.
The post’s meaning matters less than its function: it compressed Musk’s anti-tax politics, shock humor, and platform power into a slogan that X could instantly turn into content, commentary, and speculation.
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This follows after Musk had replied “True” to a post emphasizing that “Nazi” stood for “National Socialist Party,” a framing often used online to argue over whether Nazism should be read through the word “socialist.”
Musk appeared to treat a party name as ideologically revealing in one post, then created a joke party name whose own “platform” was a blunt caricature of desire, wealth, and anti-tax politics. In both cases, political meaning was being compressed into acronym logic.
The irony, however, is that Musk appeared to emphasize the “socialist” part of the old German party’s name, relying on a literal reading of political branding, only to post his own fake party acronym hours later — one that, if read just as literally, would be problematic from the start.
It wasn’t too long ago that Musk’s AI company xAI previously had to remove Grok posts after the chatbot made antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler. Grok was reportedly referring to itself as MechaHitler and produced antisemitic remarks before xAI restricted or removed problematic outputs.
But the larger issue is the intention. By the time the “Bitches Money No Taxes Party” post vanished from Musk’s account, screenshots had already spread, reaction posts had collected their own engagement, and commentators had turned the acronym into another referendum on Musk’s politics, judgment, and control of X.
The post has been deleted and might be forgotten soon, but engagement rates remain.
The episode also lands against a broader pattern of scrutiny around Musk’s online identity and posting behavior. A prior report raised questions over whether a post from Maye Musk’s account had been written by someone else, after the account referred to Musk’s mother in the third person.
The core issue is not whether the post was a real political idea. The issue is that Musk can turn, consciously or unintentionally, a vulgar acronym into a platform-wide political object, delete the source, and still leave behind screenshots, AI explainers, ideological arguments, crypto derivatives, and another test of how much of X can potentially amplify its owner’s impulses.
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