Cardi B Slams Elon Musk For Calling Her A “Puppet” For Kamala Harris: “Fix My Algorithm”

Natalie Oganesyan
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Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B hit back at Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he called her a “puppet” for the Kamala Harris campaign.

In the social media dust-up — made on Musk’s own X platform — a right-wing account posted a clip of the “WAP” singer at a Milwaukee rally for the vice president and presidential candidate, during which she had to deal with a teleprompter error and stall for time as she was hand-delivered a phone with her speech’s points.

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“Another puppet who can’t even talk without being fed the words,” Musk said in a quote-tweet of the original post, which called the mixup “embarrassing.” The noted Donald Trump supporter added, “The Kamala campaign has no authenticity or true empathy.”

The singer-songwriter, née Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, slammed Musk with her own quote-tweet response, writing: “I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle…. PS fix my algorithm.”

Musk was born in South Africa to wealthy parents, and his father Errol Musk is said to have owned a partial stake in a Zambian emerald mine.

During her rally appearance, Cardi B delivered an impassioned speech about women’s rights, admonishing Trump’s sexism: “Just like Kamala Harris, I too have been the underdog, I’ve been underestimated, my success belittled and discredited. Let me tell you something: Women have to work ten times harder, perform ten times better, and still people question us, how we got to the top. I can’t stand a bully, but just like Kamala, I always stand up to one.”

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