UPDATE: 11/19/2025 at 10:15 a.m. ET — Elon Musk has fired back at Billie Eilish after the singer called the potential trillionaire a “pathetic p**** bitch coward.”
“She’s not the sharpest tool in the shed,” Musk, 54, wrote via X on Monday, November 17, while replying to a post recapping Eilish’s recent Instagram Stories about how the Tesla founder could use his money to benefit populations in need.
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First, Billie Eilish called out the billionaires. Now, she’s taking aim at the man who could become the world’s first trillionaire.
Eilish, 23, took to her Instagram Stories on Thursday, November 13, to call Elon Musk a “f***ing pathetic p**** bitch coward.” The public call-out came after she reshared an Instagram carousel originally posted by My Voice, My Choice, which began with an image of Musk and text that read, “Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, here’s what he could do with it.”
The slides that followed suggested ways that Musk could assist populations around the globe, including a claim that he could “end world hunger,” “save endangered species” and “rebuild Gaza.”
“Musk could choose to spend $40 billion every year to end world hunger by 2030 or provide universal safe clean water $140 billion for the planet for the next seven years,” one slide read.
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The second slide added, “To save all 10,443 Critically Endangered species, Musk could pay $1-2 billion annually to bring them all down to Endangered status.”
The final slide read, “At just $53.2 billion, Musk could rebuild Gaza and the occupied West Bank according to the EU. Although the UN predicts this could be upwards of $70 billion for Gaza alone. If he wanted to spread the wealth, and aid further, he could also rebuild Ukraine and Syria at a cost of $793.2 billion.”
Eilish suggested that Musk could do even more by writing, “Etc …”
Us Weekly reached out to a rep for Musk for comment.
The singer’s comments came after 75 percent of Tesla shareholders voted to approve a compensation plan worth more than $1 trillion for Musk. The SpaceX founder will be required to meet several business goals over the next decade in order to reach trillionaire status, including boosting Tesla’s market cap to $8.5 trillion by 2035, selling 12 million vehicles a year, and deploying 1 million robotaxis and 1 million humanoid robots, according to Business Insider. He will also need to remain Tesla CEO for seven and a half years to earn shares from the new pay package.
This isn’t the first time that Eilish has called out wealthy figures. During the Wall Street Journal’s 2025 Innovator Awards at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on October 29, the Grammy winner urged billionaires to donate their riches to those in need.
“We’re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark, and people need empathy and help more than, kind of, ever, especially in our country,” she said. “I’d say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things, and maybe give it to some people that need it.”
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Eilish continued, “Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah. Give your money away, shorties!”
One of the event’s attendees was Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, who is the fifth richest person in the world with a net worth of $230 billion, according to Forbes. While many people clapped at Eilish’s comments, an eyewitness told People that Zuckerberg, 41, did not.
