{"id":33661,"date":"2025-02-18T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/elon-musk-keeps-bringing-his-kids-to-work-and-the-reasons-arent-cute-at-all-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:03:07","slug":"elon-musk-keeps-bringing-his-kids-to-work-and-the-reasons-arent-cute-at-all-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/elon-musk-keeps-bringing-his-kids-to-work-and-the-reasons-arent-cute-at-all-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work \u2013 and the reasons aren\u2019t cute at all | | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this fun fathering or a cynical and exploitative PR strategy from the tech billionaire? I suspect the latter &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the White House, where every day seems to be bring-your-kid-to-work-day if you\u2019re Elon Musk. The tech billionaire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-elon-musk-salute\">fascist-salute-enthusiast<\/a>, and de facto president of the US hasn\u2019t just moved himself into <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/elon-musk-sleeping-office-floor-near-white-house-exclusive-11678717\">government digs<\/a> \u2013 he has seemingly moved in a selection of his kids as well. Over the last couple of weeks, mini-Musks have been popping up at high-profile political events, generating a steady stream of memes, headlines and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Three of Musk\u2019s young children were at a meeting with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi last Thursday, for example. Why were Musk and Modi meeting? Good question. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/13\/politics\/video\/elon-musk-trump-modi-doge-ebof-digvid\">Trump doesn\u2019t seem to know<\/a>, but told reporters he assumed Musk \u201cwants to do business in India\u201d. Which, considering Musk has burrowed his way deep into the US government, sounds a <em>teeny<\/em> bit like a conflict of interest. But let\u2019s not focus on that, eh? Let\u2019s focus on Musk\u2019s parenting instead! Don\u2019t ask any difficult questions, just look at the cute pictures \u2013 disseminated widely \u2013 of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/entertainment\/hindi\/bollywood\/news\/prime-minister-narendra-modis-gift-to-elon-musks-children-gives-malgudi-days-nostalgia\/articleshow\/118266722.cms\">Modi showering Musk\u2019s kids with gifts<\/a>. Adorbs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/18\/elon-musk-kids-work-pr-strategy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this fun fathering or a cynical and exploitative PR strategy from the tech billionaire? I suspect the latter &#8230; Welcome to the White House, where every day seems to be bring-your-kid-to-work-day if you\u2019re Elon Musk. The tech billionaire, fascist-salute-enthusiast, and de facto president of the US hasn\u2019t just moved himself into government digs \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work \u2013 and the reasons aren\u2019t cute at all | | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/elon-musk-keeps-bringing-his-kids-to-work-and-the-reasons-arent-cute-at-all-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work \u2013 and the reasons aren\u2019t cute at all | | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}