Just as an erratically behaved Elon Musk took the stage at a conservative conference in Washington, D.C., his ex-girlfriend Grimes was begging him on X to address an urgent medical crisis involving one of their three children.

They were too rich, too many nannies. Then he had five children with the same woman, five sons all brought up. Each one had its own nanny,' Errol Musk said.

The kid stays in the picture because he’s a great prop and charming distraction—but how many mothers can cart their children to the office?