Elon Musk posts ominous message after TikToker said ‘he’s about to die’
A TikToker who said Elon Musk is ‘about to die’ has prompted an eerie response from the Tesla CEO.
The unknown TikToker, from Somalia, was chatting on a live stream when she showed a video of Musk and then said she wasn’t worried about him, adding: ‘He is about to die.’
Musk replied to the now viral video on X, writing: ‘Then it is war.’
Despite the TikToker’s identity not being known, many members of the Republican party have called for her deportation, even as it’s not known if the Somali woman is even based in the United States.
The interaction comes as tensions between the Somali American community and the US government are increasing.
Minnesota, home to America’s largest Somalian population, has faced the wrath of Trump in the past month.
There are just 98,000 Somali immigrants currently living in the United States, about 83% of whom are naturalised citizens, according to the United States census.
In recent weeks, Somalia has been at the forefront of political discussion in the United States, after Trump claimed immigrants from the African country were ‘ruining’ the state of Minnesota.
He said it was ‘barely a country’ and referred to Somali immigrants as ‘garbage’. His issues with the country appear to stem from the Islamic State (IS) groups, which have hidden and attacked villages in the country.
Earlier this year, Trump said of the militants: ‘WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU.’ Local military and police are attempting to find and destroy the terror cells, which the President has been aiding in.
US air strikes in Somalia have doubled since 2024, as Trump tries to target the killers who he said ‘threatened the United States’.
And this week, allegations of misuse of federal childcare funds for fraud have spread after a right-wing YouTuber’s video went viral, prompting Donald Trump to suspend all funding for Minnesota.
A viral video posted by the right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley, showing him speaking to employees of a daycare in Minnesota, went viral last week.
He focused on the Quality Learning Centre in Minneapolis, which was closed at the time Shirley walked around asking, ‘Where are the kids?’
Just days after posting his video, a second Somali-run daycare was broken into and ‘extensively vandalised’.
Manager of the centre, Ibrahim Ali, has slammed any allegations of fraud, pointing out that the video was taken when the centre was shut down.
The centre operates from 2 to 10pm, but Shirley filmed his now viral video at around 11am.
Ali has invited those questioning his family’s daycare to come during operating hours, adding: ‘You guys could come tomorrow. You guys could come on Thursday, and you guys could come back on Monday.
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