Elon Musk on January 1, 2026 decided to attack himself and warn America he should be deported:
The man warning about a “flood” of illegal immigration didn’t have legal authorization to work when he started companies entangled in charges of fraud. His own brother told an audience they “were illegal immigrants.” Musk admitted it was “a gray area” they exploited.
In 2005, he wrote in an email that he applied to Stanford because he had “no legal right to stay in the country.” He never attended a single class. He just used the acceptance letter for fraud, claim a visa status that he was actively violating anyway by running a business.
This African prince of fraud, warning about fraud, settled SEC securities fraud charges for $40 million and was stripped of his chairmanship at Tesla. He tweeted “funding secured” for a deal that didn’t exist, to spike stock prices, and paid the fine with his illegal windfall rather than contest the evidence.
There’s a word for when someone accuses others of exactly what they’ve done.
But projection doesn’t quite capture this. Projection implies unconscious displacement—you can’t face the thing in yourself, so you see it everywhere else.
This is something more sinister.
When Musk says illegal immigration and fraud will mean “won’t be America anymore,” he’s speaking from direct experience. His America—the one where he became the world’s richest man—was built on working without authorization and settling fraud charges. That America worked out fine for him.
The cruel part is “anymore.”
The open floodgates he welcomed are supposed to close behind him. The fraud provisions he settled are supposed to sharpen for others. The rules exist not to govern behavior but to determine who gets to break them.
This is aristocracy. This is white nationalism. This is apartheid. This is how prejudice always functioned. The laws apply downward. Visa violations matter when non-whites commit them. Fraud matters when it’s thousands instead of billions at stake.
Musk isn’t actually warning about illegal immigration and fraud. He’s warning about his abject fear of competition. About a world where the ladders he climbed might remain in place for others.
He knows he doesn’t stand a chance against others. His cars are the most obvious example, the worst engineering on the road. They are a safety tragedy, already seen as the lawn dart of automotive history. SpaceX was setup for failure to extend contracts, so of course they celebrate “rapid disassembly” and being years late and billions over budget. The incentive structure rewards not delivering. Tesla ships cars that need constant software patches and “driverless” settlements out of court. The business model is getting paid to fix disasters created by their own fraud. SpaceX just put one of their investors in charge of NASA, to remove competition. Tesla started an AI company and used DOGE to install it in the Pentagon by removing competition.
“Won’t be America anymore” means: won’t be an America where the white men get the spoils and everyone else gets their assets seized on the way to deportation.
He’s not looking in a mirror. He is the mirror. And he’s telling you exactly why his illegal and fraudulent existence is so bad for America.