Cardi B Claps Back at Elon Musk for Calling Out Kamala Endorsement

Cardi B clapped back at Elon Musk after he criticized her teleprompter mishap at a campaign event for Kamala Harris.

Cardi appeared at the rally for Harris in Milwaukee on Friday, speaking in support of the presidential candidate. However, a teleprompter issue delayed her speech.

“One second, guys. One second,” she said. “Sorry guys, I’m a little nervous!” She was eventually handed a phone with her speech on it and was able to continue.

Musk reposted a video of Cardi stumbling during her speech. “Another puppet who can’t even talk without being fed the words,” the tech mogul wrote on his own social media platform. “The Kamala campaign has no authenticity or true empathy.”

The harsh words provoked Cardi to clap back on X with a lengthy statement.

“I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me,” she wrote.

The Bronx-born artist described herself as a "product of welfare" and of Section 8 housing, referring to the government program for housing rental assistance for low-income families.

"I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you," she continued. “But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle….PS fix my algorithm.”

Earlier this year, Cardi said she wasn’t going to vote in this upcoming election—but her tune has changed since then. In May, she had a live chat on X in which she explained why she didn’t want to vote for former President Donald Trump or then-candidate President Joe Biden this year.

"I don't ever want to feel something happened in the next two years, and feel like, 'Damn, my vote contribute[d] to that,'" she said at the time. "I don't want my vote to contribute whatever happened in the next two or four years when it comes to Trump, I cannot support him because I feel like he wants to do a dictatorship.

"When it comes to Biden, I can't support you because you're funding a war," she continued, referring to U.S. support for Israel of its military action in Palestine. "You're funding a war where millions are getting killed."