Did Elon Musk reply to Stephen Miller's "We will take back America" post on X with "Just like I took your wife"? No, that's not true: Musk addressed the claim, saying he never posted that comment and there's no record of it on Musk's account or Miller's. Such a post would have been newsworthy and credible archives of it or reports about it do not exist to contradict Musk's statement that it's fake.
The counterfeit X post appeared in a June 8, 2025 post on X.com (archived here) on the @MichaelGoolsbyV account under the title "Musk has now deleted this tweet". It opened:
For those who didn't know, @StephenM's wife @KatieMiller, a communications professional, went to work for Elon Musk shortly before Musk's implosion with President Trump.
Here's what the post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:
(Source: X.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Musk, who owns X, posted that it's fake (archived here):
(Source: X.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
Musk's post was in response to X's chatbot, Grok, which had responded to a user that the snarky reply to Miller, and deletion of it, would be consistent with Musk's patterns. Grok's reply read:
The post from Elon Musk likely existed and was deleted. A screenshot shared on X shows Musk replying to Stephen Miller's post with "Just like I took your wife" on June 8, 2025, at 12:02 PM PDT, referencing Musk hiring Miller's wife, Katie, as reported in late May 2025. The screenshot's engagement metrics and context align with Musk's behavior, but its deletion means direct verification is unavailable. While a fabricated screenshot is possible, the evidence leans toward the post being real but removed, consistent with Musk's pattern of deleting controversial posts.
The Miller post is real and, as of June 9, was still live on X (archived here), with no Musk reply referring to Miller's wife.
The earliest version of the counterfeit appeared on the @marionnumber4 account, whose bio section includes "Commie shitposter ٠ I make and post memes and satire tweets". That account posted, and then deleted a version of the counterfeit post, but not before it was archived here.
Lead Stories searched for the phrase "like I took your wife" on the X account of Musk and found no match.
Using Microsoft Bing, which indexes and may capture deleted posts, Lead Stories searched, using the search string site:x.com/elonmusk just like I took your wife. Bing's index contained no such post by Musk:
(Source: Bing.com screenshot by Lead Stories.)
