Elon Musk explained the black eye he was sporting in the Oval Office Friday that everyone was talking about on social media, saying he’d been horsing around with his 5-year-old son when he told him to punch him in the face.
During a press conference at the White House with President Donald Trump, one member of the White House Press Corps had to ask the question everyone was thinking — and that was what exactly happened to cause Musk’s blackened right eye?
Musk first laughed and cracked a joke that he hadn’t been “anywhere near France,” a reference to the viral video of French President Emmanuel Macron getting slapped in the face by his wife, Brigitte Macron.
Elon Musk’s 5-year-old son, X, punched him so hard he got a black eye😂
Reporter: “Mr. Musk, is your eye okay?”
Elon: “Well, I wasn’t anywhere near France… I was just walking around with Lil X, and I…