Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s 14 children with four women, posted a video online implying that “Christian” MAGA influencer Benny Johnson — who has reportedly been fired for plagiarism more than once — is gay.
Holy Crap!
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 15, 2026
Former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair just posted this moments ago to Instagram about MAGA die-hard Benny Johnson, seemingly implying that he is gay, after teasing that she will be spilling the beans on Johnson. pic.twitter.com/4hklj1qvCS
The war reportedly began after St. Clair publicly apologized for her past attacks agauinst transgender people, and made references to her son’s transgender sister whom Musk has falsely claimed is “dead.”
I feel immense guilt for my role. And even more guilt that things I have said in the past may have caused my son’s sister more pain. Idrk how to make amends for many of these things but I have been trying incredibly hard privately to learn + advocate for those within the trans…
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 11, 2026
After St. Clair’s post went viral, Musk announced he would be seeking full custody of their son, saying her statements suggested she might transition their one-year-old child.
Johnson, who has a long history of lying, then piled on against St. Clair, which brought a swift response, reports Newsweek:
“The only thing that you can hope in this scenario is that the child goes to the sane parent that doesn’t believe in this kind of gender fluidity and butchery of children,” Johnson said….
St. Clair has posted multiple Instagram stories about Johnson and those remarks from January.
“I’m not a consumer of Benny Johnson content because I value my IQ, and I’m not one of his cerebral speed bump boomer followers. Unfortunately, I’ve watched his content in the last 24 hours because it’s been sent to me. And before yesterday, I was unaware of the content that BJ had been putting out about me on his show, including about my family and my children. And that I should lose my child that I am not a sane parent, that I am a narcissist, making up lies about my finances, and my family situation.”
“You wanna go Benny, you wanna talk about my children, and make this personal? Let’s go,” St. Clair said in a follow-up post.
After St. Clair spoke out on her Instagram, Johnson wrote in a post on X that read in part: “I have no idea what she is talking about. I think we’re all sick of the grifting e-girl drama at this point. It’s tiresome.”
…St. Clair took to Instagram on April 15 and said that previously she was unaware of the content he had been putting out on his show about her. “You will regret the day u spoke about my child for the rest of your life,” she wrote on her Instagram story.
(Sources: The Washington Post, X, Poynter, Newsweek, Politifact)