How do celebrities fight and target each other? Well, it’s 2025, and they do it on social media, especially social media they like in their own way. Pop star Billie Eilish recently took to Instagram to lash out at Elon Musk, calling him a coward and more. Elon Musk is now responding, as he has been doing. He’s doing it on X, aka Twitter, which he also owns. His reply to Billy: Well, he’s an idiot or so he says.

Quarrel? Billy started it, at least publicly. Last week, Eilish reposted content from feminist group My Voice, My Choice on her Instagram, urging Musk to address global issues like world hunger. He added his comment by calling him a pathetic coward and also used some foul language. How impure? Well, you see it yourself because she called him, “Coward, pathetic.”

What answer did Elon Musk give to Billie Eilish?

Now, Musk is responding in kind. On Twitter, Elon Musk responded to a post that shared screenshots from Billie Eilish’s Instagram. “That’s not the sharpest tool in the shed,” the tech billionaire replied. Essentially, Musk took a subtle dig at the pop star and hinted that she was stupid for making such comments.

Earlier Instagram posts shared by Billie Eilish showed various ways that Elon Musk could use his wealth to benefit society, such as ending world hunger or saving endangered species.

Billie Eilish’s comments on Musk come after her appearance at the Wall Street Journal Awards ceremony, where she said in her speech, “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yes, give away your money.”

This is not the first time that Elon Musk has hit back at such claims. Earlier, the Tesla CEO claimed that if the United Nations could explain how “$6B would solve world hunger, he would immediately sell his stocks.”

Elon Musk is facing criticism for his wealth

The timing of Musk’s response came after similar criticisms from other public figures. Some time ago, renowned author Joyce Carol Oates commented on social media that Musk was “completely uneducated, uncultured.” Musk responded to Oats, calling him a “lazy liar and abuser of semicolons.” Well, you know, celebrities! They never let anyone slip.

Elon Musk recently earned a $1 trillion Tesla pay package, though he’ll need to hit some big goals to get a full payday from his EV company. However, if he achieves the target, he could become the world’s first trillionaire. Although Musk may not believe that money alone can solve the world’s problems, he has insisted that the Tesla Optimus robot could help eliminate poverty.