The exact weight of Swift’s endorsement in the national race is difficult to gauge directly, but it was an emphatic statement from an influential superstar with an army of energetic fans. And it appears that at least one major Trump supporter, the ever-thirsty Elon Musk, thought he could work viral magic by responding to her with an offer of insemination. “Fine Taylor,” Musk posted on X, the website he owns and the one that still smolders in the ruins of Twitter, “you win… I will bear you a child and guard your cats with my life.”

Musk, who has fathered 12 known children and is currently embroiled in a custody battle with ex-girlfriend Grimes over three of them, and had three others with an employee of his at brain-chip implant company Neuralink, has long stoked an unfounded panic that Western nations are headed for “population collapse.” In 2022, he tweeted “I’m doing my part haha” in reference to human reproduction. He has also amplified claims of the “Great Replacement” theory, a conspiracy theory that falsely holds that liberals and Jews are facilitating mass illegal immigration of people of color in order to turn white Westerners into a culturally oppressed minority.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO retweeted and responded to anti-Harris and anti-media posts on his platform during Tuesday night’s debate and in the hours afterward, offering little praise for Trump. He did, however, seem enamored with the idea that the election might be a matter of loyalty to either him or Swift. Responding to a tweet from an account that declared, “Oh my God, this has really become an Elon vs. Taylor Swift election,” he posted his favorite emoji, the laughing-crying face. An hour later, Musk, whose recreational drug use and sometimes erratic behavior have raised concerns among his companies’ executives, tweeted his line about impregnating Swift and protecting her cats.

An hour later, it had about 50,000 likes, along with nearly 10,000 comments that alternated between distaste and approval. Neither Swift nor her boyfriend, NFL star and three-time Super Bowl winner Travis Kelce, have responded to the overture.