Elon Musk’s parenting skills were the latest target on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, drawing an immediate backlash. Katie Miller, the wife of President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Stephen Miller, fired back hard on X on Sunday. As per her post on the platform, the podcaster, who commands over 300,000 followers, called the NBC sketch show “the antithesis of comedy and satire.”(Miller’s remarks are her own; the publication makes no judgment on her characterization of the show or the individuals she mentions.)“It takes weak men to take cheap shots — especially about @elonmusk’s kids. Elon is a devoted dad who prioritizes time with his kids and it’s obvious they absolutely adore him,” Miller wrote.The backlash followed the debut of actor Jeremy Culhane’s Elon Musk impression on SNL, in which a Grok chatbot was asked to deliver an “epic, vulgar roast.” The chatbot called him the “worst thing South Africa has ever done” and quipped that “when you’re on TV, it feels like an episode of Hate on the Spectrum,” before zeroing in on the billionaire’s large family.“Maybe if you have 100 more kids, one of them will talk to you,” the chatbot read.Miller continued her post on X, writing:“This is just a political hit job masquerading under the banner of comedy.”Elon Musk on building a large family:Elon Musk Meets With Senators On Capitol Hill - Source: GettyElon Musk has fathered at least fourteen children, across four separate relationships spanning more than two decades. The billionaire has never been quiet about wanting that number to grow. Saturday Night Live took note.Six of those fourteen children came from his marriage to Justine Wilson. Among them was their firstborn, Nevada Alexander, who died in infancy in 2002. Griffin and Vivian Jenna followed as twins in 2004, with triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian born in 2006. Vivian, who came out as transgender in 2022 and took her mother’s surname, has publicly distanced herself from Musk.Musk’s remaining eight children are split across three other women. Grimes, the musician legally known as Claire Elise Boucher, has three of his children. Shivon Zilis, a tech executive, has four. He also has one child with conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair.The size of Musk’s family is not accidental. He has openly embraced pronatalism, the idea that declining birthrates threaten long-term social and economic stability and that people with resources should be having more children.(Musk’s embrace of pronatalism is his personal ideological stance; The publication does not endorse or oppose this position.)In a July 2021 post on X, he was blunt, writing:“population collapse is potentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization.”Walter Isaacson wrote both a biography of Musk and a Time magazine cover story. He appeared on Today in 2023. As per the interview, he said“He believes that people should have many more children,” Isaacson explained.The seventy-four-year-old author added that Elon Musk personally “wants to have a lot of children.”Vivian Jenna Wilson opens up about her estrangement from Elon Musk:Elon Musk, his son, X Æ A-Xii, and Musk's mother, Maye Musk arrive at the White House's South Lawn, after arriving on Marine One with President Donald Trump on March 2, 2025 in Washington, DC - Source: GettyVivian Jenna Wilson has been living her life on her own terms for a while now. Back in 2022, she legally changed her name and gender, and the court filing left little room for interpretation. As per a report shared by the Associated Press, Wilson made two things clear in the petition: her gender identity, and her wish to put distance between herself and her father.“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she wrote.Wilson later spoke to NBC News, confirming she hadn’t spoken to Elon Musk in four years at that point. She wasn’t mincing words.“I am an adult. I am twenty years old. I am not a child. My life should be defined by my own choices,” she said.(The above reflects Wilson’s personal statements to the press and her own lived experience as she has described it publicly. The publication does not take a position on the private details of their estrangement.)Elon Musk addressed the situation in a 2024 interview with Jordan Peterson. He said Wilson had been “killed by the woke mind virus.” Wilson wasn’t silent about that either. According to a report from Teen Vogue, she sat for a March 2025 profile with the publication and called him “a pathetic man-child.”(Wilson’s characterization of her father above is her own stated opinion. It is not a view endorsed or shared by the publication, and readers should note this remains a deeply contested family matter that has played out publicly.)The Teen Vogue interview also gave Wilson room to speak about something she said genuinely surprised people. She revealed she had limited knowledge of her own family’s full picture.“I will say I do not actually know how many siblings I have, if you include half-siblings,” she shared.She added that she found out about some of Elon Musk's children at the same time the public did.Her transition journey came up too. Wilson claimed Musk “was not as supportive” as her mother had been. Getting medical care while estranged from him wasn’t straightforward, particularly when parental consent was needed for testosterone blockers and hormone replacement therapy.“I had not talked to him in months,” she said, recalling what it took to get that consent sorted.