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Cardi B Slams Elon Musk For Calling Her A “Puppet” For Kamala Harris: “Fix My Algorithm”


Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B hit back at Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he called her a 'puppet' for the Kamala Harris campaign.

Cardi B / Elon MuskGetty Images In the social media dust-up — made on Musk’s own X platform — a right-wing account posted a clip of the “WAP” singer at a Milwaukee rally for the vice president and presidential candidate, during which she had to deal with a teleprompter error and stall for time as she was hand-delivered a phone with her speech’s points. “Another puppet who can’t even talk without being fed the words,” Musk said in a quote-tweet of the original post, which called the mixup “embarrassing.” The noted Donald Trump supporter added, “The Kamala campaign has no authenticity or true empathy.” The singer-songwriter, née Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, slammed Musk with her own quote-tweet response, writing: “I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me!

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