Vivian Wilson, the 20-year-old estranged transgender daughter of tech mogul Elon Musk, has announced plans to leave the United States following Donald Trump’s recent election victory.

Wilson shared her decision on Threads, expressing her discomfort with the political landscape under Trump’s return to office, according to a report by the UK’s Daily Mail.

“I don’t see my future in the United States.

“I’ve thought this for a while, but yesterday confirmed it for me. Even if he’s only in office for four years, even if anti-trans regulations don’t materialise, the people who voted for this aren’t going anywhere anytime soon,” she wrote.

Vivian, who was born Xavier Musk in 2004, filed to legally change her name and gender in April 2022, requesting to sever ties with her father by adopting her mother’s maiden name, Wilson.

In the court filings, she was quoted as saying, “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape, or form.”
Musk, who openly supported Trump and fathered 12 children across three relationships, has been outspoken about his strained relationship with Vivian.

Referring to her as a “communist” who views wealth as inherently evil, Musk, 53, claimed he had been misled into consenting to her use of puberty blockers.

“I didn’t fully understand what was happening at the time; it was during COVID, and I was told Xavier might commit suicide,” he said.

Musk has previously described puberty blockers as “sterilisation drugs” and labelled gender dysphoria as “incredibly evil,” arguing that those promoting it “should go to prison.” He claimed, “I lost my son… They call it ‘deadnaming’ because your son is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”

In response to Musk’s comments, Vivian stated that her father had little involvement in her childhood and often criticised her for her “femininity and queerness.”

“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he simply wasn’t there.

“I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness. I’ve been reduced to a stereotype. I think that says a lot about how he views queer people and children in general,” she stated.

The President had unveiled the statue of himself during a tour of the country’s Western Region.

The statue, which stands in front of the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi, is meant to honour the president’s development initiatives, according to Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, the region’s minister.

He unveiled the statue during a visit dubbed a “thank-you tour” on Wednesday, which also coincided with the promotion of key projects initiated under his leadership.

After unveiling the statue, many Ghanaians took to social media to mock the monument, calling it an act of “self-glorification.”

Opposition MP Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah in a post on X said, “President Akufo-Addo’s unveiling of a statue of himself at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital raises serious questions about his priorities and commitment to the people of the Western Region.

“This extravagant display of self-aggrandizement comes at a time when the region has been largely neglected, with pressing needs and concerns left unaddressed.

“The Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-NPP government continues to take the Western Region for granted. This grandiose gesture is a misplaced priority.

“The people of the Western Region deserve better than these self-serving displays.”

Akufo-Addo, who is set to step down in January 2025 after serving two terms, has claimed that he had fulfilled 80% of his campaign promises, a claim many Ghanaians have countered.

Despite the president’s praise of his administration’s achievements, many Ghanaians are questioning the significance of the President’s statue, especially as several major projects initiated by his administration remain uncompleted.

Another X user was quoted as saying, “It would have been better if the president had let history recognize his work, rather than celebrating himself now.”

Some Ghanaians have called for the statue to be removed after Akufo-Addo leaves office, with photos of the monument going viral.

During his tour, the President reportedly emphasized his policy to abolish secondary school fees, which he touts as one of his administration’s biggest achievements.

His visit to the Western Region also ties into the campaign efforts of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), as the country prepares for next month’s general election.

Despite the outrage against the unveiling of his statue, Akufo-Addo urged voters in the region to support his vice president, Mahamudu Bawumia, who will be the NPP’s candidate in the upcoming election.

He promised that a vote for Bawumia will ensure the continuation of his policies and development projects.

The British government said on Thursday it had imposed its biggest sanctions package against Russia for 18 months, targeting people involved in the Ukraine war, African mercenary groups, and a nerve agent attack on British soil.

The foreign ministry said it had sanctioned 56 bodies and individuals, aiming to hurt Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war effort and Russia’s “malign activity globally”.

Among them were 10 entities based in China said to be supplying machinery and components for the Russian military.

“Today’s measures will continue to push back on the Kremlin’s corrosive foreign policy, undermining Russia’s attempts to foster instability across Africa and disrupting the supply of vital equipment for Putin’s war machine,” British foreign minister David Lammy said.

The Russian embassy in London did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Most of the measures were aimed at companies based in Russia, China, Turkey, and Kazakhstan, accused of aiding the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the supply of machine tools, microelectronics, and components for drones.

They include firms that European intelligence sources believe to be part of a Russian attempt to establish a weapons programme in China, according to a Reuters report in September.

Britain also said the latest sanctions would address Russian activity in Libya, Mali, and the Central African Republic by targeting three private mercenary groups with links to the Kremlin, including the Kremlin-controlled Africa Corps, and 11 individuals.

Amongst the individuals sanctioned was Denis Sergeev, whom British police have charged over the murder attempt on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the southern English city of Salisbury in March 2018.
Sergeev, who Britain said was acting under the alias Sergey Fedotov, was one of three Russians said by Britain to have been GRU military intelligence officers suspected of carrying out the attack.

Last month, a public inquiry into the death of a woman who was accidentally poisoned by the nerve agent heard that Skripal believed Mr Putin himself had ordered the Novichok attack.

Moscow has repeatedly rejected British accusations that it was involved.

(Reuters/NAN)