He also pushed back on suggestions he supports “far right” views.
Minton Beddoes said both data and her own experience of living in the UK told a different story to the image portrayed by the trillionaire in his X posts.
“You come see my country that I live in all the time,” she said when Musk offered to take her on a tour of the country.
Asked when he had last visited the UK, Musk said “a few years ago”.
The trillionaire was also asked about his sharing of a film on X reportedly banned in Germany for its violence and anti-migrant message, external.
“My partner is… she’s half Indian, and I have four children with her,” Musk said of his partner Shivon Zillis, an executive at his brain tech firm Neuralink.
“One of them was named after a famous Indian physicist, so I would say I’m not racist.”
Musk also said there were “senior executives of all races” at his companies, adding: “I don’t think there’s any racism there”.
But when pressed on whether he was “anti-Muslim”, he was less defiant.
“If people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that,” he said.
“I’m against rape and murder, I’m against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we’ve come to accept in the West,” he continued, criticising the media for not understanding or reflecting this.
