Elon Musk attacks Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, says her donations are ‘making the world a worse place’

Elon Musk has renewed his criticism of billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, questioning the impact of the more than $26 billion she has donated to charities since her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

According to the source, Scott has donated around $26.3 billion through her organisation, Yield Giving, supporting nearly 2,700 non-profit organisations.

Since ending her 25-year marriage to Bezos in 2019, she has pledged to give away the majority of her fortune "until the safe is empty" to support social progress.

Musk criticised Scott's philanthropy in a post on X after replying to a user who wrote: "Unfortunately, she's spending it making the world a worse place."

The Tesla and SpaceX chief responded: "Sadly yes."

The latest exchange follows previous criticism from Musk. In 2024, he posted: "Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse should be listed among 'Reasons that Western Civilization died.'"

The post was later deleted but had already been widely shared.

According to the source, Musk also claimed in 2022 that Scott was donating to political action committees posing as charities.

Scott's charitable work has made her one of the world's largest individual donors. In 2023 alone, she donated $7 billion, accounting for almost one-third of all major charitable gifts made in the United States that year.

Her donations have supported universities, climate organisations and groups serving underserved communities.