This week, Taylor Swift became an extremely rare person when she was selected as TIME magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year. Naturally, now that she’s entered the ranks of notable individuals such as Barack Obama, Greta Thunberg, the late Pope John Paul II, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the 2022 POTR, Elon Musk responded to it with a troll-like statement.

Under Swift’s tweet on Thursday (Dec. 7) thanking the magazine for the accolade, the beleaguered and blustery CEO of Tesla/Space X/X tweeted a congrats message. However, Musk being Musk, he also included a lighthearted caution about the risk/reward nature of the TIME title for the worldwide pop sensation.

Musk tweeted, “I know from experience that there is a chance of a drop in popularity following this award.”

Fair enough, Swift is fresh off the first leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour, her box office-shattering film adaptation of the tour, and months of frantic media coverage surrounding her romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

When the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, won the TIME award in 2021, things were slightly different. According to the magazine, Musk has the ability to “solve the globe’s most intractable challenges” and “driving society’s most daring and disruptive transformations” through his rocket company Space X and category-leading electric car company Tesla.

In contrast to Swift, however, Musk’s 2023 has been largely terrible so far. His co-signing of an antisemitic tweet on his X platform (for which he later retracted and expressed regret), his promotion of the absurd and repeatedly debunked Pizzagate conspiracy, and his recent vulgar advice to the plethora of large corporations that have removed their advertising from the listing X platform to “go f–k yourself”

It didn’t seem like Swift had replied to Musk’s tweet at the time of publication.