Elon Musk’s old man is offering his son some words of wisdom as he goes through a pretty heated breakup with President Donald Trump.
Errol Musk, the tech billionaire’s father, on Friday said he messaged his son urging him to fix the mess but reassured reporters that it won’t be long before the duo will kiss and make up.
“I did send him a message… telling him, make sure this fizzles out,” he told Al Arabiya English Friday, adding the pair would “of course” reconcile and it was nothing more than “elephant bulls or alphas having a go at each other.”
Still, he was disappointed with his son’s reactive responses to the president, including when Musk dropped a bombshell claiming that Trump was included in the FBI’s files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“I have no idea what he was thinking… I can only imagine that’s just a silly mistake,” he said, calling Musk’s post a result of stress.
Despite his fatherly disappointment, he’s not that worried about the heated feud between the special government employee and his ex-best friend. The exchange, he said, was little more than a clash of “alphas.”
The two went at each other’s throats on Thursday over Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill‚” ending a four-month long bromance that rocked the White House and stirred up some unexpected scandals. From Musk’s frequent drug use to his unprecedented power over the federal government, the world’s richest man left the Trump administration after a 130-tenure that not even he could have predicted.
According to Musk’s father, the pair’s heated, threatening, and at-times vicious exchange was just “a bit silly” and driven by an exhausting past few months in power. He added that it will all “fizzle out in a few days” despite the fact that Musk recently called for Trump’s impeachment.
“When people have been through a great deal of stress… eventually people reach a point where they lash out,” Musk said. “Even at the highest levels, people struggle to find common ground.”
Musk’s dad then launched into an existential analysis of the online spat, quoting the biblical line: “let the innocent person cast the first stone.”
The so-called “silly” feud comes as Congress prepares to vote for a “Big Beautiful Bill‚" that could upend the lives of rural Americans and cut off their access to lifesaving health insurance.
Musk and his father have long been estranged, and the Tesla billionaire called him a “terrible human being” in 2017.
In Walter Isaacson’s book about the pair, Elon Musk, he wrote that Musk found out over email on Father’s Day 2022 that his dad had a child with his former stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout. Musk’s father was married to Bezuidenhout’s mother for 18 years and had two children before their divorce.
“The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce,” said Musk’s dad. “If I could have another child I would. I can’t see any reason not to.”
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Musk has at least 14 children, including his son X ÆA-12, who was a regular at the White House before Musk and Trump’s relationship blew up.
