The high-profile feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump has taken another twist, with Elon’s father, Errol Musk suggesting his son is suffering from “PTSD from the White House.”
Errol admitted Elon may have “made a mistake” by backing Trump’s re-election, reports the Daily Mail,
Speaking in Moscow, where he is attending a forum organised by close aides of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Errol Musk said the Elon is stressed and exhausted from months of political tension. Errol likened the public fallout between Elon and Trump to a failing marriage.
“So at the moment, Elon is inclined to say that he's made a mistake,” Errol told Russian outlet Izvestia, adding, “Trump will prevail. He's the president, he was elected as the president.”
The clash between the world's richest man and the MAGA supremo began after Musk, who donated millions to Trump’s 2024 campaign and later took a role in the White House, openly criticised a sweeping new tax and spending bill. Musk also stirred controversy after claiming Trump’s name appeared in files related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a claim he posted on his platform X before later deleting it. The White House dismissed the allegation.
Over the weekend, Trump said the relationship was over. “I would assume so, yeah,” he said in a phone interview with NBC, adding, “I'm too busy doing other things.” He warned Musk not to back Democratic candidates in upcoming elections, saying, “If he does, he'll have to pay the consequences for that."
Amid the fallout, Errol Musk has arrived in Moscow to speak at the Future Forum 2050. Russian figures have even offered asylum to Elon. “You are respected in Russia,” wrote former space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin. “If you encounter insurmountable problems in the US, come to us and become one of us.”
Speaking to Russian state-backed Tsargrad TV, Errol said, “They’ve had five months at least of intense repair work, removing all the spurious opposition, all the crazies and so on. They've been under a lot of stress.”
“He’s tired, he’s stressed,” he added. “Five months of continuous stress, continuous, continuous stress, stress, stress. And then in the end, it's just him and Trump left… They still don't know what to do, so they fight with each other until they can come to normal conditions.”
Errol described Elon as “not a great politician,” saying, “He's a great tech innovator and so forth. But his politics is, as I've said before, is a swimming pool with no bottom, it's a swimming pool with no sides.”
Errol Musk seemed hopeful for a resolution. “It’s just a small thing. It'll be over tomorrow,” he said.
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