Musk’s father says billionaire Elon made mistake, bets ‘Trump will prevail’
Errol Musk claims stress was behind public spat with the US president, dismissing feud as a ‘small thing’
The row between Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and US President Donald Trump was triggered by months of intense stress on both sides, and the public battle between Trump and the billionaire donor needs to stop, Musk’s father said on Monday.
Musk and Trump began exchanging insults last week on social media with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO describing the president’s sweeping tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.
Asked whether he thought his son had made a mistake by engaging in a public clash with the president, Errol Musk said people were sometimes unable to think as clearly as they should “in the heat of the moment”.
“They’ve had five months of intense stress,” he said at a conference in Moscow organised by conservative Russian tycoons.
“With all the opposition cleared and two people left in the arena, all they have ever done is get rid of everything and now they are trying to get rid of each other – well that has to stop.”
Asked how it would end, Errol Musk said: “Oh, it will end on a good note – very soon.”