Elon Musk‘s father Errol has revealed his son’s true political leanings as being ‘dead center’ despite him backing Trump.
The father of the Tesla CEO said neither Musk nor Donald Trump are part of the far-right. ‘Elon is dead center,’ Errol, 78, told Times radio.
Errol added that he and his son don’t talk about US politics all the time but that he was trying to ‘support him in every way I can’, with Musk ‘doing the right thing’.
Despite Errol’s claim that Musk, 53, is ‘dead center’, the tech mogul attended several Trump rallies and voiced his support for the former president, going as far as hosting a $1million lottery for voters now under investigation by the Philadelphia DA.
Musk, the world’s richest man, has reportedly donated at least $119million to his political action committee America PAC, an organization which collects funds for elections and has been used by Musk to support Trump.
The father of the Tesla CEO said neither Elon Musk (right) nor Donald Trump (left) are part of the far-right. ‘Elon is dead center,’ Errol, 78, told Times radio
Elon Musk’s father Errol (pictured) has revealed his son’s true political leanings as being ‘dead center’ despite him backing Trump
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures as he steps on stage during a rally for former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024
According to the America PAC website, 16 people, including four in Pennsylvania, have received the $1million awards. The winners were reportedly randomly selected among those who signed a petition pledging support for free speech and gun rights.
The offer was limited to registered voters in one of seven states that will likely decide the outcome of the Nov. 5 election – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Musk gave away the first $1million at an October 19 America PAC rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s state capital.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, sued Musk and his pro-Trump political action committee, America PAC, last week, calling the $1million awards to registered voters in battleground states ‘an illegal lottery scheme.’
Krasner had asked that the daily giveaways be shut down, but Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta declined to do so after a daylong hearing on Monday featuring Musk’s lawyers and prosecutors.
Musk repeatedly voiced his support for Trump. During a rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden, he said: ‘As you can see, I’m not just MAGA, I’m dark gothic MAGA.
‘We’re gonna get the government off your back and out of your pocket book. The future is going to be amazing.’
He added: ‘This is a real battle, this is a real election battle. So you need to get your friends and family to vote. Make sure they vote early this is important. Make the margin of victory so big, that “you know what” can’t happen.’
Musk has donated more than $70million to Trump’s campaign and echoed the former president’s concerns on mail-in voting, saying mail ballots should not be accepted in the future.
He also addressed the January 6, 2021 insurrection during a town hall event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, saying that Trump wasn’t responsible for the violence as he ‘did actually tell people not to be violent’ and to instead protest ‘peacefully and patriotically’.
But back in 2016 when Trump stood for election the first time, Musk said that Trump was ‘not the right guy’ to be president because he ‘doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States’.
Musk and his father Errol, a mining tycoon and former politician, have repaired their relationship in recent years, after Musk called his father a ‘terrible human being’ and capable of ‘evil’ in 2017.
But now Errol has praised his son for being ‘smarter than anybody I have ever met’ and being ‘sensible’.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024
Errol Musk, 78, is pictured above holding his son Elon when he was a baby
Musk’s difficult relationship with his father was detailed in the SpaceX founder’s biography, Elon Musk. Musk moved in with him aged 10 for seven years, a decision he later regretted.
Growing up in South Africa, Musk claims that his father guilt tripped him into leaving his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca to keep him company.
Musk calls his father a ‘volatile fabulist’ who had a Jekyll and Hyde personality. As Musk puts it, ‘It was mental torture. He sure knew how to make anything terrible.’
After Musk was beaten by some children at his school and left in hospital, Errol sided with the kid who pummeled Musk’s face.
Errol supposedly said, ‘That boy had just lost his father to suicide and Elon called him stupid. How could I possibly blame that child?’
After getting home from hospital, Musk had to stand for an hour while his father screamed at him he was an ‘idiot’ and ‘worthless.’
Errol had a relationship with Musk’s mother that was ‘filled with drama.’ He repeatedly proposed but she ‘didn’t trust him’ and then found out he was cheating on her.
After learning of his infidelity, she reportedly cried for a week and didn’t eat, causing her to lose 10 pounds in weight, Isaacson claims.
During a 2022 interview with an Australia radio station, Errol said that he was not proud of his son and that he preferred to drive a Bentley or a Rolls Royce rather than a Tesla.
But just a year later, he defended his son’s controversial appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast in which he famously smoked weed with the comedian.
Errol’s comments about the election come after Musk’s mother Maye spoke out about the ‘malicious and dishonest’ Democrats after leaving the party to join her son in support of the GOP and Trump.
The 76-year-old model, who has become more outspoken about issues in the US of late, says the party’s treatment of her son made Maye reconsider how she felt about them.
Elon Musk’s mother Maye is speaking out on the ‘malicious and dishonest’ Democrat party after leaving to join her son in support of the GOP and Donald Trump
Kimbal Musk (right) cut off all contact with his father. Kimbal is pictured above with Elon and their mother Maye
Her news diet when she became an American citizen was full of typically liberal networks like MSNBC and CNN. ‘But then, they’d also say Elon is terrible, and I was thinking, why are they lying about Elon?,’ she said.
Maye continued: ‘They really just cut into my mind that they just didn’t know what they were doing,’ she said.
She now believes that the party could be lying about everything to hurt the U.S.
‘Then when I resigned from the Democrats, I just felt such a relief that I’m not part of the party that’s now malicious and dishonest. And my biggest fear is the fraud they are committing at the voting booths,’ she told Fox Business.
It’s a long way from when she became a citizen in 1996 and joined the left.
‘When I became a US citizen, of course, I was Democratic because they give you that option and because they’re the good kind people who care about America,’ Maye said.
She is worried about her son now that he has joined forces with Trump, is funding a PAC supporting the former president and running a lot of his GOTV operations.
