When Elon Musk called his father 'Evil' and said: "In my experience, there is nothing you …

Elon Musk’s dad Errol Musk recently said that the US is doomed and will go the South Africa way. He made this comment after he was told the Whites may become a minority in the US. Incidentally, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has not shared an amicable relationship with his father. In an interview with Rolling Stone a few years ago, Elon Musk characterised his father as someone who “will plan evil”.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has frequently expressed his disapproval of his father, who had ties to the apartheid regime of South Africa and has faced multiple criminal accusations. Musk described Errol as “such a terrible human being” and claimed that his father had committed “almost every crime you can possibly think of.” He added, “My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done. It’s so terrible, you can’t believe it.”

Past controversies around Errol Musk

In 1998, Errol Musk admitted that he killed three people insisting that it was an act of self-defence. Initially he was arrested but was later released after the charges were dropped. The incident was dded to the long list of controversies surrounding him which further fulled Elon Musk’s distrust.

Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasised that his father’s words cannot be trusted. Reflecting on his attempts to mend their relationship, Musk said, “In my experience, there is nothing you can do. Nothing, nothing. I wish. I’ve tried everything. I tried threats, rewards, intellectual arguments, emotional arguments, everything to try to change my father for the better, and he, no way, it just got worse.”



Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a started relationship with his father Errol Musk. The their relationship has long been a topic of public interest. The controversial statements made by Errol in the past still continue to cast a shadow over their family dynamics offering insight into the personal challenges faced by one of the world’s most influential tech entrepreneurs.

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esla CEO Elon Musk moved a step closer to becoming the world's first trillionaire after his net worth surged to over $700 billion on December 20. According to Forbes’s Billionaire Index, the Tesla chief executive's net worth climbed to $749 billion after the Delaware Supreme Court reinstated his 2018 pay package, once worth $56 billion. With this, Musk has become the world’s first-ever person with worth over $700 billion. After a legal battle of nearly two years, the court ruled that rescinding the pay package left the Tesla head "uncompensated for his time and efforts over a period of six years".