Errol Musk says son Elon has ‘PTSD' as he lands in Moscow for meeting with far-right figures
While his son battles with the President of the United States, Errol Musk has landed in Moscow to mingle with the Kremlin's ideological vanguard.
The 78-year-old father of Elon Musk is attending the Forum of the Future 2050, a far-right Russian conference hosted by the Tsargrad Institute and led by ultranationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin, according to local newspaper Kommersant.
'I am eager to meet everyone. As far as I know, Russians are among the most intelligent people on the planet. It would be foolish not to ask their opinion on all sorts of issues,' Musk Snr told Russian state media outlet TASS.
The event includes panel sessions with titles like 'The Race for Mars' and 'The Battle for Hearts and Minds: The Ideology of Sovereign Russia.'
Speakers include Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, and state TV anchor Ekaterina Andreeva.
Errol is a former South African engineer and politician who has previously expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, igniting theories about his son's alleged links to the superpower.
But Errol has distanced himself from his son in recent years and told the public to ignore Elon's often erratic comments on world politics.
Meanwhile Elon has called his father a 'terrible human being' and described him as being critical and verbally abusive during his childhood.
Dad weighs in on Elon's meltdown
Errol Musk claimed that his son lashed out at Donald Trump because he had developed 'PTSD' from several months in the spotlight. On top of being the figurehead for several major companies, Musk Jnr took it upon himself to 'rehabilitate' the US government from decades of bloat.
But his father says he's made a massive mistake going against the US president, who was the most likely to come out on top once the dust settles.
'So at the moment, Elon is inclined to say that he's made a mistake,' he told Russian press after landing.
'Elon made a mistake, I think, but he's tired, he's stressed.
'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.
'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.'
His father says the fact Trump's bill was pushed through while he was still in the process of DOGE-ing everything in sight rubbed Elon the wrong way. So much so that he started tweeting about his former ally's alleged links to Jeffery Epstein from his X account.
'Recently a new bill was put out — and Elon is still in the 'Let's get everything right' mode,' Errol continued.
'He said, 'No, we must not include in such a bill more of this Democrat stupid schemes and money for them, it's not right'.
'But unfortunately, he doesn't realise that in order to get their votes in the Senate and the Congress, Trump has to do that.…'
Musk Snr: 'Foolish not to admire Putin'
In April, Musk Snr told BBC Russia it 'would be foolish not to admire Putin,' whom he called 'a strong leader.'
The elder Musk's trip to Moscow coincides with an increasingly fraught chapter in his son's public life.
Elon Musk has entered open conflict with President Donald Trump, trading barbs with his former ally in an increasingly bizarre online brawl.
After stepping down from his informal role as an adviser to Trump's administration last month, Elon has turned sharply critical of the president.
At the same time, Elon's posture on the Ukraine war has grown closer to Moscow's messaging. Once hailed for deploying Starlink terminals to Ukraine, Elonhas since accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of losing popular support and claimed S military aid was fuelling a 'never-ending draft meat grinder'.
Those remarks have earned him praise from Russian state media and certain Duma members.
On June 6, Dmitry Novikov, deputy chair of Russia's foreign affairs committee, even floated the idea of granting Musk Jnr political asylum as rumours swirl over his future in the US.
Hi company SpaceX holds contracts worth billions with NASA and the Pentagon, including a $1.8 billion deal to build a classified satellite system for US intelligence.
While he has demonstrated he is pro-US, his shifting alignment, coupled with the symbolic presence of his father in Moscow, makes the situation all the more delicate for Washington's defence establishment.
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