{"id":371,"date":"2025-06-10T00:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2025-06-10T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:07:29","slug":"elon-musks-father-urged-him-to-mend-fences-with-trump-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Father Urged Him To Mend Fences With Trump: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s father, Errol Musk, is offering advice as his son navigates a heated falling-out with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Errol said he had sent a message to Elon, urging him to mend the situation, but expressed confidence to reporters that the two would reconcile soon, The Daily Beast reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI did send him a message\u2026 telling him, make sure this fizzles out,\u201d he told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/united-states\/2025\/06\/06\/elon-musk-s-dad-on-trump-vs-elon-feud-and-epstein-accusations\">Al Arabiya English<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday, adding the pair would \u201cof course\u201d reconcile and it was nothing more than \u201celephant bulls or alphas having a go at each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, he expressed disappointment over his son\u2019s reactionary responses to Trump\u2014particularly Elon\u2019s explosive claim that Trump was named in the FBI\u2019s files related to alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have no idea what he was thinking\u2026 I can only imagine that\u2019s just a silly mistake,\u201d he said, offering that his son was likely just under an undue amount of stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon has since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/musk-of-92142\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deleted<\/a>&nbsp;that post, perhaps in an attempt to bury the hatchet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk\u2019s post said:&nbsp;\u201cTime to drop the really big bomb:&nbsp;@realDonaldTrump&nbsp;is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING:  Elon Musk just deleted this post: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FOoLEDe5fs\">pic.twitter.com\/FOoLEDe5fs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krassenstein\/status\/1931302480656163043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The deletion also comes after others have vigorously smacked down the accusation as false, including Epstein\u2019s lawyer at the time of his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney David Schoen said in an X post that Epstein told him he had nothing inappropriate or damaging on the future president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!\u201d the attorney wrote on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Michael Cohen, Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer who had a falling out with the president during his first term, also refuted Musk\u2019s allegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have extensive knowledge of Trump being by his side for almost a decade and a half,\u201d Cohen told MSNBC on Friday. \u201cI\u2019m telling you it\u2019s nonsense. To the best of my knowledge and everything that I know, it\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite his disappointment, Errol Musk said he\u2019s not overly concerned about the escalating feud between his son, now a special government employee, and his former close friend. He downplayed the dispute as nothing more than a clash between two \u201calphas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The father said the fiery, at times hostile exchange between his son and the president was \u201ca bit silly,\u201d fueled by the pressures of a demanding few months in power. He predicted the tension would \u201cfizzle out in a few days,\u201d despite Elon Musk\u2019s recent call for Trump\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen people have been through a great deal of stress\u2026 eventually people reach a point where they lash out,\u201d Musk said. \u201cEven at the highest levels, people struggle to find common ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk and his father have had a strained relationship for years, with the Tesla CEO famously calling him a \u201cterrible human being\u201d in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Politico&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/08\/musk-trump-ceasefire-call-00393527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;exclusively on Sunday that aides for both Trump and Musk have been speaking behind the scenes as a means of attempting to resolve the spat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe shaky detente in the social media strife between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk is holding following a call between representatives for both sides Friday, according to two White House officials,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s stopped posting, but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s happy,\u201d one of the officials told the outlet about Trump not posting about Musk on his Truth Social platform. \u201cThe future of their relationship is totally uncertain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s father, Errol Musk, is offering advice as his son navigates a heated falling-out with President Donald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}