Elon Musk’s father calls Putin a “real man” and a man of reason
5 November 2025 14:41
Elon Musk’s father Errol Musk called Russian dictator Vladimir Putin a “real man” and a man of reason.
This is reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to Russian propaganda media.
“I watched his speeches many times, long before I came here, just out of curiosity. Because he sometimes appeared on RT and also spoke at international meetings and so on. I listened to him, and he always struck me as a very balanced and calm person. He doesn’t get hot, he doesn’t talk, he doesn’t get rude, and he doesn’t do anything like that,” said Musk in an interview.
“Like I said, he’s a real man, you know? I could say I’d like to be on his team or have him on my team. I don’t want him on any other team. We need him on our team,” he added.
Errol Graham Musk: what is known about him
Errol Graham Musk is a 79-year-old businessman, engineer, and politician, Elon’s own father, whose biography is still little known to the general public. This summer, Musk Sr. became an honored guest of the Future Forum 2050 in Russia. The billionaire’s father was fascinated by Moscow, comparing it to ancient Rome, and immediately became a hero of Russian newspapers, social media, and TV channels.
The most controversial part of Errol Musk’s biography is probably related to his family life and relationships with his family. In total, he had three marriages and seven children, and his first wife was Elon’s mother, Canadian-born model May Musk, Miss South Africa 1969, who later appeared on the covers for half a century. They have three children together: Elon, Kimball, and Tosca. All of them succeeded in their respective fields: one became an inventor and the richest man in the world, another a successful restaurateur, and their sister a director and film producer.
The billionaire said that his father behaved like a typical dictator, calling his son a weakling and insulting him even after a serious school incident (which put Elon in the hospital). Musk himself believes that his subsequent career took off despite this traumatic experience, but Errol Musk is unlikely to share this opinion. In any case, he willingly shares with journalists his recipes for raising a billionaire (keeping up with his ex-wife), omitting gloomy episodes from his son’s childhood in his stories and noting only that Elon is “not like most of his peers.”
In recent years, Elon Musk has not spoken out about his father, but in an
interview with Rolling Stone, he called him a “terrible person” and said: “You have no idea how bad he is. Every crime you can imagine, he committed. All the bad things you can think of, he did. You just can’t imagine how horrible he is.”
Now 79 years old, Errol Musk is simultaneously trying to gain media fame on the basis of the Musk brand and construct an ideologically independent image, emphasizing the fundamental difference between himself and Elon.
“Errol Musk is an opponent of liberalism, globalism and political correctness. He believes that the West is weak and has lost itself. Russia, in his opinion, is a country of order, strength and traditions. In this sense, Errol expresses the sentiments of a certain part of Western society.”
Even if Errol Musk has no real political weight (there is no arguing about this), in a sense he is de facto an instrument of American soft power, capable of exerting at least a minimal influence on the climate of international relations. On the other hand, its scandalous and semi-marginal status in the United States and around the world may offset any positive effect of “alternative diplomacy.”
