‘MADE A MISTAKE’: Elon Musk’s father blames stress for son’s feud with Trump

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Elon Musk’s father is speaking out on his son’s social media feud with U.S. President Donald Trump, and it appears Errol Musk doesn’t have a ton of faith in the SpaceX billionaire.

Errol claimed that exhaustion and stress led to the two men’s nasty back-and-forth, but tipped the scales in Trump’s favour, claiming Elon “made a mistake” to try to go toe-to-toe with the president.

“They’ve been under a lot of stress for five months. And it gives them a break,” Errol told Russia media, according to the New York Post.

“You know, they’ve had to get rid of all the opposition, try and put the country back on track, and do normal things and so forth,” Errol continued.

“They’re very tired and stressed. And so you can expect something like this. It’s not unusual.”

That said, now that tantrums appear to be over and cooler heads have perhaps prevailed, Errol seemed to be on Team Trump.

“Trump will prevail. He’s the president,” the elder Musk said.

“He was elected as the president, so Elon made a mistake, I think. But he’s tired. He’s stressed.”

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Elon had slowly been stepping away from his role with the Trump administration over the last few weeks over the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” due to the billionaire’s concerns about its impact on the deficit.

On May 29, he announced on X that his “scheduled time as a special government employee comes to an end,” and Musk and Trump made it official the following day with a press conference to make the end of the Tesla CEO’s White House tenure.

But a few days later, during an interview on CBS’s Sunday Morning Show, Musk attacked the bill, calling it a “disgusting abomination.”

Then on June 5, Musk went off, declaring on X that without his help, “Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

Musk even appeared to back impeaching Trump and then dropped a since-deleted “big bomb” claiming that the president is in the Epstein files and that’s the “real reason they have not been made public.”

Trump didn’t sit on his hands, and suggested that Musk had “lost his mind” and gone “crazy.”

There were also reports about Musk’s increasing drug use and addiction, which the richest man in the world denied.

Trump even threatened to sever lucrative federal contracts with Musk’s companies, while the tech mogul suggested he would decommission the Dragon spacecraft, the government’s main method of getting into orbit — but he quickly walked back the threat.

“Elon wants to stick to the principles of not giving in to the Democrats (and) their stupid ideas,” Errol said.

“It’s normal, it’s just a small thing, (it) will be over tomorrow.”

Elon has said he is open to patching things up with Trump, but the president said he’s “not really interested.”

“I’m not thinking about Elon. You know, I just wish him well.”