My son Elon called me 'pure evil' when he was a raging liberal. Now he's Trump's First Buddy, I get to hear just what Donald's going to do to his enemies! Musk senior reveals all about his billionaire son in no-holds barred interview

You'd beryllium hard pushed to picture Elon Musk oregon his straight-talking South African begetter Errol arsenic peculiarly affectional men.

Yet earlier this year, begetter and son, who spectacularly fell retired erstwhile Elon was 'a super-Leftie liberal' (his 78-year-old dad's words), shared a hug for the archetypal clip successful galore years.

The embrace, which happened successful March astatine a enactment to people the archetypal palmy trial formation of Elon's rocket Starship, took spot successful beforehand of respective 100 of the tech billionaire's unit astatine his abstraction exploration institution SpaceX successful Boca Chica, Texas.

'There were astir 300 radical and everyone was having a bully clip due to the fact that the motorboat was rather a large success,' says Errol. 

'Then, Elon stops the event. He's a small spot taller than maine now, but helium puts his limb astir maine and says, 'This is my dad, everyone. He taught maine everything I cognize astir engineering.' He was beauteous emotional.

'I was rather overwhelmed myself. I said to the crowd, 'No, no, Elon taught himself.' I had to accidental that.'

He throws his caput backmost and laughs. 'My 2nd wife, Heide, and our daughters were with us. They were successful tears. We each were.'

Errol is, aft all, the begetter Elon erstwhile condemned arsenic 'pure evil'.

'I deliberation for the archetypal clip Elon was accepting who helium is,' says Errol now. 'Until recently, he's been a benignant of quality connected a stage. 

'When you travel from South Africa, Lefties deliberation you're a Nazi. To succeed, you request to beryllium accepted by them truthful my sons, [Elon and younger member Kimbal, a hugely palmy restaurateur], started to go these flaming liberals – turning distant from South Africa and their roots, which included me.

'Finally, Elon was embracing his practice and his destiny.'

Four months later, Elon, the richest antheral connected the satellite whose formidable concern empire includes the electrical car institution Tesla (worth much than $1trillion), SpaceX (which has 24,000 satellites circling Earth) and 'X', formerly Twitter, threw his enactment down Donald Trump successful his combat for the White House.

Today helium stands arsenic the President-elect's 'First Buddy' having spent astir each time since Trump's predetermination triumph astatine his Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida. Elon has besides accompanied Trump to New York City and Washington DC and adjacent joined his telephone with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Or, arsenic his dada says, 'Although Elon's not vice-president, he's similar Trump's right-hand man. With Trump successful office, the Ukraine warfare volition extremity very, precise soon, possibly adjacent this year.'

Errol speaks with authority. He has spent respective months successful the States successful the past twelvemonth and shares emails with his lad who, helium tells me, 'Does his enactment successful the air. His bureau is his jet. He has a masseuse and a cook who question with him. The pitchy wrong is similar being successful the finest five-star lounge imaginable. It enables him to beryllium successful interaction with everybody astir the satellite each the time.'

But Elon's power reaches acold beyond satellite Earth. 'Elon is capable to power connected and disconnected the WiFi [from his Starlink outer network] to the Ukraine,' helium says. 'Last twelvemonth helium refused to fto Starlink run implicit the Crimea due to the fact that of a program to descend the Russian fleet successful their location base. Putin thanked him. So, Elon has tremendous powerfulness with Starlink.

'I'm definite Elon, Trump and others volition find a solution.'

Errol past spoke to his eldest lad a fewer days aft the election. A fervid Trump protagonist himself, Errol was cock-a-hoop that helium was backmost successful power. He tells maine helium spoke to Elon for 'a fewer minutes'.

'A fewer minutes of his clip is worthy 24 hours oregon much of different people's time,' helium says. 'I was saying, 'Oh my God, this is incredible. You've done specified a bully job.' He said, 'Thank you for everything you've done.' Then we spoke astir the household and Tesla.'

Tesla's worth has soared by much than 20 per cent successful the past month.

'Elon's assets are present $80billion much than determination were, but helium wouldn't beryllium the antheral helium is contiguous if it wasn't for me,' says Errol without a hint of irony. 'I look astatine Elon present and accidental he's a amended mentation of me. He's little mercurial. People who cognize america accidental he's a clone. He is precisely similar me.'

Errol is talking to maine from his fabulous unfastened program location connected the seashore of the Western Cape, South Africa, wherever the room is littered with cards from and photographs of his 7 children and galore grandchildren.

'Sixteen oregon 17,' helium says, smiling. 'I suffer count.'

This Christmas 3 of his daughters – Elon's sister Tosca and 2 half-sisters – and their families 'are coming en masse' to observe with him.

Rather than digging into the household turkey, Elon volition beryllium engaged stripping the abdominous from the 'bloated' US national authorities arsenic helium and chap billionaire and erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy caput the recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which volition people $500 cardinal successful cuts.

Trump calls it the 'Manhattan Project of our time', the sanction fixed to the programme to make atomic weapons.

'These organisations are bloated, retired of control,' says Errol. 'But it's not conscionable astir trimming staff. In engineering, we person what is called clip and question studies, making definite things are done successful a amended way.

'Elon thinks woke is simply a joke. He's said it's got to end. I hide his nonstop words, but he's starting a warfare connected woke. He says woke has taken his oldest lad from him.'

He's referring to Elon's trans girl Vivian Jenna Wilson, who he's said connected 'X' has been 'killed by the woke caput virus'.

Wilson, who sought tribunal support successful California to alteration her sanction and denounced her begetter successful 2022, has said she plans to permission the States aft Trump's victory.

'Elon didn't walk overmuch clip with his children who are present successful their 20s – not similar I did with him and his brother,' says Errol, with a benignant of 'more-fool-him' shingle of his head.

Elon, whose parents divorced successful 1979, began surviving with Errol – a affluent erstwhile technologist who besides portion owned an emerald excavation – astatine his stud workplace wherever 'pretty women were coming and going' from the property of nine.

He was 12 years aged erstwhile his brother, Kimbal, joined him. Their colourful, live-life-with-no-limits puerility was 1 of backstage jets, boats, horses and many, galore women. How many?

'After 200 you halt counting,' says Errol. 'If you spot an ocean, transverse it. If you spot a lake, water-ski connected it. If you spot a mountain, ascent it. Let's spot however precocious it is up there. I'd accidental I passed that cognition to my sons. But Elon's older children don't cognize him.'

Elon has 5 older children with archetypal woman writer Justine Wilson – 20-year aged twins and 18-year-old triplet sons. 

He besides has 3 younger ones with his ex-partner, vocalist Grimes – a four-year-old lad X, a girl nicknamed Y, who turns 3 adjacent month, and two-year-old lad Tau.

Elon, who similar Errol is passionate astir pro-natalism, a question that encourages larger families successful the look of perceived colonisation decline, is besides a begetter to two-year-old twins and a babe with Shivon Zillis, a 38-year-old enforcement astatine his braintech institution Neuralink.

'I'm arrogant I took them [his 2 eldest sons] to schoolhouse and fetched them each day,' says Errol. 'They are who they are due to the fact that I spent each time with them.

'I've told Elon I'm gladsome he's taking small X astir everyplace though it benignant of worries maine due to the fact that he's taking him to big events and he's lone four. But helium wants to marque definite he's much hands connected with this one. He wants to ensure, I think, that he's got an heir helium tin beryllium on.'

Errol tells maine his lad is 'black and white' with nary 'grey' areas.

'Elon utilized to beryllium specified a flaming Democrat,' says Errol. 'That's wherefore my narration with my sons changed. It started with differences implicit Donald Trump connected my 70th birthday.'

Elon, freshly divorced from British histrion Talulah Riley, was besotted with Amber Heard, erstwhile helium hired a swish edifice successful Cape Town with his member Kimbal to observe their father's day successful 2016 with 40 guests including Hollywoood royalty specified arsenic Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence on with Amber.

'They came to Cape Town connected backstage jets. These were the radical Elon liked to beryllium with – bleeding heart, super-Leftist people.' It was conscionable earlier the US statesmanlike predetermination and idiosyncratic said to Errol, 'I judge you enactment Trump.'

He remembers the question triggered laughter. He answered, 'Actually I do.'

After lunch, helium says, some sons were precise upset. 'I've ne'er heard my lad Kimbal curse but helium swore that day, 'Are you f****** stupid? How tin you perchance accidental that to these people? It was afterwards that Elon gave an interrogation saying I was evil. He'd been brainwashed into reasoning that was the lone mode helium could support those friends.'

In the pursuing 5 years, Errol went to the States 'at slightest twice' to talk to his sons. 'They were conscionable angry. Since then, they've wholly changed their tune. Not lone reversed but reversed and tally close implicit maine successful that direction.'

Errol was archetypal alert of the oversea alteration successful his sons' governmental allegiances astatine the extremity of 2021 erstwhile President Biden failed to invitation Elon to a four-day electrical car manufacturers' seminar astatine the White House. 'There was speech astir turning the United States into an electrical car state by 2035 and helium invited each the different companies – General Motors, Ford – but not Tesla.

'Biden's specified an idiot. He announced that GM was the starring electrical car shaper successful the U.S. They'd built thing similar 26 cars that year. Elon was truly shocked. Tesla had built a cardinal cars that year. He started making governmental statements. 

'I contacted him successful aboriginal 2022 and said, 'You bash realise you're making beauteous outlandish governmental statements? Do you person bully bodyguards? They'll termination you successful this business.' He listened.'

Today, Errol tells me, Elon's location successful Boca Chica, Texas, is constructed from 'two sorts of knock-ups from the factory. Each has a small kitchen, a small lounge and 2 tiny bedrooms.

'They enactment them adjacent to each different with a 9 oregon 10 ft spread successful betwixt wherever they've lain immoderate benignant of level and acceptable up a barbecue and chairs. There's a small transportation extortion implicit it.

'That's wherever they beryllium successful the evening. He stays successful 1 with his small lad X and a mates of bodyguards. Several different bodyguards enactment successful the different unit,' helium says.

'He besides started looking astir and saw each the occupation that was coming his mode from Twitter, wherever helium was being denounced.

'Elon said, 'If that's what they're doing astatine Twitter, I'm going to bargain it and enactment an extremity to this rubbish.' He bought the tract successful October 2022 for £44billion.

Twitter, which Elon renamed X, was, of course, powerfully instrumental successful sweeping Donald Trump to the White House.

And now, says Errol, those vocal opponents of Trump volition person to pay. 'People are going to person to reply for what they've done.'

People? Errol ticks disconnected a database of those the incoming medication mean to 'bring to book'. 

They see conscionable astir everybody with whom Trump and Elon person crossed swords from President Biden to manager of the FBI Christopher Wray to Sir Keir Starmer.

'Communication betwixt Starmer's authorities and Trump's authorities is, astatine the contiguous time, astir impossible,' says Errol. 'I can't spot Starmer staying successful authorities for much than a fewer much months.

'It's impossible. How tin they [Trump's administration] woody with him aft what his people, his ministers person said? You can't woody with radical who person declared themselves your outright enemy.'

Errol is, of course, referring to elder Labour ministers' erstwhile tweets astir the President-elect. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner tweeted, 'I americium truthful blessed to spot the backmost of Donald Trump,' astatine the inauguration of Joe Biden; Foreign Secretary David Lammy called Trump 'a racist and KKK/neo-Nazi sympathiser' portion Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds accused Trump of 'bigotry' earlier failing to invitation Elon to the UK government's International Investment Summit this summer.

And helium does person links to this country. Errol's parent came from Liverpool and helium spent overmuch of his aboriginal puerility adjacent Bristol.

'We've ever liked the UK. I took Elon determination erstwhile helium was six but we don't subordinate to what's happening determination now.'

Errol shakes his caput but his eyes brighten erstwhile I bring the speech backmost to his son.

'Elon is unique. There is nary mode of comparing him to anybody else. He's not eligible for the presidency due to the fact that helium wasn't calved successful the States, but his mother's begetter was so, it's conceivable, they mightiness marque an objection for him arsenic he's a nonstop enactment descendant.'

Do I observe a gleam successful this aged rogue's eyes? 'At the infinitesimal I conscionable anticipation helium dodges the bullets that are going to travel his way,' helium says. 'The fictional bullets and those that are real.

'People inquire if I'm arrogant of Elon's success. I was arrogant of him the time helium was born. I'm blessed for him but, arsenic a parent, you conscionable privation your kid to beryllium harmless and well.'

And, successful this case, astatine the close manus of the adjacent person of the escaped world.