Musk's estranged dad tells son to make friends again with Trump

Elon Musk's estranged father Errol told his 'gorilla' son to get back on President Donald Trump's good side. 

The elder Musk told The Times of London Friday that his son's feud with Trump resembled male animals fighting for dominance - but since Trump is the president of the United States, he'll 'win this round.' 

'In any successful group of animals, whether gorillas, elephants or human beings, the dominant males will always fight for dominance,' Musk said.  'The problem you get with really good quality people is that the men all think they should be the general.'

'They will have to sort it out and because Trump is the one who was elected, Elon is going to have to accept he is not going to be the general,' the Tesla CEO's father added. 

A week ago, Musk was being feted in the Oval Office alongside Trump for the work he did for DOGE - the Department of Government Efficiency - as he headed back into the private sector. 

But Musk's complaints about the 'big, beautiful bill' spilled Thursday into an all-out war between the most powerful man in the world and the richest. 

'I have had this trouble with Elon my whole life,' his father observed. 'If something doesn't look right to him, he can't help himself but say so on principle.'

'But I always said to him that he can do that without getting nasty,' the elder Musk added. 

The fight got so brutal that the SpaceX CEO accused the president of being 'in the Epstein files,' a reference to serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. 

The younger Musk also appeared supportive of Trump being impeached - and replaced by 40-year-old Vice President J.D. Vance.  

Trump made clear to reporters Friday morning that he would not be calling Musk to make peace. 

He also floated that he planned to sell the Tesla - a purchase he made to prop up Musk's electric car business as liberals started boycotting the vehicles. 

Errol Musk didn't seem surprised. 

'But Elon is a man who has never known a day's hardship in his life,' he said. 'He has had a charmed life and so has never had to learn that the hard way.'

At the same time, the elder Musk believed that the Musk-Trump row 'would now fizzle out.' 

'Trump has to put things in that budget to make the Democrats vote for it. Elon saw things he didn’t like and spoke up, but that should be the end of it now,' he said. 

'Trump isn’t vengeful. He will win this round with Elon and not hold it against him,' he continued. 

'A big person can forgive easily, only small people can't. Things have gone over the top, but this is the situation when alphas fight it out. I've told Elon he has said his part, but now he must allow things to calm down - and I hope he will,' the elder Musk added.  

The former leader of DOGE appeared more restrained Friday, though placed blame on Trump for things getting so heated. 

'Elon criticized Congress, not Trump,' read an X post Friday that Musk commented on. 'Trump then attacked Elon personally.'

'Exactly,' Elon Musk wrote. 

Trump spent his Friday behind closed doors and didn't talk to reporters on the South Lawn as he departed for a Bedminster weekend.