One of the most shocking images from Donald Trump’s inauguration was Elon Musk’s Nazi salute on a day when the businessman became the protagonist. The world’s richest person, who will be in the new US president’s administration in his second term, has been criticised over the past few days for a rather controversial action
This Friday, January 24, the issue was analyzed in ‘laSexta Columna’, which tried to investigate the president’s past to analyze his links with Nazism. Musk grew up in his early years in South Africa. According to his own testimony, his grandfather emigrated to the African country “to use it as a base to explore” in his profession as a chiropractor and pilot in his spare time.
However, Elon Musk’s father, Errol, has a rather different version of events: “My ex-wife’s parents came to South Africa from Canada because they sympathised with the Afrikaner government. In fact, they were very fanatical about apartheid,” he said. Moreover, when the grandfather was young, he joined the ‘Technocracy Incorporated’ movement, which supported technocrats ruling countries.
Likewise, Musk’s father pointed out that the grandfather supported Nazi Germany: “They used to support Hitler. Obviously I don’t think they knew what the Nazis were doing”. According to him, the billionaire has tried to hide part of his family life so that these kinds of details are not known, with a lot of fantasy in his stories.
Errol Musk: “It was really bad”
Musk claimed that he was bullied during his time in South Africa: “I was punched in the face many times. Once I was beaten up until I was almost killed”. Something that the businessman’s own father denied: “The headmaster called me. A boy’s father had committed suicide and Elon said to him: ‘Your father was stupid'”.
“The young man waited for Elon not to look and pushed him down the stairs. When he was down, the boy jumped on him and started hitting him with things. I don’t know. It was really bad,” Errol Musk added.