Elon Musk’s father: Elon is straightforward

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00:00And that was just after the Twitter exchange between your son and President Trump.

00:05And you said at the time that you hoped that the two men would quickly draw a line under their feud.

00:10That doesn't seem to be happening. If anything, things seem to be escalating, don't they?

00:17Well, you know, the world is in a terrible state of flux at the moment.

00:22And I myself find it not only here in this country, but I've been overseas the last month in three or four countries.

00:33And everywhere it seems to be that people are very confused about the way forward.

00:41I personally am very grateful that we have at least Trump and not Biden or Harris or whatever the name was in America.

00:50But I quite frankly don't quite know what to say about the things that are going on.

00:59My son is a very straightforward individual.

01:04So it's difficult not to take note of what he says because he's not a fool.

01:11He is a very, very, how can you say, a very punctilious or whatever the right word is sort of person.

01:20He doesn't mess with words.

01:23He says what he means and says what he feels.

01:27So it's very difficult to ignore the things he says.