Elon Musk is one of the most influential entrepreneurs in the world today - but he claims his childhood was tough. Part of the reason for this could be his relationship with his father, which is still difficult today.

Elon Musk was friends with "Black servants" while growing up, his father told The Washington Post. Newsweek reached out to Musk for comment via Tesla's press email. President Donald Trump tapped Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),

Elon Musk’s dad tried to prove his son wasn’t racist in all the wrong ways. Errol, the 79-year-old father of the world’s richest man, insisted that his children were not into “political nonsense” while growing up in apartheid-era South Africa.