Walter Isaacson, a best-selling Elon Musk biographer, recalled a past conversation he had with the tech mogul where he mused that President Donald Trump reminded him of his father, Errol Musk.
In an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Monday, Isaacson, who spent two years shadowing Musk to write his eponymous 2023 biography, weighed in on why the Tesla CEO was drawn to Trump’s orbit and came to be one of its key players.
“I think he called Donald Trump in my book, a ‘Charlatan and a conman,’” Isaacson began while recalling what Musk’s viewpoint on the president was when he started shadowing him in 2021. “And then he said, ‘You know, but he reminds me of my father.’”