ELON Musk’s father has defended his son’s abrupt political shift and blamed Joe Biden for the tech titan’s blooming relationship with President Donald Trump.

Musk, who now leads the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the Trump administration, has received blowback from Democrats over the power and influence he has in the president’s orbit.

The tech billionaire, 53, has not left President Trump’s side in the weeks leading up to his Election Day victory, appearing at campaign rallies, private Mar-a-Lago events, and sat next to the First Family at Monday’s Inauguration ceremony.

During his remarks to a crowd of Trump supporters at Capital One Arena, Musk was accused of making a Nazi salute.

As Musk thanked attendees, he grabbed the left side of his chest with his right hand and extended his arm at a raised angle.

He turned around and made the gesture a second time, before turning to the microphone and saying, “My heart goes out to you” as he again placed his right hand over his heart.

The Tesla founder accused his enemies of engaging in “dirty tricks” to try and smear him, “The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired,” he wrote on X.

Errol Musk, the father of the tech titan, defended his son and called the Nazi accusation “rubbish.”

“It’s absolute nonsense. It’s absolute rubbish. Rubbish,” Errol told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo.

Errol called the gesture “universal salute” and claimed Democratic politicians, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez former President Barack Obama have done the same motion.

“As you said, he’s throwing his heart out. It’s a universal thing for thousands of years, so that’s rubbish,” he added.

“The behavior was fine. I can’t see anything wrong with that behavior.

“I’ve seen Obama and AOC using the same gesture and nobody is worried about when they make that same gesture, in fact, they react quite differently.”

Errol gleefully expressed he was “very happy” with his son’s venture into politics.

“All my children have done well in their fields, Elon to a certain extent has broken the mold,” he said.

“We’re not sort of sitting back, we would like to see more, why not. We’re very happy with him, very, very happy.”

Before aligning himself with Republicans, Musk had previously supported Democratic presidential candidates, including Obama in 2008, and both of Trump’s opponents, Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020.

TESLA SNUB

But when asked about his son’s adopted conservative ideology and his relationship with President Trump, Errol attributed it to former President Biden snubbing Tesla from an electric vehicle event at the White House in 2021.

“He started changing when Biden invited all the electric car manufacturers to the White House in 2021 but didn’t invite Tesla,” Errol told Cuomo.

“Tesla built a million cars, and the other manufacturers built aout 26 and hadn’t even sold one.”

At the time, executives from General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis attended the gathering; however, the companies had only begun their shift from gas to electric vehicles.

Tesla was the largest EV manufacturer in the world.

“Yeah, seems odd that Tesla wasn’t invited,” Musk wrote on X at the time.

Errol said his son was left confused why Tesla did not receive an invitation, which is when he began calling out the Biden administration online.

“Elon couldn’t understand that,” the father added.

“He started calling Biden a lunatic and the government loony. I said to him, ‘You’re making political statements. These people aren’t going to find this funny. They’ll kill you.’

“After that, he saw statements on Twitter telling him he’s a piece of this, a piece of that, and you must be deported.

“He couldn’t understand it because he always thought he was doing good things.”

Errol continued, “He’s now fully with Trump, and as he said at the election, ‘Civilization has been saved.”