Musk's first wife, Justine Wilson, is a fantasy and sci-fi author with whom he had six children. Their first child, Nevada Alexander Musk, was born in 2002 but tragically died due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The couple later had twins, Griffin and Vivian, in 2004, followed by triplets, Kai, Saxon and Damian, in 2006.

In the three weeks since Donald Trump returned to the White House, Elon Musk has taken a wrecking ball to the federal government in what he has called "a revolution of the people". That revolution has included offers to buyout millions of federal employees,

Elon Musk said the United States must “delete entire agencies” in order to achieve the Trump administration’s goals of drastically downsizing and restructuring the federal workforce. “I think we do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leave a lot of them behind,