President-elect Donald Trump discovered a robust ally in Elon Musk, the tech mogul who infused his 2024 marketing campaign with 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars}. However Trump is perhaps getting uninterested in Musk’s seemingly fixed presence, in keeping with New York Occasions reporter Maggie Haberman.
Haberman stated on Monday’s episode of the podcast “On with Kara Swisher” that Musk’s political rise hasn’t shocked her, as “Trump equates wealth with intelligence” — therefore the 2 males’s bromance. However, she stated, Musk probably hasn’t realized but that Trump “is a one-ring circus.”
“And Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot,” she continued. “Jonathan Swan and I reported recently with Ryan Mac that Musk has been staying at this cottage near Mar-a-Lago that rents typically for more than $2,000 a night.”
Haberman, Swan and Mac reported final week that Musk has been staying at Banyan Cottage just a few hundred ft from Trump’s major residence on the Florida resort, and that he has been sitting in on cellphone calls with international leaders and attending personnel conferences for Trump’s incoming administration.
Haberman stated Monday that Musk has “really parked himself in Trump’s face,” however joked that it’s unlikely the Tesla CEO will “move into the Lincoln Bedroom” with the president-elect.
“I think he’s going to try to have as much proximity to Trump as possible,” Haberman added. “That requires being given an office on the White House campus, either in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is adjacent to the White House, or the West Wing proper.”
She finally wagered that Musk gained’t have an workplace on campus, nonetheless.
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Trump introduced plans in November to appoint Musk as co-director of the Division of Authorities Effectivity, a federal advisory group aimed toward slashing supposedly wasteful authorities spending.
“It definitely bothers him,” Haberman stated Monday about Trump. “The ‘President Musk’ line was always going to be a way to get him. And I mean, Trump’s not a wind-up toy, but there certainly are very specific things that can [anger] him. And that was one of them.”
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The headlines about “President Musk” definitely appeared to pique Trump, who just isn’t identified for his generosity in sharing the highlight. Final month, he dismissed the concept he’s taken a again seat to Musk as certainly one of his adversaries’ “hoaxes.”
