Elon Musk stated he’s so near President Donald Trump that Trump has requested him to remain in probably the most historic rooms within the White Home.
“We’ll be on Air Drive One or Marine One and he is like, ‘Hey do you need to keep over?’ I am like, ‘Positive,’ and he sends me to the Lincoln Bed room,” Musk advised a small group reporters on Wednesday evening. “I have never requested it — to be clear.”
Musk, who’s Trump’s self-described “first buddy,” has stated that he’ll cut back his time in Washington so he can commit extra time to Tesla, his signature firm that has borne of the backlash to Musk’s de facto management of the White Home DOGE workplace.
In the identical interview, Musk spoke candidly concerning the DOGE workplace’s struggles.
At Trump’s invitation, Musk has additionally eaten numerous ice cream from the White Home kitchen.
Trump has repeatedly stated that he has grown near Musk, the world’s richest man who spent over $290 million on the 2024 election, most of which went to serving to Trump retake the White Home.
The Lincoln Bed room contains a large rosewood mattress that Mary Todd Lincoln is believed to have bought in 1861, in line with The White Home Historic Society. In 1945, President Truman positioned the mattress in what had been President Lincoln’s workplace and formally renamed the room after the sixteenth president. The White Home at the moment shows a handwritten copy of President Lincoln’s well-known Gettysburg handle.
President Clinton sparked a scandal within the Nineteen Nineties when it was reported that high donors later acquired the privilege of spending an evening within the room. Clinton White Home paperwork later revealed that scores of celebrities, together with Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Jane Fonda, and famed govt Lee Iacocca, additionally spent nights within the room throughout Clinton’s time in workplace.
