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- Trump and Musk attend the Wrestling Championship of their newest look collectively outdoors DOGE.
- The NCAA Wrestling Championship is a significant faculty occasion with prime nationwide wrestlers.
- Their joint look drew cheers from supporters but additionally boos from critics.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk seem to have a brand new shared curiosity that is not authorities effectivity: wrestling.
The president and Tesla CEO had been seen collectively on Saturday in Philadelphia for the NCAA Division 1 Wrestling Championship, an annual faculty match that includes the nation’s prime wrestlers.
Trump entered the Wells Fargo Middle and shook palms with a number of members of the gang to principally cheers — and a few boos — earlier than chants rang spherical of “U-S-A.”
Outdoors the sector, a number of dozen protesters had gathered alongside Pattison Avenue, holding indicators saying “Save our democracy” and “No fascists.”
Wyatt Hendrickson defeated Olympic gold medalist and two-time champ Gable Steveson to win the NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship.
Trump congratulated each wrestlers after the struggle and shook their palms.
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In an interview with Fox Information on Friday, Trump stated he is “all the time supported the wrestlers.”
Musk stated in a Sunday X publish, “The NCAA wrestling heavyweight championship match was superb preventing between two tremendous proficient males!”
It is the pair’s newest public look collectively outdoors Musk’s work for the Division of Authorities Effectivity, or DOGE.
They each attended UFC 309 at Madison Sq. Gardens in November after Trump’s election victory.
Earlier that month, Musk performed Golf at Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seashore, in keeping with a social media publish from Kai Trump, the president’s granddaughter. She captioned the publish, “Elon reaching uncle standing.”
Trump has additionally attended a SpaceX rocket launch and, extra just lately, promoted Tesla vehicles in entrance of the White Home alongside Musk.
Their alliance has not been with out backlash over DOGE’s widespread layoffs and job losses throughout the federal government and withdrawal of funding for some departments.