Inside Elon Musk’s Thanksgiving with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump hosted a ample Thanksgiving repast astatine his Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Florida, with a big of stars – including Elon Musk.

Musk joined Trump and his extended household astatine the Floridian edifice with Melania Trump, Barron Trump and others.

A video shared online showed ‘YMCA’ played connected the speakers successful the venue arsenic Trump sang along.

Others danced astir the soon-to-be President, including Musk.

Musk shared the video, writing: ‘Hope you had a large Thanksgiving!’

Trump and Musk person forged a adjacent narration successful the past year, astir precocious having met astatine a motorboat for Musk’s latest rocket.

Trump was intelligibly impressed with the feat by Musk, who helium had conscionable said has an IQ ‘about arsenic precocious arsenic they tin get’.

The president-elect went to large lengths during his 2024 campaignto entreaty to American voters – from serving at a McDonald’s to climbing into a garbage truck to support his supporters.

Trump’s eldest granddaughter Kai Trump, 17, who accompanied her grandpa to Texas to ticker the launch, asked Trump if helium would get connected the rocket.

‘I asked grandpa, “Would you spell successful it?”‘ said Kai successful a video on her YouTube transmission uploaded connected Tuesday.

‘And helium goes, “No.” He would not unpaid going successful the spaceship but it’s OK.’

Kai laughed and past asked her friend, Emma Markin, if she would go. ‘Go connected it? Without a doubt. In a heartbeat, I’m connected that,’ said Markin.

Kai herself said witnessing the rocket takeoff – though the booster did not instrumentality to the motorboat pad and alternatively into the Gulf of Mexico – was ‘honestly 1 of the coolest things ever’.

‘I’ve ne'er seen thing similar that,’ she said. ‘And the sound of it, erstwhile it was going up. Insane.’

Trump has already appointed Musk, who spent astir $200million to assistance him decision Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, to head up a caller Department of Government Efficiency.

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