Watch Elon Musk's response to Trump asking if SpaceX booster can be relaunched after crashing into the sea

Elon Musk gave Donald Trump the broadside oculus aft the president-elect asked if a rocket booster tin beryllium reused contempt it crashing arsenic a fireball into the water.

Trump's eldest grandchild Kait, 17, has started revealing much and much penetration into the president-elect's day-to-day activities – and posted a video connected X of past week's Texas SpaceX launch.

'Watching a Rocket Launch astatine SpaceX with Elon Musk!' she captioned a astir 12-minute video that included a snippet of her doing a mentation of Trump's YMCA rally dance.

An exacerbated Musk could beryllium seen visibly frustrated astir seven-and-a-half-minutes into the video arsenic helium tried to explicate however the destroyed booster could not beryllium utilized again aft falling into the Gulf of Mexico.

'We had immoderate concerns astir the operation truthful it was commanded to onshore retired astatine sea,' Musk is seen telling a pouting Trump, 78, successful the video posted by Kai.

'Can they usage that again? Can they get it from the sea?' Trump asked arsenic helium stook alongside Musk and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. 

Musk appears to bash a treble instrumentality earlier responding with: 'Uhh, it's going to be...it's...it's astir apt gonna stroke up. That's my guess.'

Just 4 minutes into past Tuesday's launch, the ngo manager ordered the booster to clang into the Gulf of Mexico connected a atrocious time for SpaceX operations.

The SpaceX, Tesla and X CEO has been moving to chopped the outgo of each Starship formation successful fractional by making boosters reusable.

But it's wide that the fireball of a rocket booster could not beryllium utilized again aft crashing into the Gulf past week.

Kai besides posted an representation of herself with Trump and Musk with a video of the rocket launch, writing: 'What an unthinkable experience!'

Musk, 53, has been by Trump's broadside astir 24/7 since the predetermination connected November 5.

The 2 person been seen walking astir Mar-a-Lago, eating unneurotic and strategizing during meetings astatine Trump's residence successful Palm Beach, Florida.

Earlier this month, Kai posted an representation connected the people astatine her grandfather's West Palm Beach play nine with Musk and his lad X Æ A-Xii (pronounced 'Ex Ash A 12') and said the billionaire reached 'uncle status.'

As Trump announced his caller Cabinet and medication selections, helium revealed a caller impermanent bureau called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Musk and 2024 superior campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy.

Based connected his X relationship activity, Musk agrees Trump is his caller bestie and wrote connected his societal media level they are 'basically champion friends.'

Musk's ma Maye fawned implicit the pair's narration during a Tuesday interrogation connected Fox Business's programme Varney & Co.

'Of course, I've seen them together, but precise shortly,' she noted. 'I unrecorded successful New York, and they're successful Mar-a-Lago oregon [a] SpaceX launch, and they conscionable look to beryllium having fun. A batch of fun.'

'And it's bully for some of them to person fun, and [Elon] truly respects him a batch and is truly blessed that there's a aboriginal for America now,' she concluded of her son's friendship.