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As Donald Trump takes office, there's ongoing speculation astir the durability of his unusually adjacent relationship and 'bromance' with visionary billionaire Elon Musk.
A important fig of Americans look optimistic astir their narration according to a caller exclusive DailyMail/J.L. Partners survey.
Forty percent judge the improbable duo volition beryllium connected bully presumption by the extremity of Trump’s 2nd term. Thirty-two percent of Americans did not judge the relationship would past and 28 percent were unsure.
The canvass featured 1,009 registered voters with a 3.4 percent borderline of mistake and was conducted betwixt January 10-12.
Republicans are adjacent much optimistic astir the relationship lasting, intelligibly encouraged by that they person seen truthful far.
Sixty-five precent of Republicans accidental the relationship betwixt Musk and Trump past and lone 14 percent bash not.
Dubbed the ‘First Buddy’ of the president-elect, Musk spent respective days with Trump and his household arsenic helium celebrated the his palmy governmental comeback.
Musk besides sat successful immoderate of Trump’s telephone calls with satellite leaders, joined the president-elect and his household for meals and was often sighted astatine Mar-a-Lago portion Trump was putting unneurotic his cabinet.
Trump traveled with the billionaire to personally witnesser a SpaceX motorboat astatine his launchpad successful Texas. Musk besides traveled with Trump aboard his backstage level to be a UFC combat with a radical of his closest governmental allies arsenic good arsenic the Army-Navy shot game.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance be the 125th Army-Navy shot game
Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump astatine a viewing of the motorboat of the sixth trial formation of the SpaceX Starship rocket successful Brownsville, Texas
Musk enjoys a sky-high support standing with Republicans, particularity aft purchasing Twitter and loosening up censorship bans and controls connected conservatives utilizing the level that helium rebranded with the sanction of X.
Seventy-one percent of Republicans presumption Musk favorably, but that could each travel crashing down if Trump pushes him aside. Sixty-eight percent of Republicans said they would broadside with Trump if the brace had a falling out.
The president-elect yet appointed Musk to assistance pb the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), giving him an authoritative relation successful his administration.
Musk is expected to adjacent have an bureau astatine the White House complex, successful the Executive Office Building crossed the street, arsenic 1 of the world’s richest men volition bask a person carnal proximity to the president than immoderate of his counterparts.
Trump has enjoyed Musk’s input and the resources that helium offers, arsenic helium has marveled astatine Musk’s Starlink broadband outer net strategy and the rockets that tin onshore by themselves oregon adjacent get snatched retired of the entity for reuse.
Elon Musk travels with President-elect Donald Trump and his governmental entourage
US President-elect Donald Trump, vocalist Kid Rock and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk airs for a photograph arsenic they be UFC 309 astatine Madison Square Garden
Musk’s engagement with the governing process extended to the abbreviated word backing combat connected Capitol Hill successful December arsenic helium posted his absorption to an aboriginal House Republican statement with Democrats, yet sidesplitting the bipartisan 1,547-page bill.
Democrats were outraged by Musk’s objection of governmental power, launching a captious communicative the the billionaire was secretly the ‘real president’ of the United States.
But Trump dismissed the claims arsenic different hoax, reminding his supporters that arsenic antheral calved successful Africa, Musk could ne'er beryllium the president of the United States.
‘I similar having astute people,’ helium told supporters astatine a Turning Point USA lawsuit successful December. ‘Isn’t it bully to person astute radical that we tin trust on?’
Musk’s goodwill with Trump’s MAGA supporters was threatened implicit the Christmas holiday, aft helium endorsed the usage of H-1B visas to bring overseas workers into the United States to enactment for tech companies.
DAILYMAIL.COM'S INAUGURAL EVENT GUIDE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17
The Creative Coalition’s 100 Leader Dinner & Salute: The Hollywood nonpartisan arts advocacy radical is holding a meal benefiting subject groups with a big committee consisting of actors Tim Daly, Dean Norris, Iain Armitage, Richard Kind, Yolonda Ross and Steven Weber
Crypto Ball: The pro-crypto currency assemblage volition stitchery Friday nighttime astatine the archetypal inaugural Crypto Ball where Snoop Dogg is expected to perform. Ticket prices commencement retired astatine $5,000
RNC Victory Party: The Republican National Committee is kicking disconnected the play with a Friday nighttime fete
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18
All American Ball: Sean Spicer volition big and Lee Greenwood volition beryllium honored
Freedom of the Press Inaugural Bash: The Daily Caller and DCI Group are co-hosting an invite-only media solemnisation astatine the Georgetown hotspot Cafe Milano
The Official Hispanic Inaugural Ball: Colombian vocalist Gusi and El Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán volition execute astatine this shot that boasts incoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz and erstwhile Texas Gov. Rick Perry arsenic honorary chairs - arsenic good arsenic Donald Trump Jr. and his ex Kimberly Guilfoyle
The Peace Ball: The fashionable D.C. eatery Busboys and Poets is hosting a enactment wherever progressives tin spell to cry. Expected attendees this twelvemonth see Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and erstwhile Rep. Cori Bush, writers V, formerly Eve Ensler and Alice Walker and CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin
The Peachtree Ball: The Georgia State Society is taking implicit Union Station's ornate ballroom for their accepted affair
Matt Whitaker and David Urban reception: The erstwhile acting lawyer wide and the CNN MAGA property propulsion down astatine D.C.'s see-and-be-seen restaurant, Cafe Milano
Midwest Gala: The authorities societies of Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois and Missouri are joining forces to propulsion a enactment astatine the National Museum of Women successful the Arts
North Carolina Society 2025 Inaugural Ball: The Tar Heels are taking implicit the magestic Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium for a nighttime of 'elegance and sophistication'
The State Society of Michigan's 2025 Bipartisan Inaugural Gala: Called an 'exciting evening of relationship and celebration' it volition beryllium held astatine the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19
The Make America Great Again Rally*: President-elect Donald Trump volition clasp a rally astatine the Capital One Arena featuring Kid Rock, The Village People, Billy Ray Cyrus and Liberty University's Praise Choir
The Coronation Ball: Publisher Passage Press is hosting an inaugural enactment astatine D.C.'s famed Watergate Hotel promising 'luminaries from crossed the New Right'
George Washington University's inaugural ball: The D.C.-based George Washington University has been holding an inaugural shot for students since 1993
Legacy of Freedom Ball: The Black Conservative Federation is holding an lawsuit hosting Rep. Byron Donalds, Waka Flocka and erstwhile NFL subordinate Antonio Brown
Newsmax's Inauguration Eve Celebration: Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy volition toast incoming members of the Trump medication astatine 1 of the nicest venues successful Washington, the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
PragerU Pre-Inauguration VIP Reception: The blimpish contented shaper is hosting a mid-afternoon reception costing $10,000 per couple
South Carolina State Society: Palmetto Presidential Inaugural Ball: The South is taking implicit the National Portrait Gallery - the aforesaid venue that housed President Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural shot - for a black-tie fete
Texas State Society's Black Tie and Boots Ball: The Texas State Society is taking implicit the Washington Hilton for its cowboy boots-themed event
Turning Point's Inaugural Eve Ball: The Village People volition execute and Donald Trump Jr., Conor McGregor, Megyn Kelly, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Glenn Beck, Alina Habba and Riley Gaines et. al. are expected to be the Charlie Kirk hosted bash
Trump Victory Ball: For those who don't privation to transverse from the Virginia suburbs into Washington, D.C. this shot being thrown by the American Freedom Tour is being held crossed the Potomac astatine the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel
Young Jewish Conservatives Inauguration Celebration: Taking spot astatine Navy Yard's fashionable Florida-themed swimming excavation barroom Royal Sands, the lawsuit promises to bring unneurotic hundreds of blimpish Jews to toast 'l'chaim' to the caller administration
MONDAY, JANUARY 20
Continental Resources party: Billionaire lipid executive Harold Hamm rented retired the Hay-Adams Hotel rooftop, which overlooks the White House, for a daytime enactment celebrating Trump arsenic he's pledged to rotation backmost Biden-era clime alteration protections
The Bipartisan Inaugural Ball: Celebrating American Agriculture: Also known arsenic the 'Farm Prom' this lawsuit astatine the Grand Hyatt benefits D.C. Central Kitchen and the National 4-H Council
Commander successful Chief Ball*: President Donald Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump volition attend. Rascal Flatts and Parker McCollum volition perform
Liberty Inaugural Ball*: President Donald Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump volition attend. Jason Aldean and The Village People volition execute - arsenic good arsenic a 'surprise philharmonic guest'
The MAHA Inaugural Ball: Being billed arsenic a 'celebration of health, unity, and the question led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.' it volition instrumentality spot astatine the Waldorf Astoria, which was formerly the D.C. Trump hotel
The Mayflower Cigar Lounge: The folks astatine the Daily Wire person created an invite-only inauguration after-party astatine Shelly's Back Room, a fashionable downtown D.C. cigar lounge
The Multicultural Coalition U.S. Presidential Inaugural Ball: MPAC, a radical that helps elite number Republicans, is throwing a enactment astatine the Washington Times' Arbor Ballroom promising a 'very peculiar guest'
Musicians On Call and the Recording Industry Association of America's Presidential Inaugural Charity Benefit: The signaling manufacture is hosting a backstage precocious nighttime enactment with a show by Chris Janson
Oregon Republican Party and Gateway Pundit's Presidential Inaugural Ball: Oregon Republicans and members of the Hoft household are taking implicit the Hamilton Live show abstraction for a enactment wherever Lara Logan, Kari Lake, Gen. Mike Flynn and Roger Stone are promised
RALLY4VETS: A fig of veterans groups are coming unneurotic to propulsion a black-tie gala astatine D.C.'s tony Fairmount Hotel
Starlight Ball*: President Donald Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump volition attend. Gavin DeGraw volition perform
State Society of Arizona's Inaugural Ball: The radical representing the Grand Canyon State volition clasp their bash astatine the British Ambassador's Residence
*Denotes an authoritative Presidential Inaugural Committee lawsuit that President Donald Trump volition attend.
Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and guests astatine a viewing of the motorboat of the sixth trial formation of the SpaceX Starship
Elon Musk and his lad be meal astatine Mar-a-Lago with President-elect Donald Trump
The wide fashionable billionaire and self-described ‘free-speech absolutist’ warned salient MAGA figures who attacked him for his presumption that changes to the algorithm would beryllium made that could impact them. Some adjacent claimed that Musk removed their verified badge, hurting their scope connected the platform.
Trump lightly trolled Musk during the controversy, suggesting helium should instrumentality to Mar-a-Lago for the vacation festivities alternatively than get successful fights connected societal media.
'Where are you?' Trump wrote to Musk connected his Truth Social platform. 'When are you coming to the 'Center of the Universe,' Mar-a-Lago.'
Musk’s defence of H1-B visas besides angered erstwhile Trump strategist and elder counsellor Steve Bannon said helium would marque it his ngo to support Musk distant from immoderate presumption of power during Trump’s 2nd word arsenic president.
‘He volition not person a bluish walk to the White House, helium volition not person afloat entree to the White House, helium volition beryllium similar immoderate different person,’ Bannon said successful an interrogation with Italian quality outlet Corriere della Sera describing the tech billionaire arsenic ‘a genuinely evil guy.’
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