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Elon Musk's influence on the newly elected US president continues to grow, as evidenced by their close contacts, almost at the "family" level. So on Thursday, November 28, Musk celebrated Thanksgiving at the Mar-a-Lago estate at the same table with Donald Trump, his wife Melania and their son Barron.
Newsweek writes about this with reference to a video taken at the party and published on the social network X, which is owned by Musk.
The repost of the video, made by Musk himself with the caption "a wonderful Thanksgiving", was viewed by users of the social network more than 26 million times.
“Elon Musk, chairman of X and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, appears to be increasingly influential in Trump's inner circle. According to available data, he even joined the president-elect in a telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi," the publication noted.
Musk also spent Election Day at Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago. According to information in the media, since that time he almost did not leave the Trump estate.
In his speech at the beginning of November, Trump explained that Musk simply "likes it" there.
"I can't drive him out of here. He just likes this place," Trump said.
The next US president also tapped Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE). The main task of the new structure will be to "dismantle" the federal bureaucracy and reduce the number of officials in the government.
Trump himself congratulated Americans on Thanksgiving just after midnight on Thursday with a post on the Truth Social social network, which he owns. In the post, he mocked his political opponents and again promised to restore the greatness of America.
“Happy Thanksgiving to all, especially the radical leftist lunatics who worked so hard to destroy our country and failed miserably. They will always fail because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great men of our country have just handed a landslide victory to those who want to make America great again! Don't worry, our country will soon become respectable, productive, fair and strong, and you will be prouder than ever to be Americans," Trump emphasized.
