Musk has been staying at $2,000-a-night Mar-a-Lago cottage — simply a whole bunch of ft from Trump’s most important home | EUROtoday

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Elon Musk is getting nearer and nearer to Donald Trump, fairly actually, with a brand new report that the tech bnire is at the moment renting a cottage on the grounds of the President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

According to The New York Times, Musk is staying at Banyan – a cottage situated simply a number of hundred ft from the primary home of the property– which prices not less than $2,000 to remain in per night time, per sources with data of the prices.

The information comes as issues proceed to develop in Washington concerning the extent of the SpaceX boss’ affect over Trump, having sat in on personnel conferences, carried out talks with overseas leaders and helped to tank a bipartisan spending invoice in congress.

The President-elect has boasted that the world’s richest man is “renting” one of many residential areas at Mar-a-Lago.

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The property incorporates a number of cottages which have reportedly been utilized by others in Trump’s interior circle, together with Vice President-elect JD Vance, in the course of the transition interval.

The Times reviews that Musk moved into the cottage round Election Day and watched the outcomes at Mar-a-Lago with Trump and different MAGA cheerleaders together with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

He left the property round Christmas and has been anticipated to return a while within the New Year.

It is unclear how a lot the tech boss is paying for the cottage, although visitors on the Mar-a-Lago membership are usually not billed till the top of the keep. The final value of Musk’s keep might come all the way down to the President-elect.

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The “best buddy” relationship between the pair seems to be going sturdy. Last week Trump  posted what seemed to be a private message to Musk on Truth Social, claiming that fellow billionaire Bill Gates requested to come back to Mar-a-Lago.

“Where are you? When are you coming to the ‘Center of the Universe,’ Mar-a-Lago. Bill Gates asked to come, tonight. We miss you and x! New Year’s Eve is going to be AMAZING!!!” Trump wrote. He signed it “DJT.”

“X” seems to have been a reference to Musk’s son, X Æ A-Xii, who he calls X for brief,

While staying at Mar-a-Lago, Musk has been accompanied by not less than two of his kids — although he’s reported to have not less than 11 — and their nannies.

The Times additionally reported that the Tesla boss is understood to make inconvenient requests like meals outdoors the traditional kitchen hours.