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Elon Musk said he is so close to President Donald Trump that Trump has asked him to stay in one of the most historic rooms in the White House.
“We’ll be on Air Force One or Marine One and he’s like, ‘Hey do you want to stay over?’ I’m like, ‘Sure,’ and he sends me to the Lincoln Bedroom,” Musk told a small group reporters on Wednesday night. “I haven’t requested it — to be clear.”
Musk, who is Trump’s self-described “first buddy,” has said that he will scale back his time in Washington so he can devote more time to Tesla, his signature company that has borne of the backlash to Musk’s de facto leadership of the White House DOGE office.
In the same interview, Musk spoke candidly about the DOGE office’s struggles.
At Trump’s invitation, Musk has also eaten a lot of ice cream from the White House kitchen.
Trump has repeatedly said that he has grown close to Musk, the world’s richest man who spent over $290 million on the 2024 election, most of which went to helping Trump retake the White House.
The Lincoln Bedroom features a massive rosewood bed that Mary Todd Lincoln is believed to have purchased in 1861, according to The White House Historical Society. In 1945, President Truman placed the bed in what had been President Lincoln’s office and formally renamed the room after the 16th president. The White House currently displays a handwritten copy of President Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg address.
President Clinton sparked a scandal in the 1990s when it was reported that top donors later received the privilege of spending a night in the room. Clinton White House documents later revealed that scores of celebrities, including Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Jane Fonda, and famed executive Lee Iacocca, also spent nights in the room during Clinton’s time in office.
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