Musk has been a near-constant fixture at Mar-a-Lago since he poured $200 million into the incoming president’s successful re-election bid and jumped around for him non-stop on stage on the campaign trail.

In the lounge outside Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago office, cabinet hopefuls mingle with advisers and friends of the future president. The occasional resort member strolls through. It is, as one Republican puts it,

Donald Trump joked that he could not get Elon Musk "out of here" during a speech at a black-tie event in Mar-a-Lago. In his first major speaking event since the president-elect's election victory, Trump praised the "high IQ" of the tech entrepreneur and owner of X,