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Step aside Laura Loomer, Donald Trump has a new BFFL (best friend for life) – or perhaps mancrush.
Trump head cheerleader Elon Musk will be bunking with the former president at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach tonight as the 2024 general election results pour in, according to the New York Times.
Sources tell the newspaper that the X (that’s Twitter to you and us) owner will be among a small group sharing election-night festivities with the veteran presidential hopeful.
If the pair will spend the entire night together, one X user has an important question:
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“Who’s gonna be the small spoon?”
Who's gonna be the small spoon?
— hunter (@huntergray) November 5, 2024
Another X user appropriated a more – gasp! – NSFW observation in response to the slumber-party news.
https://t.co/t83xZx2tU3 pic.twitter.com/LzkFkBoaWz
— Rohan Singh (@haan_singh91) November 5, 2024
Another wondered what olfactory results might come of the mogul-on-mogul commingling of, er, musks, suggesting that “[t]he smell in the room would be unimaginable.”
The smell in the room would be unimaginable https://t.co/D8TtGvjspF
— Dave Snyder (@EpicallyHarshed) November 5, 2024
You may want to shield your eyes for this next one (TW).
We’ll wait.
OK?
“Well we know where that leads,” a user wrote above an AI image of Trump cradling a glowingly pregnant Elon.
Well we know where that leads pic.twitter.com/OwCf3T4QZV
— Nostradonny 🦠(@Nostradonny) November 5, 2024
It’s not a huge surprise that Musk and Trump would choose to watch the returns roll in; the pair has been crushing on one another with a passion in the months leading up to Election Day.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO threw his support behind the Republican nominee in July and poured more than $118 million into a pro-Trump America PAC of his own creation. Along with the financial backing, Musk has used his social-media platform to spread pro-Trump propaganda and election misinformation. Trump basked in the adulation, lauding Musk as a genius during his town hall at Univision’s studios in Doral in October.
LAST PUSH pic.twitter.com/iJ3Hw3Vz4J
— beeple (@beeple) November 5, 2024
Musk smooched back, announcing during an October 19 rally in Pennsylvania that the PAC would give away $1 million a day to voters in swing states who sign a petition in support of the First and Second amendments.
Following a lawsuit filed by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who argued the stunt violates federal election laws, a Pennsylvania judge allowed the giveaway to proceed.
Days before Halloween, the 53-year-old tech billionaire took the stage at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally and declared himself “dark, gothic MAGA” while sporting a hat whose MAGA logo was spelled out in font some observers found to be reminiscent of a typeface that was popular during the Third Reich in Nazi Germany.
It remains to be seen whether Musk will supply the popcorn for tonight’s slumber party.
