Tech billionaire Elon Musk joined President-elect Donald Trump and his family for Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
A video posted to X, the social media platform Musk owns, showed him sitting at a table at the Palm Beach club alongside Trump, his wife Melania, and his youngest son Barron, while the Village People’s “YMCA” played over the loudspeakers.
User @alx, who frequently praises Trump and Musk, reposted the video late Thursday night, writing: “Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Barron and Melania blasting YMCA at Mar-a-Lago on Thanksgiving.” The video was viewed 27.7 million times by Friday morning.
It was then reposted by Musk to his 206 million followers. He wrote: “Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!” Musk’s repost was viewed an additional 26.1 million times by early on Friday.
“YMCA,” widely considered a gay anthem, has been a staple of Trump’s political rallies since 2020, usually accompanied by the president-elect’s signature fist-pumping dance.
Newsweek contacted Musk via X and Trump’s transition team via email for comment.
Musk, the chairman of X, and the chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla, appears to be becoming increasingly influential in Trump’s inner circle, including reportedly joining the president-elect in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The world’s richest man spent election day at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and is reported to have been a near-constant presence at the resort since the Republican won the race.
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In a speech earlier in November, Trump said of Musk’s presence: “He likes this place. I can’t get him out of here. He just likes this place.”
Trump has also tapped Musk, along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to run the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in order to “dismantle” federal bureaucracy and reduce staffing.
The Trumps have long made Mar-a-Lago their Thanksgiving destination, with the president-elect opting to spend the holiday away from there on only two recent occasions.
The first was in 2019, when he traveled on Thanksgiving Day for a surprise visit to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, and again in 2020, when he remained at the White House.
This year, Trump sent out a Thanksgiving message shortly after midnight on Thursday. In the message, he taunted his political opponents, celebrated his election victory and promised he would improve the condition of the country.
He wrote on Truth Social, the platform he owns: “Happy Thanksgiving to all including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
“Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!”
