--- title: "Elon Musk and Donald Trump Are Spending Election Night Together" description: "Elon Musk will spend election night with Donald Trump at the presidential candidate's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida." date: "2024-11-05" modified: "2024-11-05" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/musk-trump-election-night-together" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "donald trump" - "elon musk" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk and Donald Trump Are Spending Election Night Together ![Elon Musk will spend election night with Donald Trump at the presidential candidate's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.]() *\Image: Anna Moneymaker via Getty / Futurism\* ## BFFs Everyone has their own way of dealing with election night, whether it's tuning into the mayhem or willfully insulating yourself from it. Lo and behold, Elon Musk — the world's richest man and biggest Trump cheerleader — will be spending it with the man on the ticket himself. As [*The New York Times* reports](), Musk will stay with Donald Trump tonight at the Republican presidential candidate's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and will be among the small cadre of people to monitor the results with him as they come in. This is one the loudest signs yet of just how quickly Musk has wormed his way into Trump's inner circle — but it's not surprising. Musk has spent well over $100 million supporting Trump through his [America PAC](), and has attended several of his rallies, gracing attendees with [awkwardly executed]() "USA!" chants and curious, [X-shaped leaps](). There is also real cause for alarm among Trump's opponents. Trump and his supporters are already preempting a stolen election narrative with [baseless claims of widespread voter fraud](). That Trump will be side by side with Musk, who controls a vital informational pipeline in X-formerly-Twitter, and who himself tireless spreads misinformation and [right wing conspiracy theories]() on the platform, may be too close of a pairing for comfort on so decisive a night. ## Love-Hate While Musk has been undergoing a rightward turn for years now, his impending night with Trump can be whiplash-inducing to those who have followed his story so far. When Trump was last in office, Musk famously [stormed out of his positions on two of Trump's advisory councils](), more or less decrying the sitting president as a climate change denier. The two have [subsequently gone back and forth](), sometimes with good things to say about each other and sometimes bad. But these days, beyond all the fundraising and cheerleading he's doing for the man, Musk's devotion to the Trump project seems unquestionable. He may even have a role in Trump's administration — perhaps informally, or perhaps as [the head of a dubious Department of Government Efficiency]() — if Trump triumphs tonight. **More on Elon Musk:** *[Elon Musk Engaged in Secretive "Emergency" Project to Alter Pennsylvania Ballots After They’re Cast]()* ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()