Melania Trump ‘Glad to Have’ Elon Musk as ‘Babysitter’ for Trump
Melania Trump doesn’t mind just how joined at the hip Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump are, even going so far as to pin him as his “babysitter.”
The former and future first lady has “no issues” with Musk and views his relationship with Trump, and his temporary tenure at Mar-A-Lago, as a positive, People magazine reported, citing sources close to the Trump family.
“Melania is glad to have a babysitter for Donald, and she will find some kind of project to team up with him herself if he stays around,” a Palm Beach source told the outlet. “Melania has her own life and isn’t bothered by political dealings her husband has with others,” they continued. “But so far, she has no issues with Musk.”
Another social source told People that Melania is in “good spirits and does her own thing,” adding that she is “not bothered” by Musk constantly hanging around.
“For the most part, she is not involved with subjects her husband is discussing with Musk or anyone else hanging around him,” the source continued. “Right now, Trump has a lot of people wanting things from him. She is all too aware of that.”
Echoing the above, another political source from Palm Beach told People that Melania “is glad to have her husband busy with his work” and that “so far Musk is part of that mindset.”
The Daily Beast reached out to a representative of Melania’s for comment.
Since his fierce endorsement of the president-elect during his 2024 campaign trail and his appointment as co-leader of his proposed Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has been hanging around at Mar-a-Lago “nearly every single day,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported.
The New York Times reported last week that Musk was renting out one of the cottages on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property that is several hundred feet away from the main house. Although the pair have been something of a dynamic duo over the past few months, trouble in paradise has struck, with New York Times journalist and “Trump whisperer” Maggie Haberman sharing in the latest episode of Kara Swisher’s podcast On: “Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot.”
“I don’t anticipate that Musk is going to have an office in the West Wing,” Haberman added. “I don’t even know that he will have a blue pass to wander around.”
