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Elon Musk and Donald Trump are two of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men. Musk helped Trump regain the White House and now wants to shake up the federal government.
Listening to his mother, Maye, you'd think they were a pair of toddlers on a playdate. "They just seem to be having fun, a lot of fun, and that's nice for both of them to have fun," she said in an interview on Fox Business this week.
Elon Musk, 53, is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the richest man on the planet with a net worth close to $350 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Trump, 78, is the president-elect of the world's biggest economy, a real-estate tycoon, reality TV star — and a convicted felon.
Elon "really respects him a lot and is really happy that there's a future for America now," Maye said.
The model and dietitian said she's only briefly seen the two men together as she lives in New York. The pair have been hanging out at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida where Musk has joined calls with other world leaders and weighed in on cabinet picks. They also attended a SpaceX launch in Texas this month.
Many mothers champion their children and sing their praises, and Maye is no exception. She echoed her son's scathing criticism of the "dishonest Democrat media," and said they would be "trying to break up the relationship" between him and the incoming president.
Maye said that calling Elon "wealthy" or a "billionaire" was "degrading," and she thinks of him as "the genius of the world."
She also predicted that, as the co-chief of a new Department of Government Efficiency, he would easily eliminate government waste. Just as he did at Twitter, now X, he would mandate workers return to the office and fire employees who fail to point out anything worthwhile they've done in the past week, May added.
Elon is clearly close to his mother. He's posted pictures of them, sent her heart emojis on X, taken her to several high-profile events, and brought her on during his opening monologue when hosting "Saturday Night Live" in 2021.
Similarly, Maye has shared childhood photos of Musk and repeatedly said how proud she is of him.
It may be little surprise to see Maye embracing Elon's budding bromance with Trump, but some will be amused to hear her talking about the tech visionary and the leader of the free world like they're little kids at a birthday party who've bonded over a shared love of bouncy castles.
