Video went viral Tuesday night time of President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk doing the signature “Trump dance” collectively whereas ringing in 2025.
Trump and Musk had been noticed doing the president-elect’s jerky, arm-pumping dance routine to the Village Folks basic “YMCA” at Mar-a-Lago, with incoming first girl Melania Trump additionally grooving to the music.
Trump’s dancing at rallies, marked by its humorous simplicity, has turn into a success with supporters and has even been emulated by celebrating athletes in school soccer, the NFL, boxing and UFC.
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The video of the boys in tuxes dancing on the finish of a triumphant 12 months for Trump was a success with supporters on-line. It was additionally a reminder that Musk, whose affect in Trump’s orbit and standing because the world’s richest individual retains him within the headlines, is staying near the person who shall be president in three weeks.
Trump lately sided with Musk amid a MAGA base spat over immigration and the place of international staff within the U.S. labor market.
Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who’ve been tapped by Trump to steer his Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), argued final month that American tradition has not prioritized training sufficient, and due to this fact that international staff are wanted for tech corporations like Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla.
Many tech corporations have embraced the H-1B visa program, which permits U.S. corporations to rent international staff in specialty occupations, however critics of this system say H-1B holders are sometimes chosen over U.S. residents for jobs.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on New Yr’s Eve at Mar-A-Lago membership on December 31, 2024 in Palm Seashore, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Photographs)
Trump mentioned that he believed in this system and had at all times favored the visas.
After a report that Trump was rising irritated with Musk’s fixed presence and headline-making, former White Home aide Hogan Gidley informed Fox Information on Monday that it was a non-story.
“Look, it’s obvious that Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and others have good relationships with Donald Trump,” Gidley mentioned. “The media like to stir things up and try and create rifts where there aren’t any rifts.”
Trump spoke to reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night time and predicted 2025 could be a “great year.”
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President-elect Donald Trump and his spouse Melania Trump arrive on New Yr’s Eve at his Mar-A-Lago Membership on December 31, 2024 in Palm Seashore, Florida. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Photographs)
“I think we’re going to do fantastically well as a country,” he mentioned. “We’re going to bring it back. It has to be brought back. People are not respecting our country very much, and they are going to respect us a lot. I think a lot of progress has been made over the last five weeks. It’s been pretty amazing when you look at what’s happened. There’s a whole light all over our world, not just our country. There are lot of very happy people.”
Requested if he had any New Yr’s resolutions for 2025, he mentioned, “I just want people to be happy, healthy and well.”
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Fox Information Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
