Trump Is Bragging To Friends About How He’s Ripping Off Elon Musk

Donald Trump may be getting annoyed with Elon Musk as reports indicate, but he’s not going to kick him to the curb any time soon. Part of the reason that Trump is keeping Musk around is because Musk is paying a cool $2,000 a night to sleep in a cottage at Mar-a-Lago, so Trump is making money off of his presence. New reports suggest that Trump is bragging to his friends about how much he’s charging Musk, which honestly isn’t even that much. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Reports have come out this week suggesting from insiders close to Donald Trump that the President-elect is of course, growing, annoyed, frustrated, and angry with Elon Musk. He doesn't like the fact that Elon Musk is getting all the credit for everything. Doesn't like the fact that everybody's every day talking about Heon Musk. Musk has taken over the spotlight and Trump is relegated to basically a supporting character in this movie we call American politics. So Trump is annoyed, but he will never kick Elon Musk to the curb for three very specific reasons. First one's obvious. Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, and that comes with a hell of a lot of power. So Trump's not gonna get rid of him because of that Second reason Musk owns Twitter, right? That that is basically the public forum for the globe. So Trump doesn't wanna him off because that's a very powerful outlet.

And the third reason is the weirdest one of all, because according to reports insiders close to Donald Trump have said that Donald Trump is now bragging about how much he is charging Elon Musk to stay at the Nyam cottage just a couple hundred feet away from the main residence at Mar-a-Lago. Here is what one insider said. Mr. Trump has bragged to people that Mr. Musk, the world's richest man, is renting one of the residential spaces at Mar-a-Lago. It is unclear how much Mr. Musk will ultimately end up paying for the cottage, which historically has rented for at least $2,000 a night according to a person with knowledge of the fees.

So, Trump's mad at Musk, doesn't like him taking over, doesn't like Democrats calling him President Musk, but, I'm getting $2,000 a night from him. So you know, I'm gonna keep him around even though he sparked a MAGA civil war that now threatens everything that I'm hoping to have when I take office for $2,000 a night. Um, listen, $2,000 a night is not a small amount of money, okay? But I will say, I will be totally honest here. I've stayed in hotels that cost more than $2,000 a night. Not, not frequently. I've done it twice in my life, and me and my wife, we saved up in order to do that. But we wanted, you know, huge lavish vacation. One of 'em, uh, we had a suite at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, and one of them was a, uh, you know, very nice, uh, uh, three bedroom suite on a Disney property in Orlando. And those were all more than $2,000 a night. So I can afford that. And I'm not rich. I'm not a millionaire. But Trump is bragging to people that the world's

Richest man is paying him $2,000 a night to stay on his properties. Donald, do you not see the opportunity that lie in front of you right now? He's the richest man in the planet. He wants to be next to you, dude. You could charge him $200,000 a night and he's gonna pay it, and he's not even gonna miss the money. If ever there were an opportunity for you to engage your grifting ways, this is it, bud. Like, just do it. Why not? You could charge him $2 million a night and it's not even gonna put a dent in his net worth. So I gotta tell you, of all the things we have seen Donald Trump try to rip off from his supporters, you know, selling them cologne, the sneakers, the mugshots, all of that garbage, he's willing to rip off the people who don't have any money. And then you finally get the world's richest man on your property and you're charging him a rate that even a guy like me could afford. That is just pathetic. Donald, I expected better from you. I really did. We have seen you gouge everybody else that stays on your properties and you got the one guy that wouldn't even notice, wouldn't even care if you gouged him and you're charging him the lowest possible rate. That's just sad.