Trump and Musk deepen their bond with trip to Texas for Starship rocket launch

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : Trump, in his remarks at the black tie event, said Musk's IQ is "about as high as they can get" and praised him as "a really good guy.
69% : "Musk was so heralded by Trump's crowd that he was invited to speak on stage at the event after Trump, in which he spoke of the president-elect's victory like he was his running mate.
64% : Musk was with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort on election night and has spent much of the two weeks since there.
59% : "To top if off, Musk owns the social media company X, formally known as Twitter, which he has harnessed as an influential perch to promote Trump and his agenda.
54% : And it hugged it and just put it down, and there it was," Trump said.
52% : Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media website, while en route to Texas.
51% : Musk joined Trump at a meeting with House Republicans in Washington and sat next to him at an Ultimate Fighting Championship match in New York.
46% : ""He launched a rocket three weeks ago and then he went to Pennsylvania to campaign because he considered this more important than launching rockets that cost billions of dollars," Trump said.
44% : "Trump has the biggest possible regard for people who break the rules and get away with it," said William Galston, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.
43% : he wrote on Tuesday as he shared a warning that entrenched Washington interests are trying to undermine Trump before his inauguration.
42% : He's counseled Trump on nominees for the new administration, joined the president-elect's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and been tapped to co-chair an advisory panel on cutting the size of the federal bureaucracy.
41% : Trump started boasting about Musk's accomplishments at campaign rallies, such as when Starship's reusable rocket booster returned to the launch tower and was caught by mechanical arms.
37% : READ MORE: Iranian official reportedly met with Elon Musk in an apparent effort ease tensions with TrumpEver since Musk began camping out at Mar-a-Lago after the election, there's been speculation over when Trump would grow tired of having him hanging around and giving him advice on running the country.
36% : Before the election, Musk rejected the idea that he was expecting any favors in return for supporting Trump in the presidential race.
34% : ""Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America," Musk wrote on social media.
34% : But Musk swiftly endorsed Trump after the former president survived an assassination attempt in July.
26% : Musk spent around $200 million to help Trump beat Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race, and he's been given unparalleled access.
20% : "However, Trump has not gone anywhere without Musk in the two weeks since beating Harris.
15% : Two years ago, Trump was mocking Musk in stump speeches and Musk was saying it was time for Trump to "hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.
14% : Trump announces Musk and Ramaswamy will lead outside advisory group 'Department of Government Efficiency'The relationship between Trump and Musk was not always so close.

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