How Elon Musk has planted himself almost literally at Trump's doorstep

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Still, Trump has often liked to collect people, and has enjoyed knowing that many of them pay for access to him.
60% : Staying right on the grounds has helped provide Musk with easy access to Trump.
56% : Musk moved into the cottage around Election Day and watched the returns at Mar-a-Lago with Trump.
55% : The cottage being used by Musk has been used over the years by many friends and associates of Trump.
54% : Years ago, former Speaker John Boehner stayed at Banyan with a friend, before Trump became a presidential candidate.
53% : Trump is said to have increased the annual membership fee at Mar-a-Lago to $1 million.
52% : Trump has bragged to people that Musk -- the world's richest man -- is "renting" one of the residential spaces at Mar-a-Lago.
49% : He can drop in on Trump's dinners, such as one he had recently with Musk's rival, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.Musk, who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars in the final months of this year's election cycle to help elect Trump, has attended personnel meetings in the Mar-a-Lago Teahouse, sat in on phone calls with foreign leaders and spent hours with Trump in his office.
47% : But Trump is not known to shy away from income opportunities.
47% : Mar-a-Lago is different, however, in being a for-profit enterprise owned by Trump rather than a private home.
47% : On Friday, in a post on Truth Social that seemed intended as a private communication to Musk, Trump wrote: "Where are you?
45% : In San Francisco, he has been known to stay at the home of David Sacks, a venture capitalist whom Trump nominated recently to be an adviser on cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence.
37% : Musk has been using one of the cottages available for rent on Trump's property at Mar-a-Lago, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post home in Florida that Trump converted into a members-only club and hotel in the 1990s, according to two people with knowledge of the arrangement.
37% : Musk is unlikely to have such unfettered physical access to Trump after the president-elect is sworn in on Jan. 20 in Washington.
31% : Officials at the club do not typically bill guests until the end of their stay, leaving open the possibility that Trump will choose not to charge Musk, or to reduce the size of his bill.

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