On Tuesday night, a video of President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk doing the signature “Trump dance” together went viral, ringing in the year 2025.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk were seen doing a jerky, arm-raised president-elect dance to the Village People classic “YMCA” at Mar-a-Lago, and the president-elect, first lady Melania Mr. Trump was also in high spirits along with the music.
Trump's humorous simplicity of the dance at his rallies has become popular among his supporters and has even been imitated in praise of athletes in college football, the NFL, boxing and the UFC.
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A video of men in tuxedos dancing at the end of President Trump's winning year was a big hit with his supporters online. It's also a reminder that Musk, who regularly makes headlines for his influence and status as the world's richest man, is close to the man who will become president in three weeks. Ta.
Trump recently sided with Musk amid the MAGA base controversy over immigration and the status of foreign workers in the U.S. labor market.
musk and Vivek Ramaswami, Selected by President Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), they argued last month that American culture doesn't value education enough, and tech companies like Musk's SpaceX and Tesla don't have foreign workers. argued that it was necessary.
Many tech companies have adopted the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. companies to hire foreign workers in specialized jobs, but critics of the program argue that the U.S. They claim that H-1B holders are often chosen over people.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)
President Trump said he believes in the program and has always supported visas.
After reporting Former White House aide Hogan Gidley told Fox News on Monday that that's not the case, saying Trump is increasingly frustrated by Musk's constant presence and headline-making.
“It's clear that people like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have a good relationship with Donald Trump,” Gidley said. “The media likes to stir things up and try to create cracks where there aren't any.”
President Trump said To the reporter Speaking at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night, he predicted 2025 would be a “great year.”
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President-elect Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)
“I think we can have great success as a country,” he said. “We're going to get it back. We have to get it back. People don't have a lot of respect for our country, but they're going to respect us a lot. A lot of progress in the last five weeks. “If you look at what's happened, it's amazing, it's spreading light, not just in our country, but all over the world. There are a lot of very happy people. ”
Asked if he had any New Year's resolutions for 2025, he said: “I just want people to be happy, healthy and well.”
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Fox News Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
