The president and his aides have sometimes expressed frustration with Elon Musk, but his advisers say the two remain close.

In a political landscape often defined by shifting alliances and public spectacles, the relationship between tech titan Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has been a captivating saga. Recently, Musk's departure from his advisory role within the Trump administration,

But in terms of the access he had been given, the amount of time he was spending at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate planning for his return to the Oval Office, and Inauguration Day itself, when Musk and other tech leaders,