Melania Trump Objected To Prominent Guest Sleeping Over At White House: Book – HuffPost
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The first lady reportedly pushed back at her husband’s bromantic bud bunking at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost
First lady Melania Trump apparently wasn’t too keen on sleeping under the same roof as Elon Musk, the Daily Beast reported Monday based on information in the new book “Regime Change.”
The book recounts how “then-DOGE head Elon Musk asked Trump if he could sleep at the White House. Donald Trump agreed. Melania did not,” the Daily Beast wrote.
Her objection was overruled, with Musk spending several nights in the Lincoln Bedroom.
“Other nights he stayed with friends,” Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swift of The New York Times wrote in the book, “though he also told associates he had taken to using a sleeping bag on the floor of his office in the Eisenhower Building.”
Musk has previously said it was Trump who asked him over and that the president gave him a tour of the Lincoln Bedroom while encouraging him to get ice cream in the kitchen.
“He’s actually a very good host,” Musk said.
Their relationship may not be as cozy as it was when Musk began his cost-cutting rampage through the federal government as DOGE boss.
Their public feuding, which included a back-and-forth over Musk’s criticism of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” erupted in 2025. But Musk indicated in early 2026 that there was some repair work happening when he shared a photo of himself dining with the president and the first lady at Mar-a-Lago.
The two are also loosely connected through a recent stock venture by Musk.
The initial public offering of Musk’s SpaceX company reportedly was expected to reap financial gain for many in the Trump administration. The IPO helped turn Musk into a trillionaire, although the stock price has since fallen.
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