Donald Trump and his richest supporter, multibillionaire Elon Musk, gushed about each other and blamed the media for attempting to separate them. During their joint White House interview, the two spoke so highly of one another that Sean Hannity, the interviewer, was moved to remark, "I feel like I'm interviewing two brothers here."

The united front was maintained to reject accusations that Musk’s so-called “Department of Government of efficiency” (Doge) – which has upended huge swaths of the federal bureaucracy in a supposed attempt to find “waste, fraud, and corruption” – is a violation of the US constitution, saying their critics were themselves guilty of this. They also dismissed complaints that Musk, who has billions of dollars in government contracts through his ownership of companies such as SpaceX and Tesla, had serious conflicts of interest that could lead him to skew federal spending in his favor.