‘Jubilant scenes’: Inside Donald Trump’s election party
Miranda Devine and Elon Musk have shared a glimpse into what has been unfolding at Donald Trump’s election party.
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Australian journalist Miranda Devine provided an insight into the “jubilant scenes” at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago watch party as he observed the states turn red at his Florida mansion.
The columnist based in New York said Trump arrived in the gilt panelled grand ballroom at Mar-a-Lago about 8.45pm and sat alongside businessmen Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, and Dana White, the CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
“The mood was buoyant … bordering on jubilant as the good news rolled in for Trump,” Ms Devine said.
“He watched Fox News on the big screen in front of him and kept twisting around to watch the glum faces of the CNN anchors on the screen behind him.
“Later in the night he had the volume turned up loud on Fox and stood at his seat watching the results and working his phone while occasionally talking to White.
“He left the ballroom at 12.11am and went back to his residence to freshen up for an hour before leaving for the nearby convention centre where 5000 supporters and media were waiting.”
Ms Devine also snapped a photo of Donald Trump as he watched the screen with his supporters, posting it to X, with the words: “Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago standing up to watch the results come in on Fox News while working his phone.”
“Occasionally he turns around to watch the increasingly grim faces on CNN.”
Musk, a billionaire and the President’s richest supporter who gave away free money to Mr Trump supporters at his rallies, was also tweeting from inside the watch party.
The owner of Tesla and social media platform X posted a picture of Trump at his Mar-a-Lago party online and said: “Mar-a-Lago” The future is gonna be so [fire emoji]”.
He also posted a superimposed picture of himself carrying a sink into the Oval Office, with the caption, “Let that sink in”.
He published a similar image when he took control of X, previously known as Twitter, when he was pictured holding an actual sink as he walked into the building.
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