The One Guest Melania Didn’t Want Staying At The White House - But She Was Overruled

First Lady Melania Trump reportedly objected to hosting 1 peculiarly high-profile overnight impermanent astatine nan White House — but she was overruled.

The alleged snub is elaborate successful Regime Change: Inside nan Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, a caller book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

The book, based connected hundreds of interviews and rich | pinch insights into Trump family dynamics and argumentation debates, has reportedly near immoderate White House insiders uneasy. It was published Tuesday. According to an excerpt obtained by The Daily Beast, Elon Musk, who led nan DOGE task force, asked President Donald Trump if he could clang astatine nan White House.

The president agreed, but nan first woman was against nan idea, nan outlet reports. She objected but was yet overruled. The SpaceX and Tesla laminitis went connected to walk aggregate nights successful nan Lincoln Bedroom, located successful nan backstage residence.

“Other nights he stayed pinch friends,” nan book states. “Though he besides told associates he had taken to utilizing a sleeping container connected nan level of his agency successful nan Eisenhower Building.”

The Independent has contacted nan White House for comment.

During his four-month stint arsenic a typical authorities employee, Musk oversaw galore layoffs crossed aggregate national agencies and pushed fund cuts. A awesome Trump philanthropist successful 2024, Musk promised to guidelines retired bureaucratic discarded and prevention nan authorities $2 trillion — but federal spending really rose.

In May 2025, he told reporters he “sometimes” stayed overnight astatine nan White House, while insisting it was only astatine nan president’s invitation.

“I conjecture we’re bully friends, and we’ll beryllium connected Air Force One aliases Marine One, and past he’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to enactment over?’ and I’m like, ‘Sure,’” Musk said. “I didn’t petition it, to beryllium sure.”

“He’ll really telephone astatine nighttime and opportunity like, ‘By nan way, make judge you get immoderate crystal pick from nan kitchen,’” nan trillionaire said astir Trump.

The adjacent month, Musk near DOGE, an exit that coincided pinch his public falling retired pinch Trump, apparently sparked by nan businessman’s guidance to nan “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Amid nan feud, Musk claimed nan president was successful nan Epstein files, while Trump said Musk had “lost his mind.” More recently, nan 2 look to person mended fences pinch Musk joining Trump connected his whirlwind travel to China.

The first woman is not nan only personification successful nan Trump world to return rumor pinch nan SpaceX founder. In a December 2025 Vanity Fair profile, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles called Musk “an odd, overseas duck” and branded him “an avowed ketamine” user. Axios reported successful April 2025 that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent besides fought pinch Musk successful a “heated shouting match” complete nan IRS.

Beyond nan palace intrigue surrounding White House sleepovers, Haberman and Swan’s caller book besides sheds ray connected Trump’s narration pinch nan first lady.

The brace are reportedly locked successful an interior creation stand-off, which has apparently go a headache for staff.

“The President's redecorating generated specified a flurry of activity that unit often felt caught betwixt nan 2 Trumps, who were nan only statesmanlike mates to regularly usage and support abstracted bedrooms since Richard and Pat Nixon,” nan authors write, according to an excerpt obtained by nan Daily Mail.

The 80-year-old president, who maintains a abstracted chamber from nan first lady, has been known to redecorate while his wife, who spends clip successful New York and Florida, is retired of town.

“Items were spirited from nan second-floor corridor into nan President’s bedroom,” Haberman and Swan write. “Sometimes Trump carried nan objects successful himself, rearranging things crossed nan backstage quarters connected a whim.”

The authors besides revealed a word of endearment that Trump uses for his youngest son, Barron, who is simply a assemblage student successful New York.

Following nan assassination of blimpish commentator, Charlie Kirk, Barron Trump reportedly called his begetter successful a panic, worried that nan president could beryllium targeted next.

“Calm down, honey, calm down,” Trump responded, according to nan book.