By The Babylon Bee | Created at 2025-01-20 20:35:19 | Updated at 2025-01-20 23:13:31
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The incoming Trump administration fielded an odd request today after Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk called President Donald Trump to ask if they could make a blanket fort in the Lincoln Bedroom tonight.
According to reports, the two men heading up the new Department of Government Efficiency proposed building the fort using the presidential linens because it would be "so fire" and "absolutely radical."
"I made them a deal," Trump said when asked to comment on the request. "I told them that if they get all their work done and clean up the government like I asked, they can make a fort. I said, 'All right, go ahead, but you need to get your homework done first.' Let me tell you, folks, that's a great deal right there. I even said that I'd help them make the fort. I'll be big. The biggest blanket fort in White House history. I make the best forts — big, beautiful forts. Everybody loves my blanket forts."
Ramaswamy and Musk's request had reportedly been initially blocked by several other members of Trump's cabinet, especially Marco Rubio, who said that he wouldn't help them ask Trump unless they let him help make the fort and play in it too, a condition Musk and Ramaswamy denied.
At publishing time, Ramaswamy and Musk had also asked permission to have a pizza party and Diablo IV tournament in the White House Situation Room.
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